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Obama signs bill to review civil rights-era killings
Associated Press ^ | Dec. 16, 2016 5:26 PM EST | Mary Clare Jalonick

Posted on 12/16/2016 4:32:54 PM PST by Olog-hai

Racially motivated, civil rights-era killings that are now cold cases will get fresh looks under legislation signed by President Barack Obama.

Obama signed the bill Friday. It indefinitely extends a 2007 law that calls for a full accounting of race-based deaths, many of which had been closed for decades. The law was set to expire next year.

The bill is named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy killed in 1955 after whistling at a white woman. His killers were acquitted of murder but later admitted their crimes to a reporter and couldn’t be retried. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: emmettill; obama; obamaracist; racism
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1 posted on 12/16/2016 4:32:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

A nice racial hatred story comes in handy when you need to stir the sht.


2 posted on 12/16/2016 4:35:37 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: Olog-hai

By the time the bureaucrats get around to this President Trump will void it.

obozo is just trying to manufacture a legacy for himself.

But in 16 years people will be saying “asomo shlomo assad who?”


3 posted on 12/16/2016 4:35:43 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Good morning President Trump)
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To: Olog-hai
Of course if this was a bill to fund the review of *all* old murders Obola wouldn't have the slightest interest.But having said that I can certainly support pursuing *any* old murders,regardless of the motive,the race of the victim or the race of the perp.
4 posted on 12/16/2016 4:38:15 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: virgil

I think that people will be amazed when the racial divide, created by Obie, begins to close.


5 posted on 12/16/2016 4:40:36 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Of course when one looks at the actual statistics they are rudely startled to find that black on white hate crimes are 10X more prevalent than the reverse, but we must ignore those facts, because Black Lies Matter.


6 posted on 12/16/2016 4:40:41 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Gay State Conservative

God knows, there aren’t enough current crime cases on the books to keep law enforcement busy. So we have to dig up 60 year old cases to make headlines.


7 posted on 12/16/2016 4:41:10 PM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Olog-hai

law enforcement must not be busy enough for obama.


8 posted on 12/16/2016 4:44:45 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Olog-hai

Whitey killed by negro ghetto thugs need not apply.


9 posted on 12/16/2016 4:45:42 PM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Olog-hai
a 14-year-old black boy killed in 1955 after whistling at a white woman

Uhhh, whistling at a white woman, following her into the store she operated while she was alone and grabbing her by the wrist, saying he had lots of white girlfriends back home in Chicago? That boy?

And his cousins dragged his foolhardy butt out of there finally, and the woman went to her car and got her gun. And she told her husband, who had been away working on a fishing trawler . . . and things didn't go well for the "boy" after that. One of the guys in the outraged posse who went to find the kid was black, I read.

10 posted on 12/16/2016 4:46:43 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: freedumb2003
By the time the bureaucrats get around to this President Trump will void it.

How exactly does a president "void" legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by a previous president? Please explain.

11 posted on 12/16/2016 4:48:22 PM PST by okie01
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To: Olog-hai

Is he going to re-investigate the Zebra Killings in the SF area back in 1973-74 where as many as 71 white people were murdered by Black Muslims? Four were arrested and convicted for some of the murders, but most of the murders are unsolved. There are thousands of other black on white murders that have gone unsolved across the country.


12 posted on 12/16/2016 4:48:31 PM PST by euram
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To: virgil

Yes - have to keep rubbing salt in those wounds to keep them open, to keep blacks aggrieved, to keep them on the D-vote plantation.


13 posted on 12/16/2016 4:50:04 PM PST by bkopto
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To: Olog-hai

Not as silly as most of the ‘civil rights’ bills congress considers these days.
Only one and a half million a year, pretty cheap for DC!

Doubt they’ll find more than one or two.


14 posted on 12/16/2016 4:52:43 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: virgil

I guess oblamer and the cong. black caucus finally realized how irrelevant they were becoming.


15 posted on 12/16/2016 4:58:36 PM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Olog-hai

How about a bill to review all the violence blacks have committed against whites? And how much black violence has cost society.


16 posted on 12/16/2016 5:11:30 PM PST by boycott (S)
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To: Olog-hai
Still trying to cause division and hatred to the very end.

Never has this nation been so divided and full of hatred.

17 posted on 12/16/2016 5:49:04 PM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type) We won! Ok, Donald, let's ROLL!)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh, hell, as long as we’re talking racist murders by racists, let’s investigate whites killed by racist blacks the past 8 years. I bet we can tie in obuma and Holder as accessories and racist agitators.


18 posted on 12/16/2016 5:52:58 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Olog-hai

I would think the perps would be dead or in nursing homes by now.


19 posted on 12/16/2016 5:56:57 PM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Olog-hai

Boy this is really important


20 posted on 12/16/2016 6:07:07 PM PST by nobamanomore
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