Posted on 08/18/2014 6:10:41 AM PDT by reaganaut1
EDGARTOWN, Mass. — Senior White House aides have made repeated, urgent phone calls to Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri, to state police officials and to civil rights leaders in recent days as President Obama’s administration becomes more deeply involved in trying to maintain peace in Ferguson and to ensure an independent investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager by a white police officer.
White House officials also said Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who is the administration’s most outspoken voice on racial issues, had been in frequent touch with the governor and State Highway Patrol in Missouri as angry protests continued to simmer there. Mr. Holder is scheduled to provide a formal briefing to the president in Washington on Monday, officials said. Both men were returning Sunday from Martha’s Vineyard, where they had been vacationing for the past week.
Mr. Holder announced Sunday that a federal medical examiner would conduct an independent autopsy of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was shot Aug. 9 in Ferguson by Officer Darren Wilson. Officials said the decision was the result of “extraordinary circumstances” in the case, and was part of a civil rights investigation the F.B.I. is conducting.
The order for an additional autopsy may also help the Obama administration to reassure Mr. Brown’s family and others who are suspicious of the state’s investigation and are eager for an independent inquiry, something that Mr. Holder promised the family personally.
Brian Fallon, a Justice Department spokesman, said the department would also consider the results of the first, state-conducted autopsy. There was no indication that federal investigators saw any problems with the local examination. The family has also had a private autopsy conducted.
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Hey Obama, have you talked about the U.S. Marine in a Mexican jail yet? That’s one matter you DO have jurisdiction over, damnit!
Amen.
Why do people keep bringing up the tox report? I’m sure samples have already been submitted but they take weeks to or longer to get done. This isn’t CSI or NCIS. The lab people wont have them back within the hour like in those shows.
One shot: pretty much like Rooster Cogburn shooting the Chinaman’s rat in his kitchen, in True Grit. I think he said he wrote a writ for execution of a wroten rat.
Because they think that IF it showed that MIKE was wigged out on PCP or something, that the riots would cease.
They (we) have FAITH in FACTS. Unfortunately, most of the public doesn't.
It will be second-hand smoke that did it.
That will make the third autopsy. More tax dollars down the drain.
Wilson getting attacked should be a hate crime and a possible civil rights violation. Where are the feds for that?
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