English subtitles for clip: File:President Obama Speaks at an Interfaith Memorial Service.webm

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(applause)

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David Brown:
Thank you so much.

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Thank you so much.

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When I was a teenager and
started liking girls.

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(laughter)

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I could never find the
right words to express myself.

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And after a couple words
they'd just walk away

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leaving me -

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(laughter)

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-- figuring out what do I
need to do to get a date.

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And so being a music fan
of 1970's rhythm and blues

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love songs I put together
a strategy to recite

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the lyrics -

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(laughter)

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-- to get a date.

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So for girls I liked I
would pull out some Al

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Green, or some Teddy
Pendergrass, or some Isley

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Brothers and I would
recite the lyrics to their

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love songs.

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But for people I loved.

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If I fell in love with a
girl, oh I had to dig down

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deep and get some
Stevie Wonder.

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(laughter and applause)

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To fully express the
love I had for them.

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For the girl.

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So today, I am going to
pull out some Stevie

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Wonder for these families.

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(applause)

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So families close your
eyes and just imagine me

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back in 1974 with an afro,
and some bell bottoms, and

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wide collar.

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"We all know sometimes
life's hate and troubles

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can make you wish you were
born in another time and place.

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But you can bet your
lifetimes that and twice

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as double that God knew
exactly where he wanted

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you to be placed.

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So make sure when you say
you're not in it, but not

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of it you are not helping
to make this Earth a place

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sometimes called hell.

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Change your words into
truth and then change that

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truth into love, and
maybe you're children's

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grandchildren and their
great great- grandchildren

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will tell them
I'll be loving you.

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Until the rainbow burns
the stars out of the sky

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I'll be loving you.

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Until the ocean covers
every mountain high I'll

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be loving you.

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Until the dolphin flies
and the parrots live at

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the sea I'll
be loving you.

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Until we dream of life and
life becomes a dream I'll

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be loving you.

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Until the day is night and
night becomes the day I'll

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be loving you.

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Until the trees and seas
up up and fly away I'll be

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loving you.

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Until the day that eight
times eight times eight

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times eight is four
I'll be loving you.

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Until the day that is the
day that are no more I'll

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be loving you.

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Until the day the Earth
starts turning right to

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left I'll be loving you.

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Until the Earth just for
the sun denies itself I'll

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be loving you.

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Until Mother Nature says
her work is through I'll

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be loving you.

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Until the day that are you
are me and I am you, now

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aint that loving you?"

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(applause)

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"Until the rainbow burns
the stars out of the sky

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aint that loving you?

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Until the ocean covers
every mountain high, and

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I've got to say always
I'll be loving you always."

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And there is no greater
love than this.

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That these five men gave
their lives for all of us,

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it is my honor to
introduce to you the

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President of the United
States of America,

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President Barack Obama.

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Thank you.

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(applause)

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President Obama:
Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Please.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Mr. President and Mrs.
Bush; my friend, the

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Vice President, and Dr.
Biden; Mayor Rawlings;

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Chief Spiller; clergy;
members of Congress; Chief

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Brown -- I'm so glad I met
Michelle first, because

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she loves Stevie Wonder --

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(laughter and applause)

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-- but most of all, to the
families and friends and

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colleagues and
fellow officers:

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Scripture tells us that in
our sufferings there is

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glory, because we know
that suffering produces

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perseverance;
perseverance, character;

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and character, hope.

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Sometimes the truths of
these words are hard to see.

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Right now, those
words test us.

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Because the people of
Dallas, people across the

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country, are suffering.

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We're here to honor the
memory, and mourn the

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loss, of five fellow
Americans -- to grieve

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with their loved ones, to
support this community, to

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pray for the wounded,
and to try and find some

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meaning amidst our sorrow.

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For the men and women who
protect and serve the

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people of Dallas, last
Thursday began like any

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other day.

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Like most Americans each
day, you get up, probably

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have too quick a
breakfast, kiss your

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family goodbye, and
you head to work.

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But your work, and the
work of police officers

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across the country,
is like no other.

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For the moment you put on
that uniform, you have

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answered a call that at
any moment, even in the

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briefest interaction, may
put your life in harm's way.

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Lorne Ahrens, he
answered that call.

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So did his wife, Katrina
-- not only because she

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was the spouse of a police
officer, but because she's

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a detective on the force.

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They have two kids.

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And Lorne took them
fishing, and used to

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proudly go to their
school in uniform.

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And the night before he
died, he bought dinner for

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a homeless man.

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And the next night,
Katrina had to tell their

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children that
their dad was gone.

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"They don't get it yet,"
their grandma said.

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"They don't know what
to do quite yet."

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Michael Krol
answered that call.

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His mother said, "He knew
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but he never shied
away from his duty."

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He came a thousand miles
from his home state of

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Michigan to be a cop
in Dallas, telling his

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family, "This is something
I wanted to do."

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Last year, he brought his
girlfriend back to Detroit

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for Thanksgiving, and it
was the last time he'd see

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his family.

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Michael Smith answered
that call -- in the Army,

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and over almost 30 years
working for the Dallas

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Police Association, which
gave him the appropriately

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named "Cops Cop" award.

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A man of deep faith, when
he was off duty, he could

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be found at church or
playing softball with his

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two girls.

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Today, his girls have lost
their dad, for God has

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called Michael home.

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Patrick Zamarripa, he
answered that call.

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Just 32, a former altar
boy who served in the Navy

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and dreamed of
being a cop.

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He liked to post videos of
himself and his kids on

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social media.

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And on Thursday night,
while Patrick went to

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work, his partner Kristy
posted a photo of her and

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their daughter at a Texas
Rangers game, and tagged

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her partner so that he
could see it while on duty.

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Brent Thompson
answered that call.

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He served his
country as a Marine.

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And years later, as a
contractor, he spent time

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in some of the most
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and Afghanistan.

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And then a few years ago,
he settled down here in

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Dallas for a new life of
service as a transit cop.

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And just about two weeks
ago, he married a fellow

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officer, their whole life
together waiting before them.

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Like police officers
across the country, these

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men and their families
shared a commitment to

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something larger
than themselves.

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They weren't looking for
their names to be up in lights.

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They'd tell you the pay
was decent but wouldn't

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make you rich.

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They could have told you
about the stress and long

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shifts, and they'd
probably agree with Chief

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Brown when he said that
cops don't expect to hear

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the words "thank you" very
often, especially from

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those who need
them the most.

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No, the reward comes in
knowing that our entire

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way of life in America
depends on the rule of

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law; that the maintenance
of that law is a hard and

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daily labor; that in this
country, we don't have

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soldiers in the streets
or militias setting the rules.

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Instead, we have public
servants -- police

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officers -- like the men
who were taken away from us.

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And that's what these five
were doing last Thursday

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when they were assigned to
protect and keep orderly a

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peaceful protest in
response to the killing of

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Alton Sterling of Baton
Rouge and Philando Castile

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of Minnesota.

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They were upholding the
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this country.

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For a while, the protest
went on without incident.

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And despite the fact that
police conduct was the

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subject of the protest,
despite the fact that

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there must have been signs
or slogans or chants with

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which they profoundly
disagreed, these men and

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this department did
their jobs like the

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professionals
that they were.

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In fact, the police had
been part of the

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protest's planning.

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Dallas PD even posted
photos on their Twitter

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feeds of their own
officers standing among

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the protesters.

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Two officers, black and
white, smiled next to a

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man with a sign that read,
"No Justice, No Peace."

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And then, around nine
o'clock, the gunfire came.

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Another community
torn apart.

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More hearts broken.

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More questions about what
caused, and what might

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prevent, another
such tragedy.

