Posted on 11/25/2014 4:21:14 PM PST by bestintxas
After his appeals largely were disregarded Monday night, President Obama on Tuesday again pleaded for calm and restraint in Ferguson, Mo., and across the country — but this time he also had a warning for those who have resorted to violence, saying looters and anyone else who breaks the law should be prosecuted.
“There are productive ways of responding and expressing those frustrations and there are destructive ways of responding. Burning buildings, torching cars, destroying property, putting people at risk — that’s destructive and there’s no excuse for it,” the president said during a speech in Chicago. “Those are criminal acts, and people should be prosecuted if they engage in criminal acts.” Mr. Obama repeated many of the points he made Monday evening in a White House speech delivered just hours after a Ferguson grand jury decided there should be no charges brought against police officer Darren Wilson in connection with the August shooting death of teenager Michael Brown.
The president again said there are very real problems between some law enforcement agencies and minority groups, with distrust having been built up over decades.
He said he and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will work with civil rights and religious leaders, along with local, county and state officials, to come up with solutions, including making sure police departments are racially representative of the communities they serve.
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So if this goes down and the ethinicy of policemen is that of who is arrested, then 90% of all police departments will be black.
Exactly how does this stop crime?
“Obama says Ferguson looters and lawbreakers should be prosecuted”
Yeah well, Obama says a lot of things...
Does anyone else realize what an absolute pathetic waste of skin this clown is?
Ain't gon'a happen.
With no shame or sense of irony at all.
If there were only more Michael Browns on the police force, things like this will never happen
ME!!!! ME!!!!
Don't forget gay cops too. At least half the police force to be homosexual. Don't think they're going to plan this? Fundamentally transform America.
Another end around move while Holder travels to Ferguson.
and most of the time what he says is the opposite of the truth..
Yeh well King Obama doesn’t mean it. He’s a liar, every time, all the time.
It’s that Taqqiya thing.
Leave to the Fed-UH-real Goobermint to Gomer things Up!
What’s the problem, TOTUS? The police and Guard backed off just like you told them.
Must be their internal polls were terrible this morning.
Hey I know , have your next presser with Al Sharpton.
The agitators and the race-haters and the people enabling and encouraging this violence should be punished as well. That’s going to have to start at the very top. I won’t hold my breath.
“Should be prosecuted” if they’re caught, but nobody will put much energy into catching or indicting them.
Shouldn’t this be labeled satire?/sarc
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