Obama: Baton Rouge an ‘Attack on All of Us’

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Updated Apr. 13, 2017 3:31PM ET / Published Jul. 17, 2016 5:06PM ET

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President Obama condemned the killing of three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as an "attack on all of us." Obama made his remarks from the White House, just a week after he eulogized five officers murdered in Dallas by another gunman. "I said that killer would not be the last person who tries to make us turn on each other, nor will today's killer," he said, adding, "That's up to us."

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