article_snippet: After poking fun at The president by reading mean tweets people have written about The president among other self-deprecating bits, Barack Obama reflected on Wednesday night's shooting of two police officers in racially tense Ferguson, MissouriMissouri, just days after The president had delivered a speech on racial healing in Selma, Alabama. '
article_snippet: Barack Obama simultaneously addressed the Justice Department's findings about police behavior in Ferguson that led up to last summer's mass protests. '
article_snippet: What had been happening was questionable and objectionable and should have been protested,' Barack Obama said.
article_snippet: Barack Obama went on to refer to findings that the town had intentionally targeted African American citizens for ticketing and arrest largely as a means of making money. '
article_snippet: There was a whole structure, according to the Justice Department, that indicated racism' Barack Obama said.
article_snippet: Barack Obama was careful to hedge Barack Obama bets between protesters and police, though. '
article_snippet: In Washington, Barack Obama had already taken to Twitter to relay Barack Obama prayers to the officers and to denounce violence against police. '
article_snippet: The shootings marked the first time in more than seven months of tension in Barack Obama that officers were shot at a protest, and the bloodshed threatened to inflame the already fraught relationship between police and protesters just as the city seeks reforms in the wake of a withering Justice Department report on racial bias in the city law-enforcement practices.
article_snippet: The shootings also seemed to create another layer of race-related mistrust after a week in which an unarmed young black man was killed by a white officer in Madison, Wisconsin, and a University of Oklahoma fraternity chapter was thrown off campus after a video surfaced showing members singing a racist chant.
article_snippet: In Washington, Barack Obama took to Twitter to relay Barack Obama prayers to the officers and to denounce violence against police. '
article_snippet: Barack Obama's appearance on Jimmy Kimmel came hours after wo police officers were shot early Thursday morning in front of the Ferguson Police Department during a protest following the resignation of the city's police chief .
article_snippet: Police watch from the parking lot as demonstrators protests in front of the police station on March 12, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri.
article_snippet: While tensions continued in the St. Louis suburb, Barack Obama made Barack Obama way to Los Angeles for a Democratic fundraiser .