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Ignoring Personal Responsibility Is a Riot
Townhall ^ | Apr 29, 2015 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 04/29/2015 1:32:55 PM PDT by yuffy

Hours after residents of Baltimore, Maryland, set the city aflame, President Barack Obama took to the Rose Garden to explain in professorial style just why America, under his administration, keeps watching young black men loot buildings and attack police officers. "We have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals -- primarily African-American, often poor -- in ways that have raised troubling questions. And it comes up, it seems like, once a week now, or once every couple weeks," Obama said, proclaiming that police brutality against blacks amounted to a "slow-rolling crisis." He added, "This is not new, and we shouldn't pretend that it's new."

Obama's disgusting implication was, of course, that a massive trend of police violence mirroring the racist police violence of the 1950s has broken out across America. That's false. Your chances in America of being killed by hornet attack are 1 in 56,000; your chances in America of being killed by a police officer if you are a black man are 1 in 60,000. Nonetheless, Obama continued by suggesting that police forces had to "do some soul searching," that "some communities ... have to do some soul searching," and that America as a whole had to do some "soul searching."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: responsibility; riot; thugs

1 posted on 04/29/2015 1:32:55 PM PDT by yuffy
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To: yuffy
I wish this piece of crap King Obama would just shut up and go back to Kenya. AND STAY THERE.
2 posted on 04/29/2015 1:38:39 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: yuffy

Why would any white person want to be a big city cop these days? They face death every day while getting paid peanuts, and now even if they do their job properly they are at great risk of being canned for “racism”. Is the goal for the rats to take over all of the big city police forces and turn them into riot enablers like in Baltimore?


3 posted on 04/29/2015 6:29:54 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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