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Obama vows to address 'simmering distrust' between police, minorities
yahoo ^ | 12/1/2014 | Steve Holland and Julia Edwards Reuters

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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To: mdittmar
Obama said he would set up a task force . . .

That in itself will cost at least 263 million. Maybe he should throw in a billion or 2 more and do a website.

21 posted on 12/01/2014 4:23:12 PM PST by madprof98
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To: mdittmar

There’s a simmering distrust between Obama and me.

As for communities of color, my color depends on if I have a sunburn or not. Mid summer it might be beet red. Otherwise it is white. So does my community change back and forth?


22 posted on 12/01/2014 4:24:10 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Clown Prince nobama is close to saying what he really feels: He hates you and your family, he hates your Freedom, he hates the Rule of Law, he hates Free Americans, he hates Free America, he hates the Constitution, he hates the Bill of Rights, he hates Caucasians (especially those who work), he hates Decency, he hates Normalcy, he hates Western Civilization (and so forth). Clown Prince nobama is a hate crime. He should be imprisoned for his many crimes. He is a degenerate Destroyer.
23 posted on 12/01/2014 4:24:11 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Until they get sick and tired of the ankle biting underdog.


24 posted on 12/01/2014 4:24:14 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: mdittmar

25 posted on 12/01/2014 4:24:20 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: mdittmar
"Obama vows to address 'simmering distrust' between police, minorities"

If he was serious he'd resign. Better add this one to his lie list.
26 posted on 12/01/2014 4:24:59 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Logical me

This is what he is up to...

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/07/obamas_civilian_national_secur.html

...along with disarming the police.


27 posted on 12/01/2014 4:25:05 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: mdittmar

This is how genocides are begun.

A blueprint is being followed that we have chosen to be wholly ignorant of.

And it may very well cost us our lives because we sit idle and powerless, waiting for some politician to save us from an inevitability being stoked right under our noses.


28 posted on 12/01/2014 4:25:54 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: mdittmar

Is O going to address stealing from a business? The young thug stole cigars. The store owner called the police. And the snowball began.


29 posted on 12/01/2014 4:26:14 PM PST by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: mdittmar

He’s going to arrest Al Sharpton?


30 posted on 12/01/2014 4:26:19 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: madprof98

Whatever it takes to funnel millions of taxpayer dollars to his racist cronies.


31 posted on 12/01/2014 4:29:38 PM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: mdittmar

I am waiting for the March to Jefferson City!

Someone forgot to tell them there is no Interstate Highway and they are going to walk on State Roads.

When you get outside the liberal arm pits of St Louis you can meet a entire new bunch of the show me state folks.

What can possibly go wrong?


32 posted on 12/01/2014 4:30:50 PM PST by hadaclueonce (Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Because Ethanol has Big Corn Lobby)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Ahhhhhh…. you understand.

Good.

So few are willing to recognize the machinations being employed against us.

Genocide is in our near future if this continues without arrest.


33 posted on 12/01/2014 4:31:43 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Verginius Rufus; All

My Brother retired as a state trooper. He has predicted that all police will have cameras on whenever they are on duty, within 10 years. I think that is correct.

But it will not have the effect that Obama and the left think. It won’t because their thinking is not based on reality, but on fantasy. The cameras will reveal the reality, and they will be forced to create even more fantastical conspiracy theories to support their lies.


34 posted on 12/01/2014 4:32:30 PM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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“...President Barack Obama made a forceful pledge on Monday...”


Yet another pivot, he must be getting dizzy...

35 posted on 12/01/2014 4:32:49 PM PST by az_gila
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To: blackdog
BORG
36 posted on 12/01/2014 4:33:20 PM PST by baddog 219
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Impulse control isn’t really “their thing”.


37 posted on 12/01/2014 4:34:52 PM PST by EEGator
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To: mdittmar
"What are "communities of color"? "

Communities that lack uncolored people?

38 posted on 12/01/2014 4:34:52 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: equaviator

If Obama had a son he would look like Michael Brown.

But if Obama had a son would he behave like Trayvon and Michael Brown, and get himself killed due to trying to prove what a tough guy he was?????


39 posted on 12/01/2014 4:36:10 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: mdittmar

Oh yeah .. I feel “confident” that he can improve race relations. (/sarcasm)


40 posted on 12/01/2014 4:38:52 PM PST by RocketMan1 (Creepy White Ass Cracka.)
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