Posted on 11/23/2014 11:22:16 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama in an interview broadcast Sunday didn’t rule out visiting Ferguson, Mo. after a grand jury reveals whether they decide to indict the police officer involved in the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
On ABC’s “This Week,” Obama was asked if it would make sense for him to pay the city a visit after the decision is released.
“You know, I’m going to wait and see how the response comes about,” Obama said. “But what does makes sense is for not just me, but my entire administration, to work with willing partners at the state and local level to see how we can address some of these systematic issues.”
The grand jury is set to reconvene on Monday at the earliest, reports said Saturday. Their decision was expected to be released over the weekend, but they had not reached one when they last met on Friday.
Obama had previously sent Attorney General Eric Holder to visit Ferguson as protests over Brown’s death embroiled the city and attracted the national spotlight in August.
In the lead-up to the grand jury’s decision, Obama said he’s been in touch with state officials to ensure the same type of violence that ravaged the city in August would not happen again.
“What I’ve done is called Jay Nixon, the governor of Missouri, to make sure that he has a plan to respond in a careful and appropriate way to any potential violence. To be able to sort out the vast majority of peaceful protesters from the handful who are not,” Obama said.
Host George Stephanopoulos asked Obama whether he agrees with civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) that if the grand jury doesn’t issue an indictment, it would be a miscarriage of justice and a turning point similar to the way Selma, Ala. was in the 1960s civil rights movement.
Obama declined to comment on Lewis’s statement, but suggested the issues in Ferguson can be fixed.
“The kinds of ongoing problems we have with police and communities of color around the country are not of the sort that we saw in Selma,” Obama said. “We’re not talking about systematic segregation or discrimination. They are solvable problems if in fact law enforcement officials are open to the kind of training and best practices that we’ve seen instituted in lot of parts of the country.”
He should take a trip to meet Brian Terry’s parents...
Crickets regarding that story.
I’m all for this!
I think he needs to act like the Rock Star he THINKS he is and be ‘crowd surfed’ amongst the rioters.
It’s a Win/Win! :)
Why would Obama go? After all, his underground force is there already funding and organizing and agitating. He’d only be there in show...
oh wait a sec, he’s in office only in show...
nevermind.
bhahahaha!
What’s he going to do loot a convenience store for some sneakers
Nah, he’ll be playing through.
This guy? In Ferguson?
He’d lead the Reparations Army, whipping them into a frenzy, to go KILL DA WHITE MAN!
I think King Barry should go to Ferguson and shove his talk of goodies for illegal aliens down the residents throats there and see how it goes.
I was thinking along those lines too, he could tell them them they will have to get in the back of the line for a job, after the illegals..
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