Posted on 04/20/2021 4:59:58 PM PDT by simpson96
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama say a Minneapolis jury "did the right thing" in convicting former police officer Derek Chauvin of murdering George Floyd.
Though they said that justice was done in this case, the nation's first Black president and his wife said in a statement, "we know that true justice is about much more than a single verdict in a single trial."
They added:
"True justice requires that we come to terms with the fact that Black Americans are treated differently, every day. It requires us to recognize that millions of our friends, family, and fellow citizens live in fear that their next encounter with law enforcement could be their last. And it requires us to do the sometimes thankless, often difficult, but always necessary work of making the America we know more like the America we believe in.
"While today's verdict may have been a necessary step on the road to progress, it was far from a sufficient one. We cannot rest. We will need to follow through with the concrete reforms that will reduce and ultimately eliminate racial bias in our criminal justice system. We will need to redouble efforts to expand economic opportunity for those communities that have been too long marginalized."
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So, fentanyl users who pass counterfeit bills and then resist arrest is now a "community"?
So Barry you had 8 years why didn’t you do this for your brothers & sisters
The jurors likely assessed an innocent vote would result in lifetime vitriol and personal danger, so they went on record as finding correctly and hoping a judge would be on the hook for reversal
I’m so sick of this @#$&.
Justice as a team sport?
TRANSLATION: “Kill Whitey.”
Did they release this statement while staying at their Martha's Vineyard estate?
They want to make America the next Rhodesia and where South Africa is today. We are in a similiar situation Rhodesia was in in 1980.
White genocide is the Left’s end game and anyone who is white and unarmed is as good as dead.
This trial was rigged just like the election. Expect these evil bastards to be emboldened because they were able to intimidate the jury. My brother was almost killed twice in the line of duty as a police officer. We are now in a post justice world which is exactly what Barack Obama wants. He is a radical who hates America. He is running the country behind the scenes just like he wants it, while he enjoys all the fruits of our labor. Make no mistake about it. Barack Obama and Valerie Jarret are running the show. PURE EVIL. The FBI, CIA, NSA leaders at the top are all in on it. Justice is now run by their radical friends. Barack Obama wants a race war. He is evil, he knows it and he likes it.
“White genocide is the Left’s end game and anyone who is white and unarmed is as good as dead.”
Thanks to this little hand gun my partner bought to fit my small hands, I am not unarmed. I am a polite lady, but when I get cornered I strike.
I put a lot of stock in lawyers who had to turn in their licenses because of insurance fraud. /s/
“cannot rest” — until whitey is wiped out.
...and burn down all the cities to show the "man" that we mean business. Economic opportunity will really expand when cities are burned-out hulks where only uneducated welfare mommas, gangsters, and welfare babies live and all businesses and stores have abandoned the burned-out ghettos. Shades of the late 60s all over again.
Once a community agitator, always a community agitator.
And when justice is done for the white race it is not enough for the Obamas. They must dig and grovel for more from white people. That is what Barack Obama is all about. For some reason he has this chip on his shoulder. It will not stop until it is satisfied.
None of the jurors wanted to be targeted by Burn Loot Murder.
Chauvin never stood a chance.
This comes from a man, who as President, knew within a few hours of the Michael Brown assault of a police officer and the attempt to take his weapon, resulted in the lawful and correct shooting of Mr. Brown in Ferguson MO. They had African-American witnesses who bravely testified to the truth! Yet this President would not tell the black community that it was a legal, proper and necessary action by the police officer, and therefore to stand down from any racial grievance that they think they may have. Obama would rather let cities burn by his deceit if he and the Democrat Party could draw political power from the rioting, the cancerous identity politics and the racial hate it all created. That is what he did - and that is what despicable humans do. I will never respect him as a leader for that, he is a liar, and a scumbag.
Same. It’s a lost cause.
Adolf and Eva loved George Floyd. Why am I not surprised?
There he goes again! The Obamas just loves inciting hatred and violence. Just look at Chicago. They did and does nothing for Chicago. What evil hateful leaders they are.
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