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Sharpton a key advisor to Obama on Ferguson (reported back directly to Valerie Jarrett)
NY Post ^ | August 22, 2014 | Pat Bailey

Posted on 08/22/2014 8:17:59 AM PDT by maggief

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To: ThomasMore
Just imagine how this all would play out, if:

1. The POTUS was African-American.

2. The Attny General was African-American.

3. The deceased was white.

4. The accused cop was either white or African American.

Crickets.......

21 posted on 08/22/2014 8:50:21 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (IMPEACH THE TRAITOR --- IMPEACH THE TRAITOR --- IMPEACH THE TRAITOR)
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To: MinuteGal
Tom DeLay used to be an exterminator by trade. He should be called in to decontaminate the entire building before the next president is seated in the Oval Office.

And maybe we should get the Pope to send in a boatload of exorcists.

Because we will need every single one of them.

22 posted on 08/22/2014 8:51:40 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: maggief; NautiNurse

DC looking at a hurricane soon?

23 posted on 08/22/2014 8:52:23 AM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: MinuteGal

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/08/al-sharpton-white-house-ferguson-liaison-194359.html

And the White House, as the crisis following Brown’s death seemed to flare out of control, worked extensively behind the scenes to maximize The Rev’s doing what he does, using him as both a source of information and a go-between. After huddling with Brown’s family and local community leaders, Sharpton connected directly with White House adviser and First Friend Valerie Jarrett, vacationing in her condo in the exclusive Oak Bluffs section of Martha’s Vineyard, not far from where President Obama and his family were staying. Obama was “horrified” by the images he was seeing on TV, Jarrett told Sharpton, and proceeded to pepper him with questions as she collected information for the president: How bad was the violence? Was it being fueled by outside groups—and could Sharpton do anything to talk them down? What did the Brown family want the White House to do?

It was a heady consultation for Sharpton, who spent years on the outside dreaming of a place in the pantheon of the civil rights leaders he revered as a teenage street preacher in Brooklyn, and it’s an irony lost on no one that his rise to White House adviser has come thanks to Barack Obama, whose restrained personal style couldn’t be any more different from Sharpton’s. If anything, the Ferguson crisis has underscored Sharpton’s role as the national black leader Obama leans on most, a remarkable personal and political transformation for a man once regarded with suspicion and disdain by many in his own party. It’s a status made all the more surprising given that Obama, America’s first black president, ran on a platform of moving beyond the country’s painful racial divisions while Sharpton is the man who once defined those divisions for many Americans.


24 posted on 08/22/2014 8:57:17 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Girlene

Yup. And not even against the person they accuse of being guilty. They never went after Zimmerman, but didn’t the community association in Zimmerman’s neighborhood settle?

So they won’t go after the cop, but the City of Ferguson itself. And the folks stuck with the bill will be the taxpayers. Who are mostly Black.

Nice.


25 posted on 08/22/2014 9:00:54 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-04-05/news/os-trayvon-martin-settlement-20130405_1_trayvon-martin-benjamin-crump-george-zimmerman

SANFORD — Trayvon Martin’s parents have settled a wrongful-death claim for an amount thought to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed.


26 posted on 08/22/2014 9:09:23 AM PDT by maggief
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To: driftless2
Send in the race hustlers to whip up the hate for whitey when all of your policies cause misery in the black community. Obama has screwed the black man more then any white president ever could. He needed a distraction when black people caught him pandering to illegal immigrants. The race pimps were more then willing to help the liberals stick it up the black community's ass.
27 posted on 08/22/2014 9:15:20 AM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: maggief

It is what he did as as an FBI informant against a national icon, the Mafia. Rat.


28 posted on 08/22/2014 9:19:26 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: tanknetter

Who are mostly Black....And doubtfully pay taxes in the first place.


29 posted on 08/22/2014 9:21:38 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Safetgiver

Not necessarily. I don’t know about Ferguson, but local taxes tend to be property or (rarer) sales-based.

Even renters pay property taxes, just through their landlords. Yes, they may pay that rent from welfare, but my recollection is that welfare isn’t necessarily indexed to rent. At least not alone (COLAs include other factors) So raising taxes will still reduce the level of dicretionary (in this case welfare) income in the citizens’ pockets.


30 posted on 08/22/2014 9:34:18 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

Yes the Homeowner’s association where Trayvon Martin was killed settled for 1.7 million, I think, just before the case went to trial. Not sure how much the family received...I’d bet not much.

You are right. Crump and Parks will be suing the police, the city of Ferguson, whoever they can squeeze the money out of. ..... and yes, the taxpayers will pay.


31 posted on 08/22/2014 10:11:15 AM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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To: TexasCajun

The Myth of Trigger-Happy White Cops
By: John Perazzo
Monday, April 16, 2001

Moreover, the minds of protesters such as those in Cincinnati have, for many years, been fed a steady diet of rhetoric from “civil rights leaders” like Al Sharpton, who once stated that “the real mobsters” who prey upon the black community often “wear blue uniforms and carry nightsticks.”

Perhaps it is time that Americans were finally told the truth about the police, so they might avoid falling prey to the self-serving lies of the aforementioned, self-anointed guardians of “civil rights.”

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that in 1998, fully 62 percent of the 367 suspects killed by police officers nationwide were white, and 35 percent were black. In fact, police killings of white suspects have outnumbered those of black suspects in every single year since 1978.

Moreover, black officers are far likelier to shoot black suspects than are white officers. In 1998, for instance, the black-officer-kills-black-felon rate was 32 per 100,000 black officers – much higher than the white-officer-kills-black-felon rate of 14 per 100,000 white officers. While part of this disparity is due to the fact that black officers often tend to be assigned to black neighborhoods, clearly no case can be made from these numbers that white officers are in any way “trigger-happy” when confronting black suspects.

The intra-racial nature of most police shootings has existed for many years. Between 1976 and 1998, about 65 percent of homicides by police officers were against suspects of the same racial background. The rate at which white officers shoot black suspects has been declining steadily for two decades, while the rate at which they shoot white suspects has remained fairly constant over that same period. When a white officer kills a suspect today, that suspect is usually white (63 percent). When a black officer kills a suspect, that suspect is usually black (81 percent).

Overall, black officers are slightly likelier than white officers to kill a suspect in the line of duty. Indeed whites comprise 87 percent of all police nationwide, but account for only about 80 percent of homicides against criminal suspects, regardless of race. Meanwhile blacks, who constitute 11 percent of American police officers, are responsible for about 17 percent of homicides against criminal suspects.

Some readers may find this information shocking, particularly in light of the media’s and the civil rights establishment’s disproportionate focus on instances of white officers killing black suspects.

The rest of the history

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=22176


32 posted on 08/22/2014 1:16:03 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: Dqban22
In fact, police killings of white suspects have outnumbered those of black suspects in every single year since 1978.

Whitey be miss'n da opportunity fo free sh*t! ...burn their neighborhood businesses down!

33 posted on 08/22/2014 1:23:13 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: txhurl
Too early to predict. Spaghetti Models are all over the place.
34 posted on 08/22/2014 4:31:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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