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I know that Americans are
struggling right now with

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what we've witnessed
over the past week.

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First, the shootings in
Minnesota and Baton Rouge,

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and the protests, then the
targeting of police by the

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shooter here -- an act not
just of demented violence

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but of racial hatred.

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All of it has left us
wounded, and angry, and hurt.

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It's as if the deepest
fault lines of our

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democracy have suddenly
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even widened.

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And although we know that
such divisions are not new

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-- though they have surely
been worse in even the

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recent past -- that
offers us little comfort.

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Faced with this violence,
we wonder if the divides

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of race in America
can ever be bridged.

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We wonder if an
African-American community

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that feels unfairly
targeted by police, and

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police departments that
feel unfairly maligned for

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doing their jobs, can ever
understand each

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other's experience.

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We turn on the TV or surf
the Internet, and we can

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watch positions harden and
lines drawn, and people

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retreat to their
respective corners, and

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politicians calculate how
to grab attention or avoid

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the fallout.

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We see all this, and
it's hard not to think

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sometimes that the center
won't hold and that things

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might get worse.

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I understand.

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I understand how
Americans are feeling.

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But, Dallas, I'm here to
say we must reject such despair.

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I'm here to insist that we
are not as divided as we seem.

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And I know that
because I know America.

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I know how far we've come
against impossible odds.

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(applause)

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I know we'll make it
because of what I've

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experienced in my own
life, what I've seen of

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this country and its
people -- their goodness

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and decency --as President
of the United States.

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And I know it because of
what we've seen here in

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Dallas -- how all of you,
out of great suffering,

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have shown us the meaning
of perseverance and

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character, and hope.

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When the bullets started
flying, the men and women

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of the Dallas police, they
did not flinch and they

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did not react recklessly.

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They showed
incredible restraint.

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Helped in some cases by
protesters, they evacuated

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the injured, isolated the
shooter, and saved more

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lives than we
will ever know.

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(applause)

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We mourn fewer people
today because of your

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brave actions.

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(applause)

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"Everyone was helping each
other," one witness said.

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"It wasn't about
black or white.

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Everyone was picking each
other up and moving them away."

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See, that's the
America I know.

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The police helped Shetamia
Taylor as she was shot

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trying to shield
her four sons.

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She said she wanted her
boys to join her to

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protest the incidents of
black men being killed.

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She also said to the
Dallas PD, "Thank you for

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being heroes."

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And today, her 12-year old
son wants to be a cop when

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he grows up.

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That's the America I know.

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(applause)

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In the aftermath of the
shooting, we've seen Mayor

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Rawlings and Chief Brown,
a white man and a black

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man with different
backgrounds, working not

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just to restore order and
support a shaken city, a

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shaken department, but
working together to unify

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a city with strength
and grace and wisdom.

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(applause)

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And in the process, we've
been reminded that the

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Dallas Police Department
has been at the forefront

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of improving relations
between police and

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the community.

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(applause)

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The murder rate
here has fallen.

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Complaints of excessive
force have been cut

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by 64 percent.

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The Dallas Police
Department has been doing

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it the right way.

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(applause)

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And so, Mayor Rawlings and
Chief Brown, on behalf of

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the American people,
thank you for your steady

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leadership, thank you for
your powerful example.

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We could not be
prouder of you.

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(applause)

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These men, this department
-- this is the America I know.

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And today, in this
audience, I see people who

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have protested on behalf
of criminal justice reform

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grieving alongside
police officers.

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I see people who mourn for
the five officers we lost

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but also weep for the
families of Alton Sterling

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and Philando Castile.

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In this audience, I
see what's possible --

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(applause)

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-- I see what's possible
when we recognize that we

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are one American family,
all deserving of equal

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treatment, all deserving
of equal respect, all

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children of God.

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That's the America
that I know.

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Now, I'm not naĂŻve.

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I have spoken at too many
memorials during the

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course of this presidency.

