Posted on 09/18/2017 2:47:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
This is the fourth day of protests in St. Louis after the acquittal of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, who had been charged with murder in the shooting of a black driver, and President Trump still hasn't said anything.
He found time Sunday to retweet a GIF of himself hitting his 2016 presidential rival in the back with a golf ball, a projection of his estimated value to Twitter (approximately $2 billion) and a cartoon showing him literally bringing jobs back to the United States from overseas.
But he has yet to comment — on Twitter or otherwise — on an incident that is a microcosm of one of the major conversations during the presidential campaign: the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color.
There must be a way for Trump to address the strife in a state he won while continuing to respect his base. For a president who has record low favorability ratings, particularly among black voters, Trump's silence seems to confirm one of their biggest fears about his administration: that Trump does not care about the challenges affecting black Americans.
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It’s a local issue, POTUS has bigger fish to fry. Antifa/BLM/Soros/CPUSA all want a national stage.
We should take a note from Napolean to deny the enemy what he wants, because he wants it.
Why should he promote looting and stealing.
And property destruction.
... Who led them on a high-speed chase (87 MPH) weaving into oncoming traffic endangering the General Public.
That animal didn't care about other people's lives, why should anyone care about his?
The activists don’t deserve the attention they would draw if Trump reacted. I’m glad he’s ignoring this.
WaPoo seems to believe that they’re living in some sort of reality tv show where the host has to bless their obsession du jour in order to validate it and make it “real.” I suspect the media coverage is what the agitators and instigators of this actually want, so why give it to them? Giving them notoriety will only encourage more.
“But he has yet to comment — on Twitter or otherwise — on an incident that is a microcosm of one of the major conversations during the presidential campaign: the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color.”
Translation:
Trump has yet to fall into the trap of embroiling himself in the Marxist narrative that he is a racist supporter of racist cops.
Just like michael brown was an unarmed, black teenager and not an adult that had just committed a robbery with violence, resisted a legitimate arrest with violence and attempted to take the officer's gun.
Ten dead in Chicago on average every week including this weekend. Why doesn’t the media/BLM acknowledge the inner city holocaust of black on black violence?
Well, why should he?
It’s not as if rioting by half civilized, brain dead blacks and air headed, self loathing whites is an unusual event.
If anyone is uncertain as to what happened, read the decision. Here it is:
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/7b/57b2d12c-83d8-53a0-ba1f-18b659a7e569/59bbe0a450230.pdf.pdf
C.W.
Well, he didn’t actually re-tweet that picture, so there’s that for fake journalism.
And does this guy want Trump to go on twitter and say “why are these minorities causing so much violence”? Probably not.
Does he want Trump to say the criminal justice system should be abolished because it frees innocent people even when the mob wants them to be punished? I doubt we would like that.
And if he did, he’d be called a racist.
The WP is full of something. Not sure what it is, but it sure isn’t pancakes.
He went to trial and won. Get over it losers.
The “author” as predictable as the last time he had weird “eyes” implanted.
Has Obama acknowledged that ten people were shot dead over the weekend in Chicago?
and he should not give them any notice, ditto-Hilary.
they don’t deserve his attention - or ours!!
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