Posted on 08/21/2014 2:52:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Grammy-winning rapper Nelly told Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday that law enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri, had lost the trust of the community and needed to change, the star's publicist told NBC News. The artist spoke on the phone to Holder, who visited the St Louis suburb in a bid to end violence over the fatal shooting by police of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
Nelly, a Ferguson native who created a scholarship fund in honor of Brown’s family, said in a statement that he was “thankful” that Holder had taken the time to speak. “[Holder] understood that the trust and communication in our city is broken, we need to stop the loss of lives of our young people and we discussed the importance of building bridges between city leaders and the community members,” the statement said. “We both agreed that we have to support the Brown family in their loss and that we need to stop the violence in our city right now and learn from this tragedy, that this is a new starting point to fix what is broken and build a new community system to ensure a safer future for our young people.”(continued)
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How can you have community trust when the community is easily triggered into rioting, robbing, and looting?
Genius!
She's always sticking her nose into other people's biddness...
I agree. Arrest the protesters, and shoot the looters.
NBC is treating “Nelly” (What kind of name is that anyway???) as if he is some sort of expert because he won a a Grammy years ago for a song called, “Hot in Herre”. The song is disrespectful to women and it gets an award.
That is who NBC and the Admin looks up to for understanding the community. What a joke!
hes right, this goes to show that there is more crime there than many first thought , there is no respect, and it seems for the law, and yes it seems many there like to lie.
Yep trust has been broken
The same Nelly the crowd of locals told to go away when he tried speaking the other night?
That Nelly?
The federal government has lost the trust of millions of us.
And for cryin out loud buy some floss.
'Whoa ______'
Ha ha ha ha!
So this sorry excuse for an administration is taking advice from an overpaid hip hop performer with a grille, who makes his fortune spewing out obscenities and demeaning words about women into some sort of poetry form (where’s NOW when it comes to this sort of thing?). And to think when I was a kid, I was made fun of for believing pro wrestling was real.
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