President Obama Outraged Over NY Police Killings

President Obama expressed outrage over the killing of two New York police officers that took place recently, calling the police commissioners of New York and Philadelphia to lend support to the law enforcement.

Obama called New York Police Commissioner William Bratton to give his condolences for the two police officers shot and killed in an ambush in Brooklyn on Saturday.

In the call, the president urged Americans to reject violence and turn to "prayer, patient dialogue, and sympathy for the friends and family of the fallen," said White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz.

Later in the day, Obama called Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, who co-chairs the president's task force on policing and who has voiced concern about the dangers that some of the most vitriolic anti-police protests pose to officers.

Ramsey said that he worries about the environment faced by police officers with "some of the people chanting 'We want dead cops.' You just don't know who that impacts, and now you have two officers dead, leaving behind families." His remarks were reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer.