WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama will find himself in an all-too-familiar place when he leads a tribute to more lives ended by a man with a gun.
Obama will try Tuesday to help Dallas begin to heal after five of its police officers were slain in the line of duty. They were targeted by an Army veteran-turned-sniper during what Obama denounced as a “vicious, calculated and despicable attack” by a “demented” individual.
Obama is preparing to address a memorial service for the officers. They were killed while guarding a peaceful protest against the police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota last week. Obama’s spokesman says the president hopes to offer Dallas “some measure of comfort.”
Former President George W. Bush, a Dallas resident, is also scheduled to speak.
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