Cleveland cop on Fox: Obama 'has blood on his hands' in Baton Rouge

A police officer from Cleveland, Ohio, where the GOP convention is about to begin, said Sunday on Fox News that President Obama is significantly to blame for the attack on police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Det. Steve Loomis suggested that Obama's comments about the recent police killings of two African-American men, Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, fueled violence against police. "It's reprehensible," Loomis said. "And the president of the United States has blood on his hands that will not be able to come washed off [sic]."

Obama made a statement about the shooting Sunday afternoon, and White House staff are in communication with Baton Rouge law enforcement. On Tuesday, Obama attended a memorial for five police officers slain in Dallas.

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