Obama to police: Dallas shooting was a 'hate crime'

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/obama-dallas-police-shooting-hate-225390


Obama to police: Dallas shooting was a 'hate crime'

By Sarah Wheaton

07/11/16 06:26 PM EDT

Updated 07/11/16 06:35 PM EDT
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President Barack Obama on Monday described the Dallas shooting as a "hate crime" against police, according to a top law enforcement representative in the meeting with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

“One really striking thing the president said in his opening remarks was that the shooting in Dallas in many ways was strikingly parallel to the Dylann Roof shooting in Charleston in the sense that it was a hate crime,” said Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, in an interview with POLITICO.

During the nearly two-hour session, Obama told Pasco and seven other police association officials that if Micah Johnson were still alive, he would have been prosecuted for a hate crime, “which is quite a precedent from our standpoint,” Pasco said. Hate crime prosecutions are seen as a recognition that victims were targeted because of their race, religion, or some other characteristic, and they can carry greater penalties.

Pasco, who has been critical of the administration’s tone toward police, said he “very much” appreciated the remark.

“At the end of the meeting I asked him to reiterate that publicly,” Pasco said.

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I am pretty shocked the left went there. I know they didn't want to.

But if this was not a "hate crime", then they do not (and should not) exist. They shouldn't anyway.

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