CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The head of the union that represents Cleveland's rank-and-file police officers told Fox News that President Barack Obama has 'blood on his hands' after the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

"It's absolutely insane that we have a president of the United States and a governor of Minnesota making the statements they made less than one day after the police-involved shootings," Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Steve Loomis said in the interview on the network shortly after the shooting.

"And those police-involved shootings, make no mistake, are what absolutely have triggered this rash of senseless murders of law enforcement officers across this country," he added. "It's reprehensible. And the president of the United States has blood on his hands that will not be able to come washed off."

His statement makes reference to statements made by the president and Mark Dayton, the democratic governor of Minnesota, a day after Philando Castile was shot to death in a car by a police officer in a St. Paul, Minnesota suburb.

Loomis has become known for his provocative statements to national and local media in the wake of police-involved shootings and killings in Cleveland. He has defended his officers in the shooting deaths of Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice and the death of Tanisha Anderson, a mentally ill woman who died in the custody of two officers.

The Tamir shooting resulted in no charges against police. Michael Brelo, the only officer to face a felony charge after he and fellow officers fired 137 shots at the unarmed Williams and Russell, was acquitted of manslaughter charges. The investigation into Anderson's death is in its 20th month.

Most recently, Loomis threatened to pull police officers from security details at Cleveland Browns games after running back Isaiah Crowell posted a photo on Instagram of a hooded figure cutting the throat of a police officer. Loomis withdrew his protest of the team after Crowell apologized and agreed to donate a week's salary to a memorial for the five police officers killed at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas.

"When incidents like this occur, there's a big chunk of our citizenry that feels as if, because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same, and that hurts, and that should trouble all of us," Obama said in a statement the following day. "This is not just a black issue, not just a Hispanic issue. This is an American issue that we all should care about."

Loomis asked Gov. John Kasich Sunday to suspend open carry in during the Cleveland Republican National Convention in the wake of the Baton Rouge shooting. Kasich's office responded saying that it does not have the authority to suspend state's open carry law.