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                                                                   Call for Calm

U.S President Barack Obama, left, speaks with Spain’s acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy during a media availability in Madrid, Spain, at the Palacio de la Moncloa,
Sunday, July 10, 2016.

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Obama Urges Greater Respect, Understanding After Shootings 

DARLENE SUPERVILLE                Spain as president.              gained national promi-          ficers.                         munities feel and not just
KATHLEEN HENNESSEY                Obama’s appeal for great-        nence following earlier         He was invited to speak by      dismiss these protests and
Associated Press                  er understanding from op-        deaths of mostly unarmed        Mayor Mike Rawlings, the        these complaints as politi-
MADRID (AP) — President           posing sides of the emo-         black men at the hands of       White House said.               cal correctness,” he said.
Barack Obama on Sunday            tionally charged debate          police across the U.S.          Obama repeated Sunday           “It is in the interest of police
urged respect and restraint       over police practices fol-       Obama, in his remarks,          that most  U.S. police of-      officers that their commu-
from Americans angered            lowed the weekend ar-            urged protesters to rec-        ficers do a good job, and       nities trust them,” Obama
by the killing of black men       rests of scores of people in     ognize that police officers     said rhetoric portraying        said.
by police, saying anything        Louisiana and Minnesota          have a difficult job.           them as doing otherwise         Some of Obama’s crit-
less does a “disservice to        who protested the shoot-         “Whenever those of us who       does little to build support    ics have accused him of
the cause” of ridding the         ing deaths by police of          are concerned about fail-       for eliminating racial bias     helping create an environ-
criminal justice system of        black men in both states         ures of the criminal justice    from the criminal justice sys-  ment for attacks on law
racial bias.                      last week.                       system attack police, you       tem.                            enforcement by blaming
He also urged law enforce-        Those deaths were fol-           are doing a disservice to       “Maintaining a truthful         their conduct in previous
ment to treat seriously           lowed by a stunning sniper       the cause,” Obama said,         and serious and respectful      incidents and sympathizing
complaints that they are          attack last Thursday in Dal-     the fourth straight day that    tone is going to help mo-       with Black Lives Matter and
heavy-handed and intoler-         las that killed five police of-  he has commented on the         bilize American society to      other groups that complain
ant, particularly toward mi-      ficers and wounded seven         distressing chain of events     bring about real change,”       about racial unfairness in
norities.                         others as they watched           at home.                        Obama said.                     the justice system.
“I’d like all sides to listen to  over a peaceful protest of       The president’s remarks on      The president also called       The president traveled to
each other,” Obama said           the week’s earlier shoot-        the issue likely foreshad-      for balance from law en-        Spain after attending a
in response to a reporter’s       ings.                            owed the message he will        forcement.                      NATO summit in Poland, but
question after he met with        Among those arrested in          deliver to the public Tues-     “I would hope that police       the sheer horror over the
Spain’s acting prime minis-       Louisiana was an activist        day in Dallas, when he ad-      organizations are also re-      killings overshadowed most
ter, Mariano Rajoy, during        prominent in the Black Lives     dresses an interfaith memo-     spectful of the frustrations    of his public appearances
an abbreviated first visit to     Matter movement, which           rial service for the slain of-  that people in these com-       in both countries. q