Posted on 04/28/2015 1:09:22 PM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — President Obama responded with passion and frustration on Tuesday to the violence that has rocked Baltimore and other cities after the deaths of young black men in the hands of the police, saying it was part of a “slow-rolling crisis” that demanded a period of national soul-searching to resolve.
Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, Mr. Obama called for “full transparency and accountability” in a Department of Justice investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, the young black man who died of a spinal cord injury sustained while in police custody. But he also said his thoughts were with the police officers injured in Monday night’s unrest in Baltimore, which he said “underscores that that’s a tough job, and we have to keep that in mind.”
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Mr. Obama showed flashes of anger during what was apparently a carefully thought-out response to the events in Baltimore. As he has before, the president bristled at what he argued was the news media’s habit of focusing on dramatic images of brutality and chaos rather than on what have been mostly peaceful protests in Baltimore and other cities.
“One burning building will be looped on television over and over and over again, and thousands of demonstrators who did it the right way, I think, have been lost in the discussion,” Mr. Obama said. “The overwhelming majority of the community in Baltimore, I think, have handled this appropriately, expressing real concern and outrage over the possibility that our laws were not applied evenly in the case of Mr. Gray and that accountability needs to exist.”
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CNN giving the impromptu musicians/protesters a plug as they wait for presser..
Pres. of National Urban League mouthing hollow words.. forgets their own complicity in years of abuse of the inner cities for political purposes..
Hollow words..
We must take steps to fix these inequities...
Try not voting for DemocRats.. Dude!!
Mayors presser,, Today we saw more of what Baltimore is about.. lolol
cleaning up the community,, comforting people whose lives will likely be disrupted forever..
What a witch.
Yeah, if it wasn’t for whitey we’d be rioting all the time. Therefor it’s whiteys fault ...
LOLOLOLOLOL.
Actually, SAD, not funny.
Who woulda thunk it? The media’s mantra is “if it bleeds it leads.”
0bama rails against the wind. Again.
NO one asked the Mayor any questions.
wow.
The police chief was in Oakland not so long ago and did such a bangup job there too.. Suckers1
Media are all slugs!
Not one question to Her Highness!
Thug has a dream...
Typically twice as many white men as black men die at the hands of the police in a given year. Why don’t whites riot every time a white person is killed by the cops? Because they are too complacent enjoying their white privilege?
President Buckwheat is oblivious to the fact that 99.99% of federal employees will refuse to die on a hilltop for the glory of Obuma. All he has left is dumb kids throwing rocks. His fall will be monumental and heard in every nock and cranny across America.
this bastards REALLY GETTING ON MY NERVES!!
ahahaha THANK YOU!!!
every cat and dog I KNOW...... is smarter and more MORAL...than this vile Unctuous Bumplin!!
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