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After inflaming racial tensions by condemning police
treatment of Blacks in Ferguson and Baltimore on television and in the media,
suddenly Obama uses Facebook
Here was the lead news story today, from Chicago,
the number one city in America
in murders in 2014 and for several years.
Journalist Brandon Smith, left, and activist William Calloway talk to reporters Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, after a Cook County judge ordered the Chicago Police Department to release a video of an officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on Nov. 25, in Chicago. The video is said to show the officer shooting McDonald 16 times in October 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
ABC News
By don babwin and jason keyser, associated press
CHICAGO
— Nov 25, 2015, 1:54 AM ET
Officer Charged With Murder in Teen's Death
A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16
times last year was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, hours before the
city released a video of the killing that many people fear could spark unrest.
City officials and community leaders have been bracing for
the release of the dash-cam video, fearing the kind of turmoil that occurred in
cities such as Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri,
after young black men were slain by police or died in police custody.
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Obama goes from press conferences and television interviews
to condemn police actions to just posting in his new Facebook account saying he
is "deeply disturbed" by what happened! Now wait a minute, this time there is no
doubt the event was unjustified, an abuse of power, and an excessive use of a
firearm and Obama is only "deeply disturbed."
Perhaps the media is protecting him from the real
story. Chicago, of course, is Obama's home. