Posted on 12/01/2014 4:12:07 PM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made a forceful pledge on Monday to use his last two years in office to address the "simmering distrust" between police and minority communities as he requested $263 million for the federal response to the civil rights upheaval triggered in Ferguson, Missouri.
Obama said he would set up a task force to study how to improve community policing with an eye toward building trust between law enforcement and communities of color. He also said he would consider imposing tighter controls on the proliferation of military-style weaponry and equipment provided to many police departments.
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What are "communities of color"?
Like napalm.
Might the distrust be because 3% of the population commits 50% of the violent crime in America?
FUBO!
He should address the “simmering distrust” between himself and the American people.
ALINSKY RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
red...yellow...green....mauve, chartuese,..?
only the Community Organizer knows for sure.... /
The people of Detroit have a good relationship with their police now.
All it took was a republican appointed police chief who supports the 2nd amendment and telling the truth about crime.
Address distrust?
Doesn’t he mean sow the seeds of distrust?
The solution is obvious. Everyone in America will be fitted with body cameras. Those who work for the state or are Obama’s friends will have their files overwritten and lost. Those who are his enemies will be arrested for buying a beer at 11:56 AM on a Sunday.
his method of addressing the simmering distrust appears to be preparing to fan it into a full blown war.,,,
Get ready for nationwide riots.
STOP COMMUNITY ORGANIZING US OBAMA!! Just STOP!!
The chutzpah.
OJ will find the real killers.
Hitler will uncover where all the Jews went.
Stalin will launch an inquiry into where the Ukrainian went wrong.
He is the problem. He lies to blacks just to agitate then then tries to tell the whites best their best friend and only he can restore the trust.
Frak him! Ignore the two-faced cur.
Walking around money for the Al Sharpton wannabe black clergy
With baited breath I’m waiting to hear what a black ars has to say.
What are “communities of color”?
Colored communists?
Are they gonna stop robbing and assaulting people?
Maybe the idea with "community policing" is to intimidate "snitchers." Darren Wilson did not get indicted because some African American eyewitnesses told the truth about what they saw instead of parroting the bogus story that Mike Brown's friend fed to the media right after the shooting.
Is Obama so confident in how the media will spin all of this to think that backing the looters and protesters will be a winning issue for the Democrats? Or does he think it will help advance his agenda in the long run, so it doesn't matter if it hurts Democrats in 2016?
...anything to keep from doing his real job.
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