‘We have your backs’, Barack Obama tells police officers

US President Barack Obama has said the nation will get through the recent killings of police officers with the “love and empathy of public servants” like those targeted in recent days.

In an open letter to the nation’s law enforcement officers, Obama sought to reassure police, saying: “We have your backs.”

The letter was released the day after two police officers and a sheriff’s deputy were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after being ambushed by a lone gunman.