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I've hugged too many
families who have lost a

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loved one to
senseless violence.

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And I've seen how a spirit
of unity, born of tragedy,

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can gradually dissipate,
overtaken by the return to

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business as usual, by
inertia and old habits

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and expediency.

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I see how easily we slip
back into our old notions,

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because they're
comfortable, we're used to them.

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I've seen how inadequate
words can be in bringing

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about lasting change.

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I've seen how inadequate
my own words have been.

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And so I'm reminded of a
passage in *John's Gospel

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(First John)

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: Let us love not with
words or speech, but with

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actions and in truth.

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If we're to sustain the
unity we need to get

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through these difficult
times, if we are to honor

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these five outstanding
officers who we've lost,

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then we will need to act
on the truths that we know.

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And that's not easy.

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It makes us uncomfortable.

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But we're going to have to
be honest with each other

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and ourselves.

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We know that the
overwhelming majority of

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police officers do an
incredibly hard and

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dangerous job fairly
and professionally.

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They are deserving of our
respect and not our scorn.

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(applause)

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And when anyone, no matter
how good their intentions

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may be, paints all police
as biased or bigoted, we

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undermine those officers
we depend on for our safety.

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And as for those who use
rhetoric suggesting harm

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to police, even if they
don't act on it themselves

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-- well, they not only
make the jobs of police

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officers even more
dangerous, but they do a

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disservice to the very
cause of justice that they

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claim to promote.

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(applause)

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We also know that
centuries of racial

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discrimination -- of
slavery, and subjugation,

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and Jim Crow -- they
didn't simply vanish with

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the end of lawful
segregation.

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They didn't just stop when
Dr. King made a speech, or

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the Voting Rights Act and
the Civil Rights Act

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were signed.

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Race relations have
improved dramatically in

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my lifetime.

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Those who deny it are
dishonoring the struggles

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that helped us achieve
that progress.

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(applause)

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But we know -- but,
America, we know that

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bias remains.

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We know it.

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Whether you are black or
white or Hispanic or Asian

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or Native American or of
Middle Eastern descent, we

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have all seen this bigotry
in our own lives at some point.

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We've heard it at
times in our own homes.

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If we're honest, perhaps
we've heard prejudice in

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our own heads and felt
it in our own hearts.

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We know that.

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And while some suffer
far more under racism's

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burden, some feel to
a far greater extent

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discrimination's sting.

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Although most of us do our
best to guard against it

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and teach our children
better, none of us is

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entirely innocent.

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No institution is
entirely immune.

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And that includes our
police departments.

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We know this.

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And so when African
Americans from all walks

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of life, from different
communities across the

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country, voice a growing
despair over what they

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perceive to be unequal
treatment; when study

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after study shows that
whites and people of color

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experience the criminal
justice system

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differently, so that if
you're black you're more

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likely to be pulled over
or searched or arrested,

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more likely to get longer
sentences, more likely to

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get the death penalty
for the same crime; when

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mothers and fathers raise
their kids right and have

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"the talk" about how to
respond if stopped by a

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police officer -- "yes,
sir," "no, sir" -- but

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00:30:01,833 --> 00:30:04,573
still fear that something
terrible may happen when

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their child walks out the
door, still fear that kids

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being stupid and not quite
doing things right might

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end in tragedy -- when all
this takes place more than

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50 years after the passage
of the Civil Rights Act,

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we cannot simply turn
away and dismiss those in

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peaceful protest as
troublemakers or paranoid.

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00:30:32,830 --> 00:30:37,940
(applause)

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00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:46,315
We can't simply dismiss it
as a symptom of political

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correctness or
reverse racism.

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To have your experience
denied like that,

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dismissed by those in
authority, dismissed

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perhaps even by your white
friends and coworkers and

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fellow church members
again and again and again

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00:31:07,932 --> 00:31:11,232
-- it hurts.

