Posted on 12/20/2014 6:30:24 PM PST by maggief
Attorney General Eric Holder condemned the “senseless” shooting of two New York City police Saturday, and pledged the full resources of the Justice Department to assist in the investigation of the ambush killings.
“This was an unspeakable act of barbarism, and I was deeply saddened to hear of the loss of these two brave officers in the line of duty,” Holder said in a statement. “On behalf of all those who serve in the United States Department of Justice, I want to express my heartfelt condolences to the officers' loved ones and colleagues.”
A White House official confirmed that President Obama was briefed, and that White House officials will continue to monitor the situation.
New York City police commissioner William Bratton said earlier Saturday that the two officers, Wenjin Liu and Raphael Ramos, were shot without warning while sitting in their parked patrol car. The suspect, 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, then ran to a nearby subway station and fatally shot himself. Bratton said Brinsley had shot his ex-girlfriend earlier Saturday in Baltimore, and posted messages to his social media accounts “which were very anti-police.”
The killings came amid criticism of the New York City police department following the death of Eric Garner, a black man who died when police officers arresting him for selling illegal cigarettes placed him in a chokehold.
A grand jury decided earlier this month not to indict officers in the death, just days after a similar panel in Ferguson, Mo., opted not to charge Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown.
The New York Post published a series of pictures reportedly from Brinsley’s Instagram page that references Brown and Garner and intimates plans to kill police officers in retaliation. The Instagram account is no longer active.
Al Sharpton, who has served as a spokesman for Garner’s family, condemned the shootings in a post to Twitter.
“I am outraged at the killing of 2 police officers in Brooklyn,” Sharpton said. “That is why we stress non violence as the only way to fight for justice.”
President Obama earlier this week signed an executive order establishing a task force dedicated to finding ways to improve relations between communities and their police forces, and Holder himself traveled around the country in recent weeks for a series of roundtable discussions on the subject.
Holder referenced that effort in his statement Saturday on the New York police shooting.
"Our nation must always honor the valor -- and the sacrifices -- of all law enforcement officers with a steadfast commitment to keeping them safe,” he said. “This means forging closer bonds between officers and the communities they serve, so that public safety is not a cause that is served by a courageous few, but a promise that's fulfilled by police officials and citizens working side by side."
Another one of obamas sons just following the activists Muslim ideology
What a jerk. Grandstanding over the bodies of two NYPD.
Did you see the video where the cops all turned their backs on Warren Wilhelm, Jr. (aka Bill de Blasio, aka Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm) posted here?
A White House official confirmed that President Obama was briefed, and that White House officials will continue to monitor the situation.
There’s a genocide underway against young blacks. President Obama should be hunkered down on a cot in the situation room until this impass is resolved, not playing golf at a tropical resort.
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Go Away Holder ,it’s not going to work
I though this sonofabitch resigned. He needs to STFU and leave town... or is he waiting around to be a martyr too?
And promptly, after a hearty laugh, resumed golfing.
FUBO.
Well of course they have to say this stuff, because this is in fact nearly the worst that could have happened.
Politically this is a disaster for them.
It probably means the end of their current project to whip up their base for turnout in 2016.
Now they will have to ditch the Ferguson/Garner thing and find some other race war angle, though this incident may warn them off from that entirely. It should be terribly clear now that this really is playing with fire, and their own side can get burned.
They can’t control their troops, nor can they keep the nuts out. Wiser people would have understood these risks, and how implausible it would be to keep it up for months - or two years! - with no blowback.
Looking on the bright side it may be best that this happened now, barely at the beginning, and not much later, as this campaign could have created a far more bloody incident.
CYA TIME!
He and his ilk are to blame for stoking all of their anti cop hatred and now they want to have it both ways.
“What do we want?”
“Dead cops!”
“When do we want ‘em?”
“NOW!”
OK, Holder, The WON, Mayor DeBlabbio, Runnin’ Reverends, you got your wish!
Where's the half (single wide) Bridge Builder (Slick) hisself?
It’s not hypocrisy. It takes a barbarian to know a barbarian.
These liberals keep kicking at the structures that support American civilization and then act surprised when things fall down. They’re not idiots, they’re evil.
Those are “your people” Holder....
http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/17/obama-told-civil-rights-activists-keep-ferguson-staying-on-course/
Obama Told Civil Rights Activists: Keep Ferguson ‘Staying On Course’
11/17/2014
EXCERPT
When Obama met with a group of civil rights activists including Rev. Al Sharpton at the White House on Nov. 5, the day after his party’s defeat in the midterm elections, he expressed his commitment to keeping the protests in Ferguson “on course.”
Sharpton said Obama “was concerned about Ferguson staying on course in terms of pursuing what it was that he knew we were advocating. He said he hopes that we’re doing all we can to keep peace,” according to the 21st paragraph of a New York Times article.
