USA

Obama: America is not a divided country

After the deadly shots were fired in Dallas, President Obama has called the American people to hold Together. Racial tensions could not be solved overnight, the President said in Warsaw.

“The actions of the Individual may not stand for all of us,” stated Obama. America is not divided, as some claimed, he explained at a press conference following the NATO summit in Warsaw.

In the night of Friday, the 25-year-old Micah Johnson in the Texan city of Dallas was shot and killed during a Demonstration against police violence, five police officers and five other and two civilians injured. The occasion for the Demonstration of the death of two African Americans in various US Federal States shots within 48 hours by the Police.

Investigations revolve around Motove of the offender

Obama described the assassin as a “crazy.” The investigation is currently focusing on his motives. According to the findings of the police, he was the sole shooter, it would give accomplice or accomplices, as the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, said.

As a probable motive for the crime is
Hatred of White people. On Statements of the assassin in negotiations with police officers before his death, and Facebook entries indicate where Johnson’s sympathies for the black extremists groups expressed. The police also found in his apartment each lot
Weapons and para-military Material, including bomb-making – as well as protective vests, ammunition and a manual for the armed struggle.

Fear of further riots

Obama is expected at the beginning of the week in Dallas. He shortened, therefore, a Visit to Spain in connection to the NATO summit in Poland. In the USA, there is growing concern that a further escalation of the violence. In many U.S. cities are scheduled over the weekend, a new protest actions against police violence.

uh/cr (dpa, afp, rtr)