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Surely we can see
that, all of us.

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We also know what Chief
Brown has said is true:

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That so much of the
tensions between police

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departments and minority
communities that they

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00:31:31,923 --> 00:31:36,263
serve is because we ask
the police to do too much

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00:31:36,261 --> 00:31:39,031
and we ask too
little of ourselves.

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00:31:39,030 --> 00:31:46,270
(applause)

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As a society, we choose
to underinvest in

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decent schools.

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00:32:09,327 --> 00:32:12,267
We allow poverty to
fester so that entire

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neighborhoods offer no
prospect for gainful employment.

427
00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:16,700
(applause)

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00:32:16,701 --> 00:32:19,841
We refuse to fund drug
treatment and mental

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00:32:19,837 --> 00:32:20,707
health programs.

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00:32:20,705 --> 00:32:25,205
(applause)

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00:32:25,810 --> 00:32:29,450
We flood communities with
so many guns that it is

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00:32:29,447 --> 00:32:32,617
easier for a teenager to
buy a Glock than get his

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00:32:32,617 --> 00:32:34,557
hands on a computer
or even a book --

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(applause)

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-- and then we tell the
police "you're a social

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00:32:46,597 --> 00:32:52,767
worker, you're the parent,
you're the teacher, you're

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00:32:52,770 --> 00:32:56,710
the drug counselor."

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00:32:56,708 --> 00:32:58,948
We tell them to keep those
neighborhoods in check at

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all costs, and do so
without causing any

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00:33:03,614 --> 00:33:08,424
political blowback
or inconvenience.

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Don't make a mistake that
might disturb our own

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peace of mind.

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00:33:13,424 --> 00:33:16,124
And then we feign surprise
when, periodically, the

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tensions boil over.

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00:33:24,736 --> 00:33:28,906
We know these
things to be true.

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00:33:28,906 --> 00:33:32,846
They've been true
for a long time.

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00:33:32,844 --> 00:33:34,644
We know it.

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00:33:34,645 --> 00:33:40,485
Police, you know it.

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00:33:40,485 --> 00:33:43,355
Protestors, you know it.

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00:33:43,354 --> 00:33:45,594
You know how dangerous
some of the communities

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00:33:45,590 --> 00:33:48,590
where these police
officers serve are, and

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00:33:48,593 --> 00:33:54,763
you pretend as if
there's no context.

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00:33:54,766 --> 00:33:56,966
These things we
know to be true.

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00:33:56,968 --> 00:33:59,408
And if we cannot even talk
about these things -- if

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we cannot talk honestly
and openly not just in the

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comfort of our own
circles, but with those

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00:34:06,911 --> 00:34:09,751
who look different than
us or bring a different

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00:34:09,747 --> 00:34:15,417
perspective, then we will
never break this

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dangerous cycle.

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00:34:21,459 --> 00:34:23,599
In the end, it's not about
finding policies that

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00:34:23,594 --> 00:34:30,404
work; it's about forging
consensus, and fighting

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00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:46,281
cynicism, and finding
the will to make change.

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Can we do this?

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Can we find the character,
as Americans, to open our

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hearts to each other?

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00:35:00,064 --> 00:35:03,234
Can we see in each other
a common humanity and a

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00:35:03,234 --> 00:35:06,534
shared dignity, and
recognize how our

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00:35:06,537 --> 00:35:08,607
different experiences
have shaped us?

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00:35:08,606 --> 00:35:14,716
And it doesn't make
anybody perfectly good or

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00:35:14,712 --> 00:35:19,622
perfectly bad, it
just makes us human.

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00:35:19,617 --> 00:35:22,857
I don't know.

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00:35:22,854 --> 00:35:30,964
I confess that sometimes
I, too, experience doubt.

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00:35:30,962 --> 00:35:37,102
I've been to too
many of these things.

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00:35:37,101 --> 00:35:44,041
I've seen too many
families go through this.

