President Obama, speaking from the White House after three police officers were killed today in Baton Rouge, La., says "nothing justifies" violence against police officers, and that "this has happened far too often." "We are about to enter a couple of weeks" of political conventions where our rhetoric "tend to be more overheated than usual" "We don't need inflammatory rhetoric" Obama says people should focus on words/actions that unite rather than divide further; "we need to temper our words and
Source: Bloomberg Politics