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Barack Obama: No Excuse For Baltimore Riots But America Must Do Some 'Soul Searching'
Telegraph (UK) ^ | April 28, 2015

Posted on 04/28/2015 2:33:51 PM PDT by Steelfish

Barack Obama: No Excuse For Baltimore Riots But America Must Do Some 'Soul Searching'

28 Apr 2015 President Barack Obama has condemned rioting in Baltimore, saying there was "no excuse" for the violence which erupted after the funeral of a black man who was injured in police custody. Freddie Gray, 25, was laid to rest on Monday. He died following a spinal injury sustained in police custody. Following the funeral, rioters took to the streets of Baltimore, torching cars, pelting police with stones and looting businesses in the city. Despite his condemnation of the rioters, Obama acknowledged a "slow-rolling crisis" in community policing, especially in treatment of African Americans. "We have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals – primarily African American, often poor – in ways that raise troubling questions," he told reporters at the White House. "I think there are police departments that have to do some soul-searching. I think there's some communities that have to do some soul-searching. I think we as a country have to do some soul-searching."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; blackkk; elijahcummings; maryland
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To: Steelfish

B. Hussein Obama is such a mealy-mouthed pu$$y...


21 posted on 04/28/2015 2:44:08 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Steelfish

F U, Obama!!!


22 posted on 04/28/2015 2:45:39 PM PDT by dadgum (Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
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To: Steelfish

23 posted on 04/28/2015 2:45:54 PM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Steelfish

” Soul searching “ look in the mirror.... Martin Luther King Jr “ content of character “...

The black community needs to look in the mirror and do some soul searching themselves.

Don’t complain if your part of the problem.


24 posted on 04/28/2015 2:47:04 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe like ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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To: Steelfish

Everything you say before the word “but” is a lie.

I have searched my soul, I bought as much ammo as possible. Let’s roll homie.


25 posted on 04/28/2015 2:49:34 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Steelfish

Barry; ‘”Yo mama was a Ho bitch on a good day”...


26 posted on 04/28/2015 2:54:07 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Steelfish

Is he going to have the Justice department find out if these riots are being organized by outsiders?


27 posted on 04/28/2015 2:54:20 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Steelfish
Despite his condemnation of the rioters, Obama acknowledged a "slow-rolling crisis" in community policing, especially in treatment of African Americans. "We have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals – primarily African American, often poor – in ways that raise troubling questions," he told reporters at the White House. "I think there are police departments that have to do some soul-searching. I think there's some communities that have to do some soul-searching. I think we as a country have to do some soul-searching."

There's no other reason then to incite even more violence that a sitting President would ever say something like this. He's done it time and time again the only purpose is to foment discontent.

28 posted on 04/28/2015 2:55:33 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Tijeras_Slim

You know this was Bush’s fault. And Whitey’s.

Sadly, these impoverished, jobless blacks are on the Obama plantation, under the boot of the black hucksters and the Nation of Islam types, the teachers union, and bussed by the same types to vote for more of the same. It’s tragic.


29 posted on 04/28/2015 2:55:42 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Steelfish

My soul is right here, Barry.

Where’s yours?


30 posted on 04/28/2015 2:58:16 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Steelfish
This is more of his "the police acted stupidly" mentality.

If these police acted improperly or criminally, then arrest them, prosecute them and deal with them through our legal system. But if the president says, "I understand why these people are doing what they are doing." he gives these protestors legitimacy and a green light to engage in violence, riot, burn, cause mayhem and destroy property. Once it starts, then it gets escalated by the opportunists, real criminals and anarchists who take the chaos to an even higher level.

Obama, Sharpton, Jackson and all of these black racists need to shut up and stay out of the way. They only make it worse.

31 posted on 04/28/2015 3:00:30 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Steelfish

Democrat’s #1 voting block rioting against a Democrat Administration in a Democrat State.

You Democrats can search your “souls”.

Let me know if you find anything.


32 posted on 04/28/2015 3:02:31 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that - Baltimore's Democrat Mayor)
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To: Steelfish

I’m sure that a lot of Obama voters are doing a little soul-searching as to why they vote that way.


33 posted on 04/28/2015 3:02:56 PM PDT by Mark (Obama Care is now DEMOCRAT CARE)
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To: Steelfish

Which of the rioters and pillagers knew Gray?


34 posted on 04/28/2015 3:04:33 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Us honkies are losing our patience with the lesser races.


35 posted on 04/28/2015 3:05:16 PM PDT by x1stcav (Why does Eleanor Clift always look like her private parts are causing her acute pain?)
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To: Steelfish

Am I ok on my high horse, or should I dismount?


36 posted on 04/28/2015 3:05:52 PM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: combat_boots

From the looks of his arrest record I think they must have all been his customers.


37 posted on 04/28/2015 3:10:19 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Steelfish

“I think we as a country have to do some soul-searching.”

Rubbish, all of it. Someday that Black Plague - Obama - will be gone and on that day, the sun will rise again.


38 posted on 04/28/2015 3:10:34 PM PDT by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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39 posted on 04/28/2015 3:11:27 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: HotHunt

Well said.


40 posted on 04/28/2015 3:13:13 PM PDT by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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