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Holder: Ferguson shooting presents country with ‘moment of decision’
The Washington Post's Post Politics ^
| September 23, 2014
| Wesley Lowery
Posted on 09/23/2014 3:58:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Tuesday that the shooting of the unarmed black teenager by a police officer in suburban St. Louis and the tense protests, riots and national discussion that it sparked has left the country at a "moment of decision" about how police interact with racial minorities.
"These tensions simmer every day in far too many communities across the country," Holder said. "The situation in Ferguson has presented leaders across the nation
with a moment of decision, a moment of decision, a series of important questions that can no longer be avoided."
The remarks came during a speech delivered Tuesday afternoon at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice -- in which the attorney general touted new numbers showing a year-over-year decline in the number of federal prisoners for the first time in decades.
Holder, who has frequently played the role of the most outspoken member of the Obama administration when it comes to matters of race issues in America....
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; ericholder; ferguson; lawenforcement; missouri
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/23/2014 3:59:33 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: Jim Robinson
He loves guns when he’s holding up a recuitment center.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Could these jackwagons do anything more to prejudge this case and thoroughly contaminate any jury pool?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Holder protects the thug lifestyle because he is one himself
To: Jim Robinson
I simply fail to see the importance he wants to attach to this.
I wonder what % of the population he thinks he speaks for?
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:04:18 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Huh? What you talking about white man?
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:04:31 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yep, I made a decision to buy more ammo.
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:06:04 PM PDT
by
suijuris
To: Blue Jays
That nitwit Eric Holder is still yammering about this incident?
Heaven forbid a community calm itself and return to normal.
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:06:30 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What decision, what important question is that?
That thugs, armed robbers and assaulters are not to be held to account by the law if they happen to be black? How’s that for even-handed race relations?
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:06:52 PM PDT
by
John Valentine
(Deep in the Heart of Texas)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah, he’s right. We’ve decided we’re sick and tired of the ginned up race baiting taking place in the Dept of Just Us Brothers.
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:08:26 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: Jim Robinson
My neighbors, who are from Ukraine, use that “horse’s ass” to describe Vladimir Putin, too.
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:09:41 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:14:13 PM PDT
by
rktman
("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"The situation in Ferguson has presented leaders across the nation
with a moment of decision, a moment of decision, a series of important questions that can no longer be avoided."
I agree. The first question we absolutely cannot avoid is: "How much longer will we, the taxpayers, tolerate feral minority yutes running wild in the streets, committing their vile depredations on individuals and society at large?"
The second question, Mr. (Weiner) Holder, is as follows: "What the hell are you going to do about these feral minority yutes?"
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:17:42 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: Milton Miteybad
"What the hell are you going to do about these feral minority yutes?"You mean beyond making sure they have both EBT and voter registration cards?
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:19:35 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
IMPEACH HOLDER for starters.
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:20:21 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Holder presents the country with moments of derision.
What a dork.
A dork who should still be in jail.
To: John Valentine
That’s the message. Negro people will be held to a lesser standard. In any confrontation between people of the Negro and Caucasian backgrounds, the Caucasian will have the burden of proof to show that whatever force used against a Negro person was justified and proportionate to whatever threat existed.
Burden of proof will be on the Caucasian person to show that there was a threat in the first place, as the presumption will be that the Negro person was simply going about his business and was accosted and threatened first by the Caucasian person.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
from the withholder quote ... you cannot make this stuff up ...
"These tensions simmer every day in far too many communities across the country," Holder said. These tension simmer ... to riot, loot or steal ... withholder said of his people ... (interpretation).
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:26:10 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: Milton Miteybad
How much longer till we as citizens do something?
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/bracken-when-the-music-stops-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence/
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posted on
09/23/2014 4:36:26 PM PDT
by
45semi
(A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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