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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Obama Speaks On The Sterling and Castile Police Shootings [Watch (HLS stream): Obama Speaks On The Sterling and Castile Police Shootings](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/F3JlGoFT.m3u8) (3:16)  _Published 2016-07-07. Speaking from Warsaw early Friday morning, President Obama said all Americans should be troubled by the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile who were both killed by police this week._ --- Jul 27, 2023 8:22 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Justice Department Will Not Charge Baton Rouge Police Over Alton Sterling Shooting](/video/wiArPjam/) ### Justice Department Will Not Charge Baton Rouge Police Over Alton Sterling Shooting [Police Officer Charged in Philando Castile Shooting](/video/Yozimgft/) ### Police Officer Charged in Philando Castile Shooting [Philando Castile's Girlfriend Speaks Out](/video/pU6ddo0u/) ### Philando Castile's Girlfriend Speaks Out --- ## Transcript Begin by expressing my condolences for the families of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Their symptomatic of a brother set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system And I just wanna give people as few statistics to try to put in context why emotions are so raw around these issues. According to various studies, not just one but a wide rage of studies that have been carried out over A number of years. African Americans are 30 % more likely than whites to be pulled over. After being pulled over, African Americans and Hispanics are three times more likely to be searched. Last year African Americans were shot by police At more than twice the rate are whites. After Americans are arrested at twice the rate of whites, after American defendence are 75 % more likely to be charged with defenses carrying mandatory minimums. There was senses that are 10 % longer than Comparable whites arrested for the same crime. So that if you add it all up, the African American and Hispanic population who make up only 30 % of the general population make up more than half of the incarcerated population. We have extraordinary appreciation and respect, For the vast majority of police officers who put their lives on the line to protect us every single day. They've got a dangerous job. It is a tough job. And as I've said before, they have a right to go home to their families just like anybody else on the job. And there are gonna be circumstances in which they've gotta make split- second decisions. We understand that. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] But when we see data that indicates disparities In how African Americans and Latinos may be treated in various jurisdictions around the country. And it's incumbent on all of us to say we can do better than this. We are better than this. There are problems across our criminal justice system There are biases, some conscious and unconscious, that have to be rooted out. That's not an attack on law enforcement. That is reflective of the values that the vast majority of law enforcement bring to the job. When people say black lives matter, that doesn't mean blue lives don't matter. It just means that all lives matter. 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