Posted on 08/18/2014 6:10:41 AM PDT by reaganaut1
EDGARTOWN, Mass. — Senior White House aides have made repeated, urgent phone calls to Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri, to state police officials and to civil rights leaders in recent days as President Obama’s administration becomes more deeply involved in trying to maintain peace in Ferguson and to ensure an independent investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager by a white police officer.
White House officials also said Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who is the administration’s most outspoken voice on racial issues, had been in frequent touch with the governor and State Highway Patrol in Missouri as angry protests continued to simmer there. Mr. Holder is scheduled to provide a formal briefing to the president in Washington on Monday, officials said. Both men were returning Sunday from Martha’s Vineyard, where they had been vacationing for the past week.
Mr. Holder announced Sunday that a federal medical examiner would conduct an independent autopsy of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was shot Aug. 9 in Ferguson by Officer Darren Wilson. Officials said the decision was the result of “extraordinary circumstances” in the case, and was part of a civil rights investigation the F.B.I. is conducting.
The order for an additional autopsy may also help the Obama administration to reassure Mr. Brown’s family and others who are suspicious of the state’s investigation and are eager for an independent inquiry, something that Mr. Holder promised the family personally.
Brian Fallon, a Justice Department spokesman, said the department would also consider the results of the first, state-conducted autopsy. There was no indication that federal investigators saw any problems with the local examination. The family has also had a private autopsy conducted.
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Give in to the racists, so that there is no opposition.
Under what authority does the WH have the ability to order anything here?
Can’t these idiots NOT avoid mucking (rhymes with) stuff up?
Does this mean Obama is going to don a mask and help perform the 12th autopsy? I mean, he has to IDENTIFY with the RAGE, doesn't he?
Indded!
““In my capacity as the forensic examiner for the New York State Police, I would say, ‘You’re not supposed to shoot so many times,’ ” said Dr. Baden, who retired from the state police in 2011. “Right now there is too little information to forensically reconstruct the shooting.””
If there is ‘too little information’ HTH can he say there were too many shots!
A prog’s natural impulse is to be a ghoul. Maybe they’ll put a couple of rounds in the corpse’s back, just so they can keep the narrative going.....
Indeed! *sigh* the caffeine isn’t working...
Is he sending the Black Panthers to do it?
“By the time they get done with this perp’s body, it will look like mince meat laying there.”
And from that come more cash for Democrat politicians. It is always about confusing the real narrative to be able to manufacture their own.
Always.
“Translation: The cop should have just shot him one time in the head like they do in the movies”.
No, I think the cop should have shot him several times as they would have done on a typical Friday night in Chicago...by his fellow African Americans.
bee ess
Obama Administration Plans Autopsy of Michael Brown in Effort to Keep pouring Salt int the wounds.....................................
NOTHING, no matter how foul, no matter how manifestly unfair, not matter how obviously in conflict with statute, case law or the Constitution, NOTHING this administration does is illegal. Nothing.
Indded, don’t mend it.................
Photo op
I guess King Obongobongo is worried about the upcoming election.
The message......only the Federal Government/democrats can be trusted to protect you from whitey. Be sure and vote multiple times in November.
By what authority does the federal government insert itself in to an issue that is clearly a local/state matter?
I wonder how many time he’ll be shot in the back before the autopsy begins...
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