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CSPAN Washington Journal July 8, 2016

The officer being comforted at the emergency room at Baylor Medical Center in dallas. This is in the midst of a mass shooting of colleagues at the being calleders, the deadliest day for Law Enforcement in this country since 9 11. We want to get your reaction this morning to the shootings in dallas and the issues that have and ining on this week recent weeks and months around the country. Emocrats call 2027488000 republicans, your number 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. If not by phone this morning, we welcome your comments on social media. This started about 9 00 last night in dallas. The morning news has equipped to that has morning news has a quick synopsis. Six officers and one civilian wounded. One suspect was dead in a garage after antro College Shootout with police. Four Dallas Police officers and t officer killed. Six other officers wounded. They are calling it a. Oordinated attack a man who exchanged gunfire with police in the el centro garage was reported that just before 3 00 a. M. The deadliest day for Law Enforcement since 9 11 when 72 officers died. SaiDallas Police chief snipers with rifles shot 11 bystanders from elevated positions. President obama reacted to the situation in dallas from poland. [video clip] i spoke with the mayor of dallas. I told him that the federal government will provide whatever as itance dallas may need deals with this tremendous threat. We still dont know the facts. What we do know is there has been a vicious, calculated attack on Law Enforcement. Police in dallas were on duty doing their jobs, keeping people safe during a peaceful protest. These Law Enforcement officers and nearly a dozen officers were shot. Five were killed. Others were wounded. We are praying for the recovery. Rawlings, i tell every american that we are horrified by these events and we stand united with the people in the Police Department in dallas. According to police, there are multiple suspects. Monday on themore come about their twisted motivations. There is no possible justification for any violence against Law Enforcement. The fbi is already in touch with the Dallas Police and anyone se senselessthe murders will be held accountable. Justice will be done. I will have more to say about this as the facts become more clear. For now, let me just say that even yesterday, i spoke about concerned as all americans about Racial Disparities in the canal Justice System. Ourso said yesterday that Police Avenue store nearly difficult job. In the criminal Justice System. I also said yesterday that our do an extraordinarily difficult job. Protecting us and protecting our communities. Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices they make for us. People know that when are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately, it makes attacks like these more deadly and more tragic. Ahead, we will have to consider those realities as well. Isthe meantime, today focus on the victims and their families. They are heartbroken. The entire city of dallas is grieving. Feel thisoss america loss to their core. I would ask all americans to say a prayer for these officers and their families, keep them in and as a nation, ours remember to express profound gratitude to our men and women in blue every day. One more tweet from the Dallas Morning News. Tyrone in north carolina. Democratic line. Caller it is a shame what happened. For this to go on is wrong. Fox news is already playing politics with it. It is just bad. We need to stop laying politics with peoples lives. Said it was a terrorist attack and theyre are blaming president obama for what he said this morning. We need to pull together as people regardless. We need to stop this mess. We are human beings, we are people and we need to pull together and put politics aside. Host you are watching video of the moments when this first started in dallas, texas. It was around 9 00 last night. N in moran, ohio. Independent. Good morning. Im here. I dont know why everyone is surprised. We just saw video on facebook of a fouryearold comforting her mother because she saw her boyfriend get shot by the cops. This is insane. The system needs to be torn down and rebuilt. We have a system of White Supremacy in this country and it shows every single day. People need to stop talking around the issue and get for real. When you talk about rebuilding the system, what do you mean, exactly . Caller tear it down, take these Police Departments apart. We cannot have this anymore. You cannot be policing areas where you dont know who the people are. You dont know who tyrone is. You cannot go up to tyrone and arrest him and think he is selling drugs because he doesnt look like you. We live in a racist society and it shows every single day. Im sorry for those Police Officers who got killed. What can we do when we live in a gotem where black people can writing around and get shot riding around and get shot . We have to start telling the truth and being honest. Why supremacy rules the day in the United States. Tim in tuscaloosa, alabama on the democrat line. Caller good morning. Night andned last what happened the previous days with the killing of two black men by Police Officers. I understand the anger some people feel toward the police. But, i dont agree with going out, shooting and attacking and killing police. Police now are going to be more peopleive towards black because of that. Thing, i would like to say that a lot of police, i feel some of them are kkk members. Killcan go and harass and and do things to buy people. Host how do you know that . Caller i dont know that. I said that is the way i feel. Host i see. Caller one more thing about whats going on since obamas been president , i cant think of any time that theres been more black people shot and killed by Police Officers. I would like all young viewers watching this program to pull up the name natasha mckenna. She died in fairfax, virginia. She was a black woman in the jail and six white Police Officers pulled her out of that naked todcuffed her the concrete floor and taste her until she died. I would like all your viewers to pull that up and look at that and then you know why people feel the way they do. Host we will do this for the entire two hour washington journal today. Your reactions to the shootings in dallas. We will talk with an activist in baltimore with the black lives matter organization. Plenty of time for this this morning. Dallas morning news has this editorial. Dallas must wait from this wakemare united must. Om this nightmare united we have jeff on the line from pennsylvania. Publican. Republican. Caller hello. To be about what people feel and not statistics. The tally in 2015, 1001 people were killed by the police in america. 