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President Obama: Violence against police ‘is completely unacceptable’

By Mark Berman September 1  Follow @markberman
A photo of slain Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth is seen over other law enforcement officers during a news conference Saturday. (Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle via AP)

President Obama called the widow of the Texas sheriff’s deputy who was fatally shot last week to offer his condolences and condemn any violence against police officers.

Darren Goforth, a sheriff’s deputy in Harris County, was shot and k**led Friday at a gas station in suburban Houston. Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman called the shooting “an unprovoked, execution-style k*****g of a police officer,” saying that the gunman came up behind Goforth as he pumped gas and opened fire.

Obama called Kathleen Goforth, the deputy’s widow, on Monday while he was traveling to Alaska, according to a statement from the White House. During the call, Obama said he offered her prayers on the loss of “a veteran law enforcement officer who was contemptibly shot and k**led.”

He went on to decry any violence against officers, saying that Americans must stand up for the safety of police across the country.

“I also promised that I would continue to highlight the uncommon bravery that police officers show in our communities every single day,” Obama said in the statement. “They put their lives on the line for our safety. Targeting police officers is completely unacceptable — an affront to civilized society.”

After the shooting, authorities in Harris County linked Goforth’s death to ongoing protest movement criticizing how police officers use lethal force. Hickman, the sheriff, said the “rhetoric had gotten out of control,” although he later said police were “still searching to find out if that’s actually a motive.”

Fewer police officers are shot and k**led each year, statistics show, but as the protest movement has surged over the past year, current and former law enforcement officials have said they are concerned the heightened atmosphere presents an increased danger to police. In quickly tying the shooting to the protests, Hickman tapped into a larger sentiment among police officers worried about the tense atmosphere.

Over the weekend, authorities arrested Shannon J. Miles, 30, and charged him with capital murder. Miles was arraigned Monday. Devon Anderson, the Harris County district attorney, said Miles “unloaded [his] entire pistol into Deputy Goforth” during the shooting.

Goforth’s funeral has been scheduled for Friday morning at a Baptist church in Houston.

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Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

The sorry Turd-in-a-Suit currently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania is the main culprit in all of this black r****t hatred toward w****s and especially white police officers. He has stoked the fires of r****m every since he was elected. Well trained by the r****t Rev. Wright, coached by race baiter Sharpton and assisted by the r****t criminal Attorney General Holder, he has set race relations in the US back 150 years.

Calling the widow of officer Darren Goforth was the Turd's way of rubbing salt into the wounds of having lost her good husband to a black r****t coward. She should have hung up on the Turd.

KHH1

I guess you are free to have the perception you choose...that was in response to someone who said Obama did not say much.....so if he would have ignored it all together...then that would be something else to find wrong and complain about...the right tries to frame those "Damned if you do and Damned if you don't" arguments.......

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

With Obama, it's actually damned if you're a lying, muslim, crack headed, homosexual, white hating r****t from Kenya.

KHH1

interesting how you used Muslim in the middle of a string of demeaning terms...interesting indeed.......

markinny

notice the intelligence of sub sahara africa.bottom of the rung.gee wiz, black people live there.

jelun

Yes, we know.
You only need his color.

jelun

You are something.
What test is given to measure IQ anywhere in Africa and who administers it?
FTM, who administers them in the US?
When?
And to whom?

markinny

fact

jelun

Geewhiz, how about the deceptive sh*theads in the US? Do we have a means of measuring that? You are a crusty bit of crap left on a pair of silkies.

jelun

C'mon, you can do better than that.
Who administers IQ tests? What are the tests named?
When are they given?
Who takes IQ tests?

jelun

These people have so much fear and hatred in their lives, KHH1, and are let's face it so lacking in reading comprehension... they really cannot help but h**e.
Think of how said it must be to live like that? No hope, helpless, fearful...

KHH1

Okay...Africans are the highest educated group in America...over Asians...so what is your point? For everything you can present lowered about black people. Like anyone else I can show you something raised...remember I am a black ovserachiever...so I can use my damn self as an example of what is raised if the need be...the days of r****t w****s dictating their perception of others to them is over. African immigrants are the highest educated immigrant group...and hold your horses:

For the first time in the history of data collection by the National Center of Education Statistics as reported by the US Census, Black women have surpassed every other group in this country based upon race and g****r. What does that mean? For the first time in our history, African-American women have surpassed all groups in college entrance based upon race and g****r. That's right. African American women enroll in college more than Asian men, white women - you name the group, either race or g****r, African American women are number one.

KHH1

That is okay...read my rebuttal below and see if he relishes black inferiority...or his belief in it afterwards....... :roll:

jelun

I figure markinny will disappear for a while.