{"id":21720,"date":"2016-07-17T15:48:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T22:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=21720"},"modified":"2016-07-17T15:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T22:48:05","slug":"president-obama-comments-on-attacks-on-police-officers-in-baton-rouge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=21720","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Comments On Attacks On Police Officers In Baton Rouge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;I condemn, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge.  For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault.  These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society, and they have to stop.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nFNXEH6xI6Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve offered my full support, and the full support of the federal government, to Governor Edwards, Mayor Holden, the Sheriff\u2019s Office, and the Baton Rouge Police Department.  And make no mistake \u2013 justice will be done.<\/p>\n<p>We may not yet know the motives for this attack, but I want to be clear:  there is no justification for violence against law enforcement.  None.  These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one.  They right no wrongs.  They advance no causes.  The officers in Baton Rouge; the officers in Dallas \u2013 they were our fellow Americans, part of our community, part of our country, with people who loved and needed them, and who need us now \u2013 all of us \u2013 to be at our best.<\/p>\n<p>Today, on the Lord\u2019s day, all of us stand united in prayer with the people of Baton Rouge, with the police officers who\u2019ve been wounded, and with the grieving families of the fallen.  May God bless them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;I condemn, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge. For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault. These are attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fullscreen-capture-7172016-34513-PM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}