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As National Guard troops responded to rioting in Baltimore, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that there have been too many troubling police interactions with black citizens across America in what he called “a slow-rolling crisis.” But he said there was no excuse for rioters to engage in senseless violence.
Obama said people in Baltimore who stole from businesses and burned buildings and cars should be treated as criminals. “They aren’t protesting, they aren’t making a statement, they’re stealing,” Obama said.
Obama spoke at a White House press conference with the Japanese prime minister the day after violence broke out 40 miles north after the funeral for Freddie Gray, a black man who died in Baltimore police custody under mysterious circumstances.
Obama said the case should prompt some “soul searching” in America about communities where young men are more likely to end up in jail or dead than completing school. He said police should not be expected to do the “dirty work” and solutions should involve early education, criminal justice reform and job training. He said American can’t just “pay attention to these communities when a CVS burns.”
“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. It comes up, it seems like, once a week now,” Obama said. He said it’s not new, but there’s new awareness as a result of cameras and social media.
(AP)
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He’s scared he’s next..
Handful of people?
The incompetence of this guy is of history making proportion. He is essentially excusing the rioting as warranted. His statement about “stealing” is also minimizing. The actions of the rioters are acts of WAR. Yes, they are engaged in combat against the system. The approach to these combatants needs to be with nothing less than lethal force. We have all witnessed the masses of angry blacks being completely unable to exercise their First Amendment rights to protest peacefully. When they congregate, it’s all about chaos, mayhem, destruction, and frankly engaging in war against the government at all levels. There is no justification, and never will be. The soft rhetoric by Obama is essentially justifying this madness. The money needed to compensate for this stuff should not come from taxpayers, but from monies otherwise allocated to support black causes. They are entitled to not a dollar of programs intended for civilians, as they have demonstrated they absence of civility. Will we ever witness saichel and morality coming to Washington before the end of this evil administration?
Why are we complaining ? we put him in power didn’t we ? large amount of our “Chevrim” voted for him did we not ? as my Zeda would say “you put all that much on your plate ? now finish it so next time you’ll be more knowing in what you chose “
How about putting the blame for silent collapsing of society.. where it belongs?
Blacks are more sensitive than whites in absorbing from osmosis the atmosphere pervading in the air [though they’re completely unable to articulate it]
And being on a lower socioracial level, they have less defenses to somewhat insulate themselves from the deteriorating of society
Therefore ,rather than blaming blacks for acting out and thereby conveniently using them as strawmen..
It’s amazing how the world continues to tolorate the stupid statements this dumb**** president keeps spewing out there. I guess we’re lucky he himself isn’t joining his brothers & making their “statement”
This incompetent lunatic is simply amazing! More education is what’s needed! Because in his words (directly implied), America doesn’t remember these “communities” unless a CVS is burning. Is he utterly retarded? As for his statement regarding too much “interaction” of cops and blacks; gee. I’d venture to say that’s another way of saying blacks are involved in too much crime! Finally something truthful from the sullied mouth of our “commander in chief”.
What we are really seeing is a rebellion against a pervasively corrupt criminal justice system, that has not only become destructive of its ends but murderous as well.