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Barack Obama: No Excuse For Baltimore Riots But America Must Do Some 'Soul Searching'
Telegraph (UK) ^
| April 28, 2015
Posted on 04/28/2015 2:33:51 PM PDT by Steelfish
Barack Obama: No Excuse For Baltimore Riots But America Must Do Some 'Soul Searching'
28 Apr 2015 President Barack Obama has condemned rioting in Baltimore, saying there was "no excuse" for the violence which erupted after the funeral of a black man who was injured in police custody. Freddie Gray, 25, was laid to rest on Monday. He died following a spinal injury sustained in police custody. Following the funeral, rioters took to the streets of Baltimore, torching cars, pelting police with stones and looting businesses in the city. Despite his condemnation of the rioters, Obama acknowledged a "slow-rolling crisis" in community policing, especially in treatment of African Americans. "We have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals primarily African American, often poor in ways that raise troubling questions," he told reporters at the White House. "I think there are police departments that have to do some soul-searching. I think there's some communities that have to do some soul-searching. I think we as a country have to do some soul-searching."
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; blackkk; elijahcummings; maryland
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:33:51 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
To: Steelfish
Good cop, bad cop routine.
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:34:42 PM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(American Jobs for American Workers)
To: Steelfish
Search your own soul asshole
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:35:45 PM PDT
by
Breto
(Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
To: Steelfish
Obama: “ I hay why people”
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:35:53 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Steelfish
The democrats are sliding toward reparations. Hairy Roid is saying the GOP congress needs to “invest” in the cities but won’t.
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:36:40 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: Steelfish
I think we as a country have to do some soul-searching.”
WE HAVE...GOODBYE!!!
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:36:59 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Steelfish
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:37:02 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: VRW Conspirator
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:37:04 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: Steelfish
So we have to be liberal about alleged problems in the black community interactions with police. OK, Mr.pres. got it. Gotta be liberal,.,........
To: Tijeras_Slim
Dear president jerkwad,
I don’t have to do any soul searching cause
your soul brotha’s are acting like feral animals
because of a situation YOU caused.
Thanks,
America.
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:38:42 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Steelfish
“I think there are police departments that have to do some soul-searching. I think there's some communities that have to do some soul-searching. I think we as a country have to do some soul-searching.”
I can't imagine a more stupid or arrogant statement. Obama and the Democrats including the Mayor of Baltimore are the ones who need to do “soul searching."
That would be if any of them even had a soul.
To: Steelfish
ON YOUR KNEES, AMERICA!!
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:39:27 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
To: Steelfish
No soul searching for me. I have made most of my lifestyle choices correctly. Let the thugs do the searching.
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:40:59 PM PDT
by
oyez
(Hell is a gun free zone.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
No soul searching here. Just weapons cleaning. Best done while watching Baltimore burn.
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:41:06 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
To: stephenjohnbanker
Using common sense, he must mean we should arm ourselves to protect our families from the thugs who would loot, then burn down our homes and cities.
To: Steelfish
So the “Race Baiter In Chief” thinks we should do some “soul searching”> How about telling the animals in Baltimore to cut the crap and start behaving like human beings.
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:42:44 PM PDT
by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
To: Steelfish; All
If there is NO excuse for the riots, why ask for those who didn’t participate to search their souls? Shouldn’t Obama ask the guilty parties to search THEIR souls ?
Obama, you racist POS, search YOUR soul!
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:42:48 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Steelfish
I'm searching my soul, trying to figure out why we've spent so many trillions of dollars on the cities and their inhabitants, when it clearly has done no good whatsoever and has gone completely unappreciated.
Considering the lack of results in this massive effort, it appears, after much additional soul-searching, that we need to ask for our money back.
And I'll further search my soul in an effort to determine how Bronko Bama can help us get these ill-spent trillions back to us, the taxpayers.
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:42:50 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: MamaDearest
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posted on
04/28/2015 2:43:39 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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