215 where black. When hundred 63 were hispanic. Ere black. R 163 were hispanic. Were white. Once again, it is what you feel, not the statistics. The media is culpable in this. They helped create this hate because they get off on it. Violenceterracial every year is black on white. Whites do not go into the streets in protest. White lights dont matter. Dont matter. Untold white people understand they are the victims, they will be in serious trouble. Respond to how you say the media created this. How so . Joe. i watch morning every day, they sit on their high horse and health and pop about racism in america. Spend days talking about an egregious hate crime committed against whites by blacks. They will not talk about that , the woman killed by an illegal alien until you start caring about your own people and a sense ofning to brotherhood, we will continue to be the victims. We are the victims. There are more white people in this country, so of course, that is the reason. Host candy on the line from ke in iowa. In idiot. Jeff is an media is inciting racism. Im afraid to say hello to my black neighbor. I dont know what he or she is going to do. I been told since i was small that they are dangerous. The third problem is men. You ever noticed that men want to take away our guns why is the first reaction to hit or heard something . I see color. I love our differences. It is hard to engage you when i dont know how to say hello from fear of offending you because white,ia says, ok, i am i cannot change that, im also a woman, i cant and wont change that in the media is telling me im wrong. Im not allowed to engage you on a human level for fear that you might hit or hurt me. Or, i might say the wrong thing. Im comes to killing using a flyswatter, not a hammer or gun. Host chris writes on twitter front page of the New York Post this friday morning. Five killed in antipolice protest. Says the people who did this are not only in human, but also very stupid. Unless their intent is to incite , no goodwill,e will come ofod this. We will read more facebook postings and tweets later. Mark has been waiting on the line patiently in california. Thank you for getting up early. Up to find out what had happened last night. , it has beens coming. Have beensides dividing us for 4. 5 decades. Vet. Vietnam i never got paid for my time in service. Awayhad the aclu turned me if i try and go through the they are soce, programmed and conditioned to work through policy and procedures that i cant get justice because of bigotry. The only real problem i see today is a lack of integrity in because bothp sides have sold out to the corporate entities that are the basis of our economy and the militaryindustrial complex. Host what is the role of our leaders now . Caller this has created so much distrust, especially from veterans. Last year or early this year, 50 million tove honor us veterans. Shouldnt they do that out of arer own pocket if they truly honored to have us . I have one more point. 40 of our Homeless Population are veterans. How does that honor any of them . People wholl the appreciate whats going on, but into leadership begins to spin that 50 million on the individual whos already given everything hes got to spend his lifetime on the street and the homeless we are asking our leadership to lead. Dont vote for either one of these two parties. Host tom is on the line from atlanta. Good morning to you. Is, first ofaction all, i feel like the ku klux klan infiltrated the Police Department. The way they are slaughtering these black guys, it is ridiculous. Most of the guys getting slaughtered dont even have weapons on them. White supremacy has been going on for 400 years. Every time a terrorist come out and a black person get killed, the first thing they want to say is terrorist, terrorist come a trump dont donald say anything about what hes going to do to stop this its just not right, the way they are killing these black people. , the focus was on the black and thew the focus sympathy is going towards the cops. Its just going back and forth. Do, they need to needed to break down these Police Departments and get the cops out of these cars all they do is right around ride around. The need to get out and walk these beats. They need to break down the Police Departments and find out whats going on and get to know their neighborhoods, find out what type of neighborhoods they are dealing with and go from there. Host you think that could work, thomas . Caller yes. , someighborhood im in poor, some middleclass, most of the black neighborhoods, all you ee is two white cops riding in a black neighborhood. All they have to do is get out of the cars and change the protocol. Host john from cottage built ville, west virginia. Caller first of all, i want to say my thoughts and prayers to everybody in dallas and around our country with all the episodes that have been going on. Yes,e need to realize, in the shootings with the black males, people need to take the uniform off. Beings. Human men,are white men, black black and white women in these uniforms. You need to focus on the people in these uniforms. Department needs to dealup their ability to with their Police Officers. They have a lot of stress issues, have a lot of angry conflicts and things like that. I dont think they have the right system to deal with this. They just dont have the system. If they get any shooting, ok, yes, they have somebody there to calm them down and talk to them, but an everyday situation, it can be somebody saying something wrong to them that would trigger a bit of anger and and they take that anger and you have these incidents with these other men that werent doing anything if they look at them wrong or something, that is triggering what happened the other day. The Police Department needs to set up a system to interview these guys to make sure that they are on the right page for all the citizens in their cities world. Tes around the this is a big problem. Whether they are white, black, hispanic, it dont matter. Everyone one of them has an issue that needs to be addressed. Police officers are getting the person. Age because of a on the dallas thing, i am a veteran and i have talked to other friends of mine that are hunter. I am an active i have rifles, but i dont understand why we have to sell assault rifles. Host john, thank you for calling. We will watch the president to see if you has any further statements. The house of representatives convenes in an hour and a half. One of the items is an opioid drug bill. Right at 9 00, we will hear members talk about this and gun issues in general. There have been doing that all week. They have been doing that all week. We will watch out to see what the president ial candidates have decided that have to say today. Hillary clinton and joe biden in pennsylvania at noon today. Is the Dallas Morning News. John from liverpool, new york is up now. Democratic line. Caller this is what it comes down to. Blue lives matter more than white lives, black lives, brown lives you start killing police, youve got problems with a lot of people. That is the bottom line. Blue lights are more important. They protect us all. Im disgusted with these black people calling up saying that the police is all kkk. Theres no more racist people on this earth than black people. Host kj in north florida. Republican. Caller good morning. I just wanted to talk about i agree with that lady calling earlier about the supremacy and everything. Caller talking about statistics about People Killed that is an incomplete statistics because we want to know how many of those people were armed when they were shot by police. All, when dylann roof didt up that black church, th the media come out and call it a terrorist act . No, they did not. In california, when they shot up , did theycap place call it a terrorist attack . It only seems when it fits a particular agenda whether it is white or gay that it becomes a a terroristoup, attack. When the victims are black, it is never a terrorist, it is always something else. Are these people who shot at the police in dallas going to get the same treatment when the cops shoot black people . Are we going to look into the backgrounds of the cops . See how many false arrests, how force lets look at the backgrounds of the officers. Saye officers are able to i feared for my life. The black i was reaching, so i shot. Can a black person say, i feared for my life . Im going to shirt first shoot first. Host eric calling now from middletown, new york. Independent caller. Caller clearly, a lot of people are indicating, saying it builds to a real head. We are in a manner of excuse making or justification people are drawing lines, clear good guys and bad guys. Im more interested in the thing that would bring a pragmatic result. Host interesting you bring that up. Let me read this tweet is there a political solution . Caller i would not say political. There is a procedural solution to it. There are two things that could be immediately brought to bear my father was a cop. Cops lookede when like her father. Beer bellied guys with cheesy mustaches. Not these green rejects looking hopped up these marine rejects on roys looking onkick somebodys rejects roids looking to kick somebodys butt. We can institute this across the we see in a lot of european nations, police, Law Enforcement professionals are just that, professionals. They are licensed and they have to carry things like Liability Insurance and be individually accountable to where they will directly and individually feel the consequences of their own actions. If that comes down to where they have to consider their own ,onduct affecting their family roid the road rage rage aspect will go away and the other has will prevail. The cooler heads will prevail. He is totally amped up and there is no way he isnt going to overreact. Host austan from frederick, maryland. Thank you for waiting. Your reaction to dallas and the week in general. Caller thank you for cspan. My response is mainly to the gentleman who called a few minutes ago about statistics based off a guardian poll or Something Like that. A lot of people feel like this or reverseoblem racism almost where itnamericans are more seems so prevalent now because of technology, really. Undocumentedthe unlawful arrests and shootings that have happened in the past. Up until now, they had not been documented. Iphone to an livestream it for the masses to see. As far as how to address this, i dont know how you would fix that. Saying,nie sanders was you need to bring in Police Officers from that community. It sounds like a lot of these Police Officers are coming from who knows where, they dont know who or what they are working with and they are just afraid to be working in their communities, so the first reaction they have is to pull out the gun. Eight week from ted cruz. From ted cruz. Here is one of the photos in thed this morning Washington Post this morning. According to the post which has a new report, several have as about stat

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