Obama requests $263 million for federal response to Ferguson

Reuters ^ | 12/1/14 | Steve Holland

[TangledUpInBlue]

U.S. President Barack Obama asked Congress on Monday for $263 million for the federal response to the civil rights upheaval in Ferguson, Missouri, and is setting up a task force to study how to improve modern-day policing.

The funds would pay for body cameras for police officers to use and expand training for law enforcement in an attempt to build trust in communities such as Ferguson, where a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the August shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, the White House said.

Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey and Laurie Robinson, a George Mason University professor who is a former assistant attorney general, will lead the task force on 21st century policing, officials said.

[TangledUpInBlue]

A task force to study modern day policing?? I guess he didn't invite Rudy to the White House huh?

[Da Coyote]

Pay for it yourself, Obamahole.

You and your b*ttlicking MSM created this situation.

[mylife]

It’s a town of 20,000!!!

[Organic Panic]

Ferguson race pimps and community agitation organizations get 263,000,000 taxpayer dollars for a successful shakedown.

By the way. April 15th is tax day. Now get back to work peasants.

[Kackikat]

Sharpton and the race baiters want more to stir the pot.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Really, the news media that made all the arson into a nationwide spectacle have some answering to do here. Why won’t they chip in?

[Mr. K]

That’s ONLY a cost of $13,000 per man/woman/child in the town!

That there’s some GOOOooood governmenting!

[DoodleDawg]

A waste of money from a government that already wastes too much money.

[Cowboy Bob]

If I were Congress, I wouldn't even bother rejecting Obama’s proposal...I would just ignore it all together.

[Beagle8U]

O’bastard can go —— himself with a rusty fence post!

[novemberslady]

no

[C210N]

That’s $13,000 for every man, woman and child... probably includes the Ferguson unborn as well.

[Iscool]

I don’t know that anyone invited Obama to the party...He and Eric can foot their own bill...

[AppyPappy]

Maybe they could use some of that money to pay Al Sharpton’s tax debt.

[stephenjohnbanker]

NO money!

[novemberslady]

And while you’re at it park the people’s planes and give back the keys.

[mylife]

Fact is the money will be spent to militarize another police force.

[navyguy]

Naturally, none of this money will be use to train black youth to NOT assault police officers. That would be racist.

[Mr. K]

Whose a$$ did they pull that dollar amount out of?

[so_real]

Oh for pity's sake. King Idiot and his Court of Loons are wanting to redistribute our tax dollars some more.