Attorney General Loretta Lynch condemned the San Bernardino shooting Thursday at the White House saying, “Violence like this has no place in this country. This is not what we stand for, this is not what we do.”
Lynch, who was participating in a White House and Justice Department discussing incarceration and poverty, opened her remarks saying that the investigation into the shooting in San Bernardino is in its early stages adding, “We don’t know a lot right now.”
“But one thing is clear, that violence like this has no place in this country and in this nation,” Lynch said, speaking at the previously scheduled White House event on criminal justice. “This is not what we stand for, this is not what we do, this is not what we work for. This is not what we live for, it’s antithetical to our values.”
Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett also spoke about San Bernardino at the White House event, calling for a moment of silence for victims and their families.
On Wednesday, 14 people were killed in a shooting rampage at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, marking the deadliest shooting in the U.S. since more than two dozen, mostly children, were killed in Newtown, Connecticut, about three years ago.
Lynch said the local authorities on the scene will be providing additional information as the investigation unfolds.
After her remarks on San Bernardino, the attorney general discussed incarceration and poverty which she said are of “equal seriousness” to mass shootings.