EBS - AP CLIENTS ONLY Warsaw - 8 July, 2016 1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President: “I will have more to say about this as the facts become more clear, for now let me just say that even as yesterday I spoke about our need to be concerned as all Americans about racial disparities in our criminal justice system. I also said yesterday that our police have an extraordinary difficult job and the vast majority of them do their job in outstanding fashion. I also indicated the degree to which we need to be supportive of those officers who do their job each and every day, protecting us and protecting our communities. Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices that they make for us, we also know that when people are armed with powerful weapons unfortunately it makes attacks like these more deadly and more tragic. And in the days ahead we are going to have to consider those realities as well. In the meantime today, our focus is the victims and their families. They are heartbroken, the entire city of Dallas is grieving. Police across America is a tight knit family and feels this loss to their core and we are grieving with them. I would ask all Americans to say a prayer for these officers and their families, keep them in your thoughts and as a nation, let’s remember to express our our profound gratitude to our men and women in blue, not just today but every day.”