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Black Caucus condemns Ferguson shooting on House floor
The Hill's Floor Action ^ | September 8, 2014 | Cristina Marcos

Posted on 09/08/2014 8:50:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Congressional Black Caucus took to the House floor Monday night to condemn the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. last month.

Monday was the first legislative sessions since Brown, an African American teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer on August 9.

Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), who represents Ferguson, said that deaths like Brown’s had become too common. "This much cannot be disputed: Across America today, we have too many Michael Browns. We have too many unarmed black men who interact with police and wind up dead," Clay said.

"The resolution of that problem will only come through a painful, honest national discussion about race and our inability to address these tragic disparities," Clay added.

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), who represents the district where black teenager Trayvon Martin was shot in 2012 in an alleged case of racial profiling, said both deaths highlighted longstanding tensions.

"There is so much friction between police and black boys. That friction has been there for generations, almost since slavery," Wilson said.

Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) said the militarization of police forces seen in Ferguson exacerbated the conflict between officers and protesters.

"This excessive use of force often provokes animosity instead of building the cooperation needed to combat violence," Fudge said.

The floor speeches from the Congressional Black Caucus came a day before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee holds a hearing on the Ferguson shooting. The hearing will be chaired by Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill (D).

Clay pledged to bring justice to Brown's case.

"I made a promise to Michael Brown's mother that we would focus every possible federal resource on this case in an effort to bring justice for her son's death," Clay said.


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: blacks; darrenwilson; ferguson; michaelbrown
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Congressman Lacy Clay

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson

1 posted on 09/08/2014 8:50:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m shocked, shocked I say! Oh and could you please tell me when they are going to go on the floor to condemn the murder and beatings of Whites and others by Black thugs?


2 posted on 09/08/2014 8:52:53 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When I read your post, my first thought was "Screw the Black Caucus".
3 posted on 09/08/2014 8:55:19 PM PDT by Bronzy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“We have too many Michael Browns”

You got that right


4 posted on 09/08/2014 8:58:59 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Michael Brown was the attacker . . . just like Thugvon. Second verse, same as the first)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The resolution of that problem will only come through a painful, honest national discussion about race...

discussing race won't resolve anything.

5 posted on 09/08/2014 9:01:10 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope the police stop protecting them.


6 posted on 09/08/2014 9:02:14 PM PDT by Williams
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lets Give it up for Marcia Fudge Ladies and Gentleman..

Marcia Fudge the hardest working mouth in the race pimp bidness



who could IMAGINE!
7 posted on 09/08/2014 9:04:11 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“black men who interact with police”

When he says “interact,” he means “brawl”?

“Interact”. That’s pretty funny. Like it’s a job fair and the cop is educating homies on careers with the Po Po; e.g.
“If some dog is disrespectin’ you, why—just blow him away!”


8 posted on 09/08/2014 9:06:36 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: RC one

Not that the CBC is willing to discuss it.


9 posted on 09/08/2014 9:09:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The way the headline reads, it sounds like the CBC is condemning someone named Ferguson who shot someone/something on the House floor.


10 posted on 09/08/2014 9:10:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Opportunists all of them. They created this black dependency and now they blame it on others. Total pigs.


11 posted on 09/08/2014 9:12:14 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As soon as the Caucasian Caucus chimes in, I’ll listen to both sides. Till then, these blacks are racists.


12 posted on 09/08/2014 9:12:33 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did they condemn the racist violent attacks by the black thugs in Memphis on the whites that were actually working?

Did they condemn the racist violent attack by the black thugs in Springfield, MO on the young white man and woman?

If not, they can all choke on their hypocrisy.


13 posted on 09/08/2014 9:18:59 PM PDT by boycott
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HOW about a rational, objective discussion based on a full and detailed account of the facts permeating and surrounding this incident?


14 posted on 09/08/2014 9:19:49 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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I won’t mock Fredericka’s sequined cowgirl (?) hat, but I will say, from the look of her eyebrows, if she gets another face-lift she’ll have a goatee.
She’s got more chins than a Chinese phone book.
Joan Rivers


15 posted on 09/08/2014 9:25:39 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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Cops still endorse democrats and this won’t change it.


16 posted on 09/08/2014 9:26:10 PM PDT by reefdiver (The fool says there is no God. And the bigger fools sees direct evidence and rages against it.)
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That’s just retaliation for me condemning the black caucus. Weird huh?


17 posted on 09/08/2014 9:27:26 PM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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Q. What's the difference between a member of the Black Crook Caucus and a felon doing time in prison?

A. The Black Crook Caucus hasn't been convicted yet.


18 posted on 09/08/2014 9:33:32 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Can’t wait for the aircraft carrier “USS Gentle Giant” to be launched. His mother can christen the carrier with Swisher Sweets and one of the bottles of booze left at his curbside memorial.


19 posted on 09/08/2014 9:33:38 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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As soon as the Caucasian Caucus chimes in, I’ll listen to both sides. Till then, these blacks are racists.

Yes, I was kind of wondering what the Congressional White Caucus has to say on the subject. Otherwise, F the CBC.

20 posted on 09/08/2014 9:44:21 PM PDT by Mark17 (If I have a son, I am going to name him Bill, George, Sue, anything but Barack Hussein Obama)
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