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FLASHBACK:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3195872/posts
Sharpton a key advisor to Obama on Ferguson (reported back directly to Valerie Jarrett)
NY Post ^ | August 22, 2014 | Pat Bailey
EXCERPT
While in Ferguson, Sharpton met with the Brown family and reported back directly to Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama’s closest aides.
Sharpton was directed to find out specific information including what the Brown family wanted from the White House, Politico reports.
The veteran activist, who is also leading Saturday’s march on Staten Island against police brutality in New York, even suggested Jarrett turn up the heat on Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, and appoint a special prosecutor to replace St. Louis prosecutor Bob McCulloch in the Brown case.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/al-sharpton-obama-race-110249.html#ixzz3KNRc827d
Revved Up
How Al Sharpton became Obama’s go-to man on race.
By GLENN THRUSH
August 21, 2014
EXCERPTS
...In Ferguson, Sharpton established himself as a de facto contact and conduit for a jittery White House seeking to negotiate a middle ground between meddling and disengagement. “There’s a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down,” a White House official familiar with their dealings told me. “He gets it, and he’s got credibility in the community that nobody else has got. There’s really no one else out there who does what he does.”
And the White House, as the crisis following Brown’s death seemed to flare out of control, worked extensively behind the scenes to maximize The Rev’s doing what he does, using him as both a source of information and a go-between. After huddling with Brown’s family and local community leaders, Sharpton connected directly with White House adviser and First Friend Valerie Jarrett, vacationing in her condo in the exclusive Oak Bluffs section of Martha’s Vineyard, not far from where President Obama and his family were staying. Obama was “horrified” by the images he was seeing on TV, Jarrett told Sharpton, and proceeded to pepper him with questions as she collected information for the president: How bad was the violence? Was it being fueled by outside groups—and could Sharpton do anything to talk them down? What did the Brown family want the White House to do?
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Sharpton told me in an interview this week, and indeed Sharpton not only visits the White House frequently, he often texts or emails with senior Obama officials such as Jarrett and Attorney General Eric Holder, the first African American to hold that job and who, like Sharpton, views the Ferguson crisis as a pivotal one in Obama’s presidency.
“I’ve known Al since he was 12 years old, and he’s arrived at the level he always wanted to arrive at, which is gratifying,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a colleague and sometimes rival, told me. “He’s the man who’s the liaison to the White House, he’s the one who’s talking to the Justice Department.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/11/26/MO-Lt-Gov-We-Want-To-See-Communications-Between-Gov-and-WH
MO LT GOV: WE WANT TO SEE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN GOV AND WH
26 Nov 2014
Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder (R) reported that he and leaders in the Missouri House and Senate are filing a request to see the communications between the White House and Governor Jay Nixon (D) to see if the White House pressured Nixon not to send the National Guard to Ferguson on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
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FLASHBACK:
NEW YORK TIMES AUGUST 18, 2014
EXCERPTS
In Washington, President Barack Obama said that Attorney General Eric Holder would go to Ferguson on Wednesday to meet with FBI agents conducting a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting. He seemed less than enthusiastic about the decision to call in the National Guard.
Obama said he had told the governor in a phone call on Monday that the Guard should be “used in a limited and appropriate way.”
He said he would be closely monitoring the deployment.
“I’ll be watching over the next several days to assess whether in fact it’s helping rather than hindering progress in Ferguson,” said Obama, who emphasized that the state of Missouri, not the White House, had called in the Guard.
http://tbo.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140818/ARTICLE/140819235&template=printart
Holder headed to Ferguson on Wednesday, will oversee federal response to shooting
By EMILY WAX-THIBODEAUX, DENEEN L. BROWN AND JERRY MARKON
The Washington Post.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
FERGUSON, Mo. — President Barack Obama on Monday dispatched the attorney general to personally oversee the government’s response to the fatal police shooting 10 days ago of an unarmed black teenager, the latest step in an extensive federal investigation that was expanding even as National Guard troops moved onto the restive streets of this St. Louis suburb.
Attorney General Eric Holder will meet Wednesday in Ferguson with some of the FBI agents and prosecutors who have already interviewed more than 200 people as they scour the area where 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer. Holder pledged “the full resources” of his department to investigate Brown’s death, which has triggered unrest so severe that Missouri’s governor on Monday called in the state’s National Guard.
Behind the scenes, the administration worked to reassure some in the civil rights community that the nation’s first black president sees the Ferguson crisis as an important moment. In a conference call Monday with civil rights groups, Holder and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett - perhaps Obama’s closest confidant - said the case is a top priority.
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That was the first thing I checked, too.
That was it, and I tried to post it, but some of the chant was off from memory. It was ‘dead cops’. I had the jest of Kill cops and white cops, but it was ‘dead cops. Thank you.
Yup. He has to resign, I think. There’s no way around it. He apparently thought it would help him politically to cast his lot with the race-baiters. He was wrong.
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