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Obama vows to address 'simmering distrust' between police, minorities
yahoo ^ | 12/1/2014 | Steve Holland and Julia Edwards Reuters

Posted on 12/01/2014 4:12:07 PM PST by mdittmar

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made a forceful pledge on Monday to use his last two years in office to address the "simmering distrust" between police and minority communities as he requested $263 million for the federal response to the civil rights upheaval triggered in Ferguson, Missouri.

Obama said he would set up a task force to study how to improve community policing with an eye toward building trust between law enforcement and communities of color. He also said he would consider imposing tighter controls on the proliferation of military-style weaponry and equipment provided to many police departments.

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To: mdittmar

People need to be able to trust the fact that no matter what color, creed, race or religion they are if they do something wrong they are going to jail. Then there is no question of trust or mistrust just people doing their jobs and putting away the criminals. I think that the Giuliani approach is needed country wide.


61 posted on 12/01/2014 6:08:18 PM PST by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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Well,I keep seeing this phrase,"communities of color".

Gotta be a collection colored people.
62 posted on 12/01/2014 6:14:34 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: mdittmar

Dear President Obola:

The distrusted is not between the police and the communities of color. It’s between the American people and you.


63 posted on 12/01/2014 6:15:36 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Guess that means he will tax those that back Darren Wilson.


64 posted on 12/01/2014 6:22:21 PM PST by ully2
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To: mdittmar

Sure that is not ‘smoldering distrust’ after he burns the place down?


65 posted on 12/01/2014 6:23:08 PM PST by UpInArms (without failure there's no success only slavery)
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66 posted on 12/01/2014 6:26:51 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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67 posted on 12/01/2014 6:29:56 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: mdittmar

All this is the result of the Obola presidency.


68 posted on 12/01/2014 6:30:50 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: mdittmar

Yep - he wants that simmer to turn into a boil.


69 posted on 12/01/2014 6:43:55 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: UCANSEE2

Actually, I think you have yer figgers reversed. $200MILL to 0Bola, $53MILL “to the communities.”


70 posted on 12/01/2014 6:52:14 PM PST by RocketMan1 (Creepy White Ass Cracka.)
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What are "communities of color"?

They are the throwback communities that haven't yet become diversified. Evidently that's good if they are all Black, but bad if they are over 27% White...

71 posted on 12/02/2014 4:23:28 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: jsanders2001

Yes, we can all let of a little steam if/when that happens.


72 posted on 12/02/2014 1:34:31 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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