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00:35:44,041 --> 00:35:46,641
But then I am reminded
of what the Lord tells

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00:35:46,644 --> 00:35:53,484
Ezekiel: I will give you a
new heart, the Lord says,

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00:35:53,484 --> 00:35:56,954
and put a new
spirit in you.

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00:35:56,954 --> 00:36:01,594
I will remove from you
your heart of stone and

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00:36:01,592 --> 00:36:06,602
give you a heart of flesh.

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00:36:06,597 --> 00:36:15,107
That's what we must pray
for, each of us: a new heart.

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00:36:15,106 --> 00:36:19,806
Not a heart of stone, but
a heart open to the fears

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00:36:19,810 --> 00:36:27,220
and hopes and challenges
of our fellow citizens.

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That's what we've seen
in Dallas these past few days.

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That's what we
must sustain.

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00:36:34,926 --> 00:36:36,926
Because with an open
heart, we can learn to

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00:36:36,928 --> 00:36:39,268
stand in each other's
shoes and look at the

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00:36:39,263 --> 00:36:42,963
world through each other's
eyes, so that maybe the

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00:36:42,967 --> 00:36:46,267
police officer sees his
own son in that teenager

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00:36:46,270 --> 00:36:48,870
with a hoodie who's kind
of goofing off but

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00:36:48,873 --> 00:36:49,873
not dangerous --

491
00:36:49,874 --> 00:36:51,574
(applause)

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00:36:51,576 --> 00:36:53,206
-- and the teenager --
maybe the teenager will

493
00:36:53,210 --> 00:36:57,150
see in the police officer
the same words and values

494
00:36:57,148 --> 00:36:59,548
and authority
of his parents.

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00:36:59,550 --> 00:37:04,790
(applause)

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00:37:04,789 --> 00:37:08,589
With an open heart, we can
abandon the overheated

497
00:37:08,593 --> 00:37:10,833
rhetoric and the
oversimplification that

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00:37:10,828 --> 00:37:14,968
reduces whole categories
of our fellow Americans

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00:37:14,966 --> 00:37:19,636
not just to opponents,
but to enemies.

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00:37:19,637 --> 00:37:22,477
With an open heart, those
protesting for change will

501
00:37:22,473 --> 00:37:26,273
guard against reckless
language going forward,

502
00:37:26,277 --> 00:37:30,017
look at the model set by
the five officers we mourn

503
00:37:30,014 --> 00:37:33,884
today, acknowledge the
progress brought about by

504
00:37:33,884 --> 00:37:36,224
the sincere efforts of
police departments like

505
00:37:36,220 --> 00:37:40,730
this one in Dallas, and
embark on the hard but

506
00:37:40,725 --> 00:37:44,465
necessary work of
negotiation, the pursuit

507
00:37:44,462 --> 00:37:49,302
of reconciliation.

508
00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:51,300
With an open heart,
police departments will

509
00:37:51,302 --> 00:37:54,072
acknowledge that, just
like the rest of us, they

510
00:37:54,071 --> 00:37:58,041
are not perfect; that
insisting we do better to

511
00:37:58,042 --> 00:38:01,912
root out racial bias is
not an attack on cops, but

512
00:38:01,912 --> 00:38:04,852
an effort to live up
to our highest ideals.

513
00:38:04,849 --> 00:38:09,989
(applause)

514
00:38:12,456 --> 00:38:16,196
And I understand these
protests -- I see them,

515
00:38:16,193 --> 00:38:19,233
they can be messy.

516
00:38:19,230 --> 00:38:21,230
Sometimes they can
be hijacked by an

517
00:38:21,232 --> 00:38:23,172
irresponsible few.

518
00:38:23,167 --> 00:38:24,167
Police can get hurt.

519
00:38:24,168 --> 00:38:29,708
Protestors can get hurt.

520
00:38:29,707 --> 00:38:33,177
They can be frustrating.

