Posted on 09/29/2014 3:16:23 PM PDT by markomalley
Any pretense that President Obama would let justice take its course in Ferguson, MO without his use of the bully pulpit of the presidency to influence or sway events on the ground has been completely thrown out the window.
Saturday night, Obama firmly "took sides" in the Michael Brown case during a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Obama called the shooting an event that exposed the racial divide in America and "scars the hearts of our children."
Fox News reports on Obama's speech and quotes the President using language that could easily be part of an Al Sharpton monologue on MSNBC:
"In too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local residents and law enforcement. Too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement -- guilty of walking while black or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness."
As the Washington Times points out, President Obama then tried to pretend that he would not take a stand on the ongoing investigation, even though he had just referred to the shooting of Brown as an example of "young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement -- guilty of walking while black or driving while black."
At the president’s speech in Washington, the audience included the parents of Mr. Brown, and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., whose agency is conducting a probe to determine whether the slain teen’s civil rights were violated. Mr. Obama said because of the continuing probe, “I won’t comment on the investigation.”
But he added, “We have to close the justice gap — how justice is applied, but also how it is perceived, how it is experienced. That’s what we saw in Ferguson this summer when Michael Brown was killed and the community was divided.”
Mr. Obama said there are “significant racial disparities” in the criminal justice system “in everything from enforcing drug policy to applying the death penalty to pulling people over.”
The remarks are in stark contrast to what the President said in a press conference during the week of rioting in Ferguson following the shooting:
"This is not an argument that there isn’t real crime out there and that law enforcement doesn’t have a difficult job. And you know, that they -- you know, they have to be honored and respected for the danger and difficulty of law enforcement. But what is also true is that given the history of this country, where we can make progress in building up more confidence, more trust, making sure that our criminal justice system is acutely aware of the possibilities of disparities in treatment, there are safeguards in place to avoid those disparities where, you know, training and assistance is provided to local law enforcement who, you know, may just need more information in order to avoid potential disparity."
How about starting with not strong arming convenience store people, slugging policemen and fracturing their eye sockets. Then we can go to the knock-out game and so on.
I know he claims to be a male and have fathered two children, but I still think he’s a great example of Afemitive Action.
But you’re setting those hurdles so high...
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Will he take the side of Colleen Hufford’s family, the woman who was brutally beheaded by one of Obama’s many Muslim sons..nah I didnt think so
Obama shows his fairness. Being half-white and half-black, he does a dis-service to both sides, messes up the families of both sides, and generally screws up everyone’s lives. Yup, he’s fair all right.
I’m not legally informed but couldn’t a defense lawyer use all of Obama’s and Holder’s statements as a deterrent to a fair trial?
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Is it still a stereotype if it’s true?
Has the affirmative-action failure as yet responded to the moozlum chopping off the head of the white woman in OK? Why not?
Everyone here at FR knows he talks out both sides of his mouth but woe that the enemedia would make that known.
If blacks and whites weren’t at ‘war’ with each other, then the target of their anger would have to be aimed somewhere else. Like the President. That is why he and his administration want the race war.
Any attempt to prosecute Officer Wilson should be thrown out now due to a highly prejudiced environment caused directly by 0bama. There is zero chance of any fair trial now.
black muslim chops a womans head off and not a peep, but a black thug robs a store, assaults a store keeper and a cop and he takes the side of the black thug.
Then there is Cambridge, yet another time he jumped in and never knew the facts.
Uh, Barack, is strutting down the middle of a busy street at midday a black thing?
If I’m Wilson’s attorney’s I use this to make this case my client cannot get a fair trial ANYWHERE in this country as Obama and the CBC have so poisoned the environment an impartial jury is impossible and move for immediate dismissal.
Obama did the same thing in the Zimmerman trial, and caught some flak for it.
And he called a cop “stupid” when he stopped a black man breaking into a home.
He obviously doesn’t care about letting the system work.
Biggest looser ever.
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