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Obama on deadly police shootings of black men: 'We can do better'
Los Angeles Times ^ | July 7, 2016 | Michael A. Memoli and Christi Parsons

Posted on 07/08/2016 6:03:50 AM PDT by artichokegrower

President Obama decried the deadly shootings of two black men by police this week, citing a litany of statistics showing blacks are more vulnerable to such violence, but he also spoke at length about the difficult work of law enforcement and asked that divided communities try to rebuild trust.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: moralistinchief; obama; rhetoric
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"I would just ask those who question the sincerity or the legitimacy of protests and vigils and expressions of outrage, who somehow label those expressions of outrage as quote- unquote political correctness, I just ask folks to step back and think, what if this happened to somebody in your family? How would you feel?” Obama said.


Hey Obama why don't you ask the families of those Dallas police officers that question this morning?

1 posted on 07/08/2016 6:03:50 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower
'We can do better'

That can be interpreted a couple different ways.

2 posted on 07/08/2016 6:05:57 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: artichokegrower

STFU Barry. America is tired of your racist rhetoric.


3 posted on 07/08/2016 6:06:18 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: artichokegrower

How curious, just yesterday I was saying something bad is going to happen to get Hillary off the headlines, and here we are.


4 posted on 07/08/2016 6:06:34 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (By His wounds we are healed.)
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To: artichokegrower

Every time this guy opens his mouth in faked indignation, PEOPLE DIE shortly thereafter.

EVERY SINGLE TIME....


5 posted on 07/08/2016 6:06:34 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: artichokegrower

My inappropriate first thought was: 5 Police Dead, Good enough obama?


6 posted on 07/08/2016 6:06:59 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: artichokegrower

“I [Obama] just ask folks to step back and think, what if this happened to somebody in your family? How would you feel?”

Last night, Obama got what he has been promoting.


7 posted on 07/08/2016 6:07:30 AM PDT by odawg
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To: artichokegrower
Perhaps the movement should checks the stats:


8 posted on 07/08/2016 6:09:41 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Good enough, Obama?

Dear Protect the Bill of Rights:

Well, it's a start.

Best regards,

Barack

9 posted on 07/08/2016 6:09:47 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: artichokegrower

I’ll be glad when we are rid of these pompous Obama lectures. It’s not about PC. What an irrelevancy. Obama likes to draw moral equivalence in situations like these. We get statements along the pattern: “What happened was awful, but we have to come together and we all have to put a stop to it.” Such drivel. The scale of the shooting in Dallas was quite beyond the scale of the shootings by one officer, lamentable as those were. Dallas was opportunism and exploitation, and that has to be condemned and stopped. There’s no parity.


10 posted on 07/08/2016 6:09:52 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: Tijeras_Slim

As in ‘we need to step up the infringement on law abiding citizens to possess these “high powered” weapons that should never leave the battle field’? So, when will we get the info on where the weapons used came from? Did the perps obtain them legally? Were they part of the failed fast and furious collection of “lost” weapons? And the lyin’ king keeps stokin’.


11 posted on 07/08/2016 6:09:57 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: artichokegrower

‘We can do better’

No you can’t Mr. Obama! Neither you nor Hillary know how to fix this mess. If you knew how to fix it, you would have by now.

We will elect Trump, and you and Hillary will get out of the way.


12 posted on 07/08/2016 6:10:47 AM PDT by jokemoke
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To: artichokegrower

MOST DIVISIVE PRESIDENT EVER!


13 posted on 07/08/2016 6:10:53 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

That can be interpreted a couple different ways.

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You’re exactly right about that. It all depends on what the meaning of the word ‘better’ is. You can be sure that Obama has an ‘expansive’ definition of it. Everything he says and does is about controlling people.


14 posted on 07/08/2016 6:12:13 AM PDT by Starboard
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I just ask folks to step back and think, what if this happened to somebody in your family? How would you feel?” Obama said.

How would I feel if the BEHAVIOR of someone in my family made it necessary for the police to shoot them?

15 posted on 07/08/2016 6:13:09 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: jokemoke
If you knew how to fix it, you would have by now not have broken it.

Fixed that for ya. ;)

16 posted on 07/08/2016 6:14:25 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: artichokegrower

Someone on Fox this morning saying (numbers are rough as best as I can remember)

550 killed by cops this year

280 whites. 150 blacks the rest Hispanic.

Who is here to defend all those whites killed by cops ? White lives matter!

ALL LIVES MATTER!! And cops do make mistakes.


17 posted on 07/08/2016 6:14:49 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: artichokegrower

He could do better. His grades at being president probably were foreshadowed by his horrible grades at school.


18 posted on 07/08/2016 6:15:19 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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How many people have died as a result of th illegal immigrant invasion this SOB has thrown upon us that would dare make a statement like that???


19 posted on 07/08/2016 6:15:32 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Genoa

these pompous Obama lectures

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He’s an arrogant narcissist who always looks to blame someone else for his own failings to lead and unify.


20 posted on 07/08/2016 6:15:59 AM PDT by Starboard
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