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Did Obama Incite The Dallas Cop Killings? Shortly before five Dallas police officers were killed at a Black Lives Matter rally, President Obama was chastising the police for what he says is improper targeting of minorities. (AP) Licensing 7/08/2016 Race Relations: Just hours after President Obama blasted cops for targeting blacks in the wake of two police-involved shooting deaths and said "change has been too slow," five officers were killed by sniper fire at a Black Lives Matter rally. On a Facebook posting that Obama put up around 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, he lamented that recent fatal shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota "are not isolated incidents." Obama wrote that "they are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year." At 6:45 that evening, he gave a speech from Poland, to reiterate these points. "When we see data that indicates disparities in how African Americans and Latinos may be treated in various jurisdictions around the country, then it's incumbent on all of us to say, we can do better than this." Obama complained that "change has been too slow and we have to have a greater sense of urgency about this." Just before 8 p.m. EDT, the sniper fire struck police in Dallas at a Black Lives Matter rally, which was being held to protest the two killings Obama was talking about. Five cops were killed and seven wounded in the attack -- one of the murders caught on videotape was at point-blank range. After these killings, Obama offered no new Facebook posting. He didn't give another speech. He just issued a short statement condemning the "vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement." The lack of balance is shocking, but it is in keeping with Obama's approach to law enforcement since entering the White House. At every opportunity, he's taken pains to foment public anger when a cop kills a black person -- often long before the facts are known -- while issuing little more than terse statements when police are targeted by killers. After a Ferguson police officer killed Michael Brown, Obama scolded the officer -- saying there was "no excuse" for the shooting -- and sicced then-Attorney General Eric Holder on the Ferguson Police Department looking for evidence of racism. When the facts came out, they supported the officer's story that he acted in self-defense. After a Baltimore drug dealer died in police custody, Obama rushed in to complain about how "we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals, primarily African-American, often poor, in ways that raise troubling questions," Obama said. "This has been a slow-rolling crisis. This has been going on for a long time. This is not new, and we shouldn't pretend that it's new." As with Ferguson, the facts ended up supported the police -- every one put on trial so far has since been exonerated. Last year in this space, we noted that "while Obama hasn't called outright for hostilities against police, he helped craft Black Lives Matter's false narrative that racist white cops kill innocent blacks all the time. And like Black Lives Matter, he has fueled anti-cop hatred with anti-cop rhetoric." So is Obama to blame for the Dallas killings? No, not directly. Only the murderer who pulled a trigger, along with those who might have helped plan and execute the attack, are to blame. But by the standards of responsibility constantly being propagated by the left -- who tried to pin Rep. Gabby Giffords' shooting on Sarah Palin and the terrorist attack at a gay nightclub in Florida on Christian conservatives -- he shares in the blame. Rather than call for calm and racial healing, Obama's rhetoric has only served to inflame animosity, fuel anger and, arguably, help justify those extremists who believe that, like Obama, "change has been too slow." After almost eight years in office, Obama still acts like he's Community Organizer of the United States. investors.com