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 ...
This should have been a local story, without all of the Politicos and washed-up celebrities bringing their faux sanctimony to the table.
Harris and others also...as well as Media.....they always want More of More of More.
Obama is right... Blacks are treated differently... they are permitted to murder each other to the tune of 6,000 people and people like Obama and the Left’s Goebbels Media does not bat an eye.
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