521
00:38:33,177 --> 00:38:35,547
But even those who dislike
the phrase "Black Lives

522
00:38:35,546 --> 00:38:42,516
Matter," surely we should
be able to hear the pain

523
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,520
of Alton
Sterling's family.

524
00:38:44,522 --> 00:38:47,322
(applause)

525
00:38:47,324 --> 00:38:52,064
We should -- when we hear
a friend describe him by

526
00:38:52,063 --> 00:38:54,063
saying that "Whatever he
cooked, he cooked enough

527
00:38:54,065 --> 00:38:57,605
for everybody," that
should sound familiar to

528
00:38:57,601 --> 00:39:01,671
us, that maybe he wasn't
so different than us, so

529
00:39:01,672 --> 00:39:05,342
that we can, yes, insist
that his life matters.

530
00:39:05,342 --> 00:39:09,412
Just as we should hear the
students and coworkers

531
00:39:09,413 --> 00:39:13,923
describe their affection
for Philando Castile as a

532
00:39:13,918 --> 00:39:15,818
gentle soul -- "Mr.

533
00:39:15,820 --> 00:39:18,860
Rogers with dreadlocks,"
they called him -- and

534
00:39:18,856 --> 00:39:22,026
know that his life
mattered to a whole lot of

535
00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:25,466
people of all races, of
all ages, and that we have

536
00:39:25,463 --> 00:39:31,573
to do what we can, without
putting officers' lives at

537
00:39:31,569 --> 00:39:36,169
risk, but do better to
prevent another life like

538
00:39:36,173 --> 00:39:41,043
his from being lost.

539
00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:43,485
With an open heart, we can
worry less about which

540
00:39:43,481 --> 00:39:47,621
side has been wronged, and
worry more about joining

541
00:39:47,618 --> 00:39:50,388
sides to do right.

542
00:39:50,387 --> 00:39:55,357
(applause)

543
00:39:53,824 --> 00:40:07,234
Because the vicious killer
of these police officers,

544
00:40:07,238 --> 00:40:09,678
they won't be the last
person who tries to make

545
00:40:09,673 --> 00:40:13,743
us turn on one other.

546
00:40:13,744 --> 00:40:18,754
The killer in Orlando
wasn't, nor was the killer

547
00:40:18,749 --> 00:40:23,159
in Charleston.

548
00:40:23,154 --> 00:40:29,564
We know there is
evil in this world.

549
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,860
That's why we need
police departments.

550
00:40:32,863 --> 00:40:37,903
(applause)

551
00:40:34,765 --> 00:40:43,745
But as Americans, we can
decide that people like

552
00:40:43,741 --> 00:40:45,741
this killer will
ultimately fail.

553
00:40:45,743 --> 00:40:48,043
They will not
drive us apart.

554
00:40:48,045 --> 00:40:50,645
We can decide to come
together and make our

555
00:40:50,648 --> 00:40:56,458
country reflect the good
inside us, the hopes and

556
00:40:56,453 --> 00:41:04,833
simple dreams we share.

557
00:41:04,829 --> 00:41:09,169
"We also glory in our
sufferings, because we

558
00:41:09,166 --> 00:41:14,136
know that suffering
produces perseverance;

559
00:41:14,138 --> 00:41:22,718
perseverance, character;
and character, hope."

560
00:41:22,713 --> 00:41:26,053
For all of us, life
presents challenges and

561
00:41:26,050 --> 00:41:33,260
suffering -- accidents,
illnesses, the loss of

562
00:41:33,257 --> 00:41:34,257
loved ones.

563
00:41:34,258 --> 00:41:41,028
There are times when we
are overwhelmed by sudden

564
00:41:41,031 --> 00:41:48,471
calamity, natural
or manmade.

565
00:41:48,472 --> 00:41:52,442
All of us, we
make mistakes.

566
00:41:52,443 --> 00:41:56,813
And at times we are lost.

567
00:41:56,814 --> 00:41:59,254
And as we get older, we
learn we don't always have

568
00:41:59,250 --> 00:42:05,690
control of things -- not
even a President does.

569
00:42:05,689 --> 00:42:08,429
But we do have control
over how we respond

570
00:42:08,425 --> 00:42:11,095
to the world.

571
00:42:11,095 --> 00:42:17,535
We do have control over
how we treat one another.

572
00:42:17,534 --> 00:42:21,174
America does not ask
us to be perfect.

573
00:42:21,171 --> 00:42:23,641
Precisely because of our
individual imperfections,

574
00:42:23,641 --> 00:42:27,841
our founders gave us
institutions to guard

575
00:42:27,845 --> 00:42:33,955
against tyranny and ensure
no one is above the law; a

576
00:42:33,951 --> 00:42:36,751
democracy that gives us
the space to work through

577
00:42:36,754 --> 00:42:41,824
our differences and debate
them peacefully, to make

578
00:42:41,825 --> 00:42:45,425
things better, even if it
doesn't always happen as

579
00:42:45,429 --> 00:42:50,339
fast as we'd like.

580
00:42:50,334 --> 00:42:57,674
America gives us the
capacity to change.

581
00:42:57,675 --> 00:43:01,445
But as the men we mourn
today -- these five heroes

582
00:43:01,445 --> 00:43:06,455
-- knew better than
most, we cannot take the

583
00:43:06,450 --> 00:43:10,960
blessings of this
nation for granted.

584
00:43:10,955 --> 00:43:13,725
Only by working together
can we preserve those

585
00:43:13,724 --> 00:43:18,094
institutions of family
and community, rights and

586
00:43:18,095 --> 00:43:25,635
responsibilities, law and
self-government that is

587
00:43:25,636 --> 00:43:30,006
the hallmark
of this nation.

588
00:43:30,007 --> 00:43:35,377
For, it turns out, we
do not persevere alone.

589
00:43:35,379 --> 00:43:40,719
Our character is not
found in isolation.

590
00:43:40,718 --> 00:43:43,558
Hope does not arise by
putting our fellow man

591
00:43:43,554 --> 00:43:46,394
down; it is found by
lifting others up.

592
00:43:46,390 --> 00:43:53,860
(applause)

593
00:43:47,958 --> 00:43:57,138
And that's what I take
away from the lives of

594
00:43:57,134 --> 00:44:01,304
these outstanding men.

595
00:44:01,305 --> 00:44:05,645
The pain we feel may not
soon pass, but my faith

596
00:44:05,642 --> 00:44:09,382
tells me that they
did not die in vain.

597
00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:13,180
I believe our sorrow can
make us a better country.

598
00:44:13,183 --> 00:44:16,623
I believe our righteous
anger can be transformed

599
00:44:16,620 --> 00:44:21,430
into more justice
and more peace.

600
00:44:21,425 --> 00:44:23,565
Weeping may endure for a
night, but I'm convinced

601
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,530
joy comes in the morning.

602
00:44:25,529 --> 00:44:29,269
(applause)

603
00:44:30,034 --> 00:44:33,034
We cannot match the
sacrifices made by

604
00:44:33,037 --> 00:44:39,607
Officers Zamarripa and
Ahrens, Krol, Smith, and

605
00:44:39,610 --> 00:44:43,550
Thompson, but surely we
can try to match their

606
00:44:43,547 --> 00:44:46,947
sense of service.

607
00:44:46,950 --> 00:44:52,060
We cannot match their
courage, but we can strive

608
00:44:52,056 --> 00:44:55,226
to match their devotion.

609
00:44:55,225 --> 00:44:57,665
May God bless
their memory.

610
00:44:57,661 --> 00:44:59,901
May God bless this
country that we love.

611
00:44:59,897 --> 00:45:09,777
(applause)