Posted on 12/03/2014 4:54:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke today on the Eric Garner grand jury decision, bringing up the “black lives matter” refrain and saying people repeat it because, frankly, it just needs to be said more. De Blasio expressed his heartfelt sorrow for Garner’s family and how no family should have to go through what they did.
The mayor even made the case a little personal, talking about his own son Dante and how he worries about his safety every day. “This is now a national moment of grief,” he said. “A national moment of pain.” He even went so far as to say, “We are dealing with centuries of racism that have brought us to this day.”
De Blasio pledged police reform and crackdowns on officers “who don’t live up to the values of the uniform” and again called for peaceful, non-violent protest.
The mayor also relayed that the investigation by U.S. Attorney (and possible next Attorney General) Loretta Lynch will move forward.
Watch de Blasio’s full comments below, via CNN:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
I have heard that Al Sharpton was talking to Eric Holder this week. I also heard he’s been in and out of the whitehouse more than 80 times.
yada-yada-yada.....
A fellow human being was killed. Who cares what the color of his skin was.
Everything with this Commie is about racism..how about cigarette tax brought up to where we are today..so someone needs to get in Bloomberg’s face!
Sharpton has done more for the GOP than Romney and the RNC combined.
GO AL GO!.
What this country really needs right now is a good case of month long “blue flu.” Let the people fend for themselves for a while. These “protesters” need a little attitude adjustment.
Why doesn’t he see fit to mention then the incredible numbers of black-on-everybody else crimes?
Funny, those riots appear to be in, er, how to say it, oh yea, LIBERAL cities.
Your a Racist if you stop Obama from running for a Third Term , is that what this all the is about ?
And if you can’t seem to do that, at least have the sense to stop fighting when you’ve got five cops on you.
I think it might have been worth indicting the cop (I suspect he would have been acquitted anyway), but the “victim” isn’t innocent; when the game changed from selling cigarettes to resisting arrest, anything could happen.
The cop never locked a chokehold in the video; he maintains he used the move taught to them in training.
Now on the Brooklyn “dark stairwell” shooting; I suspect that rookie cop is going to prison.
They wanted their cuttaxes, dammit.
/johnny
What about Zemir Begic? How many Democrat politicians have denounced his racially-motivated murder?
The Democrats seem to think that their war on cops and their war on white people will be winning strategies in a country where most people are law-abiding and where whites are still the majority of the population.
Basically he is saying “BURN THIS BITCH DOWN!!!!”
De Blasio is a total fool!
Bloomturd used to kiss Sharpton’s butt too. They were 2 parasites with a symbiotic relationship.
To #6, Argus:
Glad to see that you studied Italian Communist theoretician Togliatti’s “salami tactics” because most students of history have never heard of them.
Great example of the “salami tactic” was used by Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh to destroy any and all opposition to his grab for power in both the French Occupation, Japanese Occupation and post WW2 periods.
He systematically decimated opposition parties in the “coalition government” (lesson learned here) known as the “Lien Viet” from 1945-47, including wiping out the very powerful and possibly more organized Trotskyite Communist Party of Vietnam led by Ta Thu Than (sp?).
Obama has been using this “salami tactic” to attack and destroy conservative opposition and laws (i.e. the Constitution) since before he was elected president.
That is what reds do and Obama is doing it very well.
If you don’t believe me, look at who the mayors of some our America’s cities are regarding their ideology and you’ll understand (DeBlasio, avowed Marxist, NYC; San Francisco - nobody ever right of Stalin; LA - similar; Oakland - the all red show; Chicago - the late Mayor Washington, hardcore Marxist; Detroit - the late Coleman Young, a lifelong member of the Communist Party USA; etc).
Togliatti and Obama - 1; America - 0
DiCommieo is an @$$hole.
I suspect they are going to go after the Grand Jury process and subject it to Federal standards, oversight, etc.
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