Rove: Obama’s Remarks on Ferguson Shooting Troubling

President Obama’s response to the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Mo., was troubling, says former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove.

“I am worried about the president’s language,” said Rove on Fox News Sunday. “When the president goes on Jimmy Kimmel and says, quote, ‘Whoever fired those shots shouldn’t detract from the issue’ — that’s sort of weird. It’s like, his condemnation of the shooter is that he was detracting from the bigger, more important issue, which was the conduct of the police department.”

Asked whether the president’s previous handling of the situation in Ferguson helped to create a climate primed for a shooting, Rove demurred: “I want to divorce these things. They led to the climate, but I’m not certain the climate created the act. The act was created by an individual who took those shots and tried to kill police officers.”