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Obamas: Chauvin Jury 'Did The Right Thing' But 'We Cannot Rest'
NPR ^ | 4/20/2021 | Benjamin Swasey

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News
KEYWORDS: chauvin; chauvinguilty; derekchauvin; georgefloyd; minneapolis; minnesota; obama; obamalegacy; obamaracebaiter; obamaracist; obamatroublemaker; police; trial
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To: simpson96
We will need to redouble efforts to expand economic opportunity for those communities that have been too long marginalized.

So, fentanyl users who pass counterfeit bills and then resist arrest is now a "community"?

21 posted on 04/20/2021 5:14:54 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: simpson96

So Barry you had 8 years why didn’t you do this for your brothers & sisters


22 posted on 04/20/2021 5:17:10 PM PDT by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)
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To: simpson96

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


23 posted on 04/20/2021 5:21:55 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: simpson96

I’m so sick of this @#$&.


24 posted on 04/20/2021 5:22:53 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: simpson96

Justice as a team sport?


25 posted on 04/20/2021 5:28:46 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: simpson96

TRANSLATION: “Kill Whitey.”


26 posted on 04/20/2021 5:32:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: 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.

Did they release this statement while staying at their Martha's Vineyard estate?

27 posted on 04/20/2021 5:32:59 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: hoe_cake

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.


28 posted on 04/20/2021 5:34:18 PM PDT by MachIV
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To: simpson96

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.


29 posted on 04/20/2021 5:35:13 PM PDT by WinstonSmith1984 ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, 1984)
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To: MachIV

“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.


30 posted on 04/20/2021 5:39:07 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: simpson96

I put a lot of stock in lawyers who had to turn in their licenses because of insurance fraud. /s/


31 posted on 04/20/2021 5:48:45 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: simpson96

“cannot rest” — until whitey is wiped out.


32 posted on 04/20/2021 5:49:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Real happiness is one that you share)
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To: Texas Eagle
We will need to redouble efforts to expand economic opportunity for those communities that have been too long marginalized.

...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.

33 posted on 04/20/2021 5:53:41 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Real happiness is one that you share)
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To: simpson96

Once a community agitator, always a community agitator.


34 posted on 04/20/2021 6:00:32 PM PDT by falcon99 (qu)
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To: simpson96

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.


35 posted on 04/20/2021 6:04:54 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (E)
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To: simpson96

None of the jurors wanted to be targeted by Burn Loot Murder.

Chauvin never stood a chance.


36 posted on 04/20/2021 6:14:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: simpson96

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.


37 posted on 04/20/2021 7:38:16 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: windsorknot

Same. It’s a lost cause.


38 posted on 04/20/2021 9:16:57 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: simpson96

Adolf and Eva loved George Floyd. Why am I not surprised?


39 posted on 04/20/2021 9:51:28 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: simpson96

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.


40 posted on 04/20/2021 10:02:06 PM PDT by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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