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Obama: Mistrust of police corrodes America
The Saint Paul Pioneer Press ^ | September 27, 2014 | Darlene Superville

Posted on 09/27/2014 9:20:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

President Barack Obama on Saturday said the widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri, is corroding America, not just its black communities, and that the wariness flows from significant racial disparities in the administration of justice.

Speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual awards dinner, Obama said these suspicions only harm communities that need law enforcement the most....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; darlenesuperville; ferguson; obama; police; policemilitarization; racism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is just offensive


21 posted on 09/27/2014 9:51:24 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Retired Chemist

That could’ve been yesterday, 10 years ago, 50 years ago or a century or more in the past.


22 posted on 09/27/2014 9:51:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Cementjungle

The way he cleverly weaves the lie into a true statement makes me wonder if he is the Antichrist.

He presents hollow compassion, feigned outrage, and leadership without leading. Always a contradiction in self or some other trivial superficiality.

He accurately states the corrosive nature of distrust while ignoring his efforts to create distrust.

He is a destroyer.


23 posted on 09/27/2014 9:52:12 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Blue Jays

And he is surrounded by the same.


24 posted on 09/27/2014 9:52:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

So every police officer, deputy sheriff and other law enforcement officer here is corrupt, fascist, a jackbooted thug, a dog killer or racist. Where the ^^^^ do you live at?


25 posted on 09/27/2014 9:54:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So the solution is, lemme guess:

1. Funding black poverty MORE

2. Having 100% black cops

Right?

I wonder what it’s like these days, to be a lefty with a president who constantly lies, constantly golfs, constantly spies on Americans, and then decries the public loss of faith in cops and then admonishes that we need to trust cops more.

How much does it burn...?


26 posted on 09/27/2014 10:04:25 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

all of his much ballyhooed, sky high promises have come to nothing and with the approaching election he is simply trying to energize his black base, because there is no other reason other then pure racial animosity for them to vote for Obama.

Consider the irony carefully:

his most prominent First Immaculation promise was the idea of washing away racial animosity. But here his one strong card for November is to dramatically intensify interracial strife.

I strongly think that the biggest aggravating factor in Ferguson at this late date is the federal government, who wants troubles there to not improve one smidgen until the day after the election.


27 posted on 09/27/2014 10:14:54 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So every police officer, deputy sheriff and other law enforcement officer here is corrupt, fascist, a jackbooted thug, a dog killer or racist. Where the ^^^^ do you live at?

Wow! Nice Straw Man!!!!

I live in the remnants of America.

28 posted on 09/27/2014 10:19:14 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: Forgotten Amendments; 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t see what is straw man about that.

Not all cops and LE are bad.


29 posted on 09/27/2014 10:31:16 PM PDT by berdie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama’s already got our military opposing him......he’s ow doing a fine job of alienating the police forces...

I say let him do so...they’ll be with the people if it ever comes to that.


30 posted on 09/27/2014 10:34:15 PM PDT by caww
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To: Bogey78O

....”He accurately states the corrosive nature of distrust while ignoring his efforts to create distrust......He is a destroyer”....

Oh without doubt.


31 posted on 09/27/2014 10:36:50 PM PDT by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s what is going to come of all this: As the USA gets more lawless the police & government are going to back off the criminals & put more & more pressure on the rest of us who pay taxes & follow the law. The path of lest resistance...


32 posted on 09/27/2014 11:06:45 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cops should take whatever beating Obama’s boys want to give them, especially white cops.


33 posted on 09/27/2014 11:10:43 PM PDT by pallis
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a filthy POS. BHO mmmm...mmmm...mmmm


34 posted on 09/27/2014 11:39:40 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Blue Jays
Obama...is absolutely relentless in his hatred for America...

As the saying goes; they hate us because they can't be us. Even with Affirmative Action - they can't be us.

35 posted on 09/28/2014 12:06:10 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: caww
Obama’s already got our military opposing him.....

I don't know where you get that. He has spent almost six years firing senior officers who said they will not fire on American citizens. He has done all he can to fill the ranks with homosexuals (who Ion Pacepa refers to as basically natural-born traitors, in his book, 'Disinformation'). And he is now going to fill the ranks with illegals, who will certainly not oppose Obama.

I think he has gone a long way toward transforming the military into opposing Americans. And the police are being transformed, as well, along with the gun-toting federal alphabet agencies.

36 posted on 09/28/2014 12:14:51 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: Retired Chemist

I remember local cops complaining about the “no snitch attitude” in the African American community.
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Same rule is applied in many Hispanic communities where people haven’t assimilated into a mixed community norm.


37 posted on 09/28/2014 12:29:39 AM PDT by octex
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s right in that public mistrust of cops is way up there. And it’s not a black thing.


38 posted on 09/28/2014 1:20:17 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: berdie

All cops believe you’re guilty. Of what? Whatever comes to mind.


39 posted on 09/28/2014 1:23:02 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Never was racist prior to obammy.
I sure as hell am now, to hell with em all.


40 posted on 09/28/2014 2:45:25 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Obammy lied and lied and lied.)
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