feh...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And?
.. holocaust of black on black violence ...
I could be wrong, but the Chicago gang violence is between bloods, crips, and Mexican/El Salvador drug players. It’s black-on-brown-on black.
Thugs breaking glass are not a concern for the President of the United States. They are a local law enforcement issue unless the local police request help in arresting all those criminals. Don’t make a federal case out of local thugs being thugs.
Why should he acknowledge rioting criminals that the local and state government could take care of, if they had the will to do so?
No, he just doesn't give a sh!t when useless people with too much time on their hands conduct demonstrations over bullsh!t that isn't important on a national scale.
Well, for one thing, no matter what President Trump says; the left will turn it into something ugly and lie about it so why should he? It’s an internal matter at St. Louis.
Because the protesters rioters don't have a legitimate gripe. They just can't handle the truth.
Not his circus...
The Post’s equivalent to excrement:the content.
What does he need to ‘acknowledge’? That a man was acquitted and we are a nation of laws not mobs? Seems to me the protestors are the ones who need to acknowledge - the ruling of their peers.
feh...
Good. I got tired of Obama commenting on every single thing that happened in the world. Nothing wrong with Trump staying quiet on this.
Just how should he honor a bunch of rioters and looters with a tweet?
Stop killing us! How many black folk’s lives did the heroin dealer destroy?
Don Lemon’s lover?
Yes! These are not protests. They are planned riots. It’s time for the cops to start shooting anyone who hurls a brick at them. Some parts of the country are becoming ungovernable.
The WaaaaaaaPo and others hoping Trump will comments so they can spin and lie to try to hurt him. Must suck to be them and be so stupid against a smart target....
Exactly. Don’t these idiots realize that with this guy gone, incarcerated or otherwise, that their community is better for it? It isn’t the rich white paid for protesters that suffer the consequences of a terrible person like this guy but the people in his community.
If they want to discuss the root causes of why this guy was such a bad apple, then great. But it will require some serious introspection.
Too true...
And of course there’s the obvious: “We prefer to kill ourselves in fare larger numbers than the police every have.”
Now, back to trashing the police brothas...
Yeah, yeah. This is the same as Charlotte: “Trump is evil because he doesn’t say exactly what we demand.” This doesn’t even rise to the level of Fake Journalism, it’s utterly brainless agitprop.
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