The US remains on edge in the wake of police shootings of black men and the killings of five Dallas officers BATON ROUGE — President Barack Obama condemned as “cowardly” a shooting that killed three police officers and wounded three more in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge on Sunday. “For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault,” Obama said in a statement. “These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law and on civilized society, and they have to stop.” The three officers were shot to death and several others wounded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Sunday, as the country remained on edge in the wake of police shootings of black men and the killings of five Dallas officers.The officers in Baton Rouge were responding to a call of shots fired when they were ambushed by at least one gunman, mayor Kip Holden told NBC News.One suspect is d...
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