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There have been protests in St. Louis for four days, but Trump hasn’t acknowledged them
Washington Post ^ | September 18, 2017 | By Eugene Scott

Posted on 09/18/2017 2:47:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

This is the fourth day of protests in St. Louis after the acquittal of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, who had been charged with murder in the shooting of a black driver, and President Trump still hasn't said anything.

He found time Sunday to retweet a GIF of himself hitting his 2016 presidential rival in the back with a golf ball, a projection of his estimated value to Twitter (approximately $2 billion) and a cartoon showing him literally bringing jobs back to the United States from overseas.

But he has yet to comment — on Twitter or otherwise — on an incident that is a microcosm of one of the major conversations during the presidential campaign: the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color.

There must be a way for Trump to address the strife in a state he won while continuing to respect his base. For a president who has record low favorability ratings, particularly among black voters, Trump's silence seems to confirm one of their biggest fears about his administration: that Trump does not care about the challenges affecting black Americans.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: bias; fakenews; journalism; riots; soros; stlouis; stlouisprotests; trumpstlouis
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s a local issue, POTUS has bigger fish to fry. Antifa/BLM/Soros/CPUSA all want a national stage.

We should take a note from Napolean to deny the enemy what he wants, because he wants it.


21 posted on 09/18/2017 2:57:17 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Destroying the vestiges of the First Civil War is ensuring the Second.)
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To: WeWaWes
Reparations? I've got their forty acres and a mule right here.


22 posted on 09/18/2017 2:58:17 PM PDT by katana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why should he promote looting and stealing.
And property destruction.


23 posted on 09/18/2017 2:58:27 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: dhs12345
That they per was a drug dealer with a rap sheet?

... Who led them on a high-speed chase (87 MPH) weaving into oncoming traffic endangering the General Public.

That animal didn't care about other people's lives, why should anyone care about his?

24 posted on 09/18/2017 3:00:59 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The activists don’t deserve the attention they would draw if Trump reacted. I’m glad he’s ignoring this.


25 posted on 09/18/2017 3:02:31 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

St. Louis Throw RIOT

NO ONE CARES


26 posted on 09/18/2017 3:02:49 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WaPoo seems to believe that they’re living in some sort of reality tv show where the host has to bless their obsession du jour in order to validate it and make it “real.” I suspect the media coverage is what the agitators and instigators of this actually want, so why give it to them? Giving them notoriety will only encourage more.


27 posted on 09/18/2017 3:02:59 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“But he has yet to comment — on Twitter or otherwise — on an incident that is a microcosm of one of the major conversations during the presidential campaign: the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color.”

Translation:

Trump has yet to fall into the trap of embroiling himself in the Marxist narrative that he is a racist supporter of racist cops.


28 posted on 09/18/2017 3:04:04 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: dhs12345
No, no! He was a black driver...not an ex con heroin dealer, illegally armed with a stolen gun that tried to run over a police officer while fleeing a justified stop.

Just like michael brown was an unarmed, black teenager and not an adult that had just committed a robbery with violence, resisted a legitimate arrest with violence and attempted to take the officer's gun.

29 posted on 09/18/2017 3:06:42 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ten dead in Chicago on average every week including this weekend. Why doesn’t the media/BLM acknowledge the inner city holocaust of black on black violence?


30 posted on 09/18/2017 3:06:53 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, why should he?

It’s not as if rioting by half civilized, brain dead blacks and air headed, self loathing whites is an unusual event.


31 posted on 09/18/2017 3:08:15 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (World's Most Powerful Nation Falls To Invasion Of Mexican Peasants!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The judges decision, 30 pages double spaced, can be found as a pdf file on the St. Louis Post Dispatch's website. It is a light read. On reading, I found the reporting done on the incident slanted, biased, with sins of omission. Acquittal was the right decision, so why should Trump whine and wring his hands over it like an Obama?

If anyone is uncertain as to what happened, read the decision. Here it is:

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/7b/57b2d12c-83d8-53a0-ba1f-18b659a7e569/59bbe0a450230.pdf.pdf

C.W.

32 posted on 09/18/2017 3:08:37 PM PDT by colderwater
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The "author" - as predictable as the sun rising tomorrow.


33 posted on 09/18/2017 3:09:06 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, he didn’t actually re-tweet that picture, so there’s that for fake journalism.

And does this guy want Trump to go on twitter and say “why are these minorities causing so much violence”? Probably not.

Does he want Trump to say the criminal justice system should be abolished because it frees innocent people even when the mob wants them to be punished? I doubt we would like that.


34 posted on 09/18/2017 3:13:03 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And if he did, he’d be called a racist.

The WP is full of something. Not sure what it is, but it sure isn’t pancakes.


36 posted on 09/18/2017 3:18:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (DACA: Their dream, our nightmare... will the rule of law prevail or not?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He went to trial and won. Get over it losers.


37 posted on 09/18/2017 3:20:08 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: aquila48

The “author” as predictable as the last time he had weird “eyes” implanted.


38 posted on 09/18/2017 3:21:47 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Terry L Smith

Has Obama acknowledged that ten people were shot dead over the weekend in Chicago?


39 posted on 09/18/2017 3:27:44 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

and he should not give them any notice, ditto-Hilary.
they don’t deserve his attention - or ours!!


40 posted on 09/18/2017 3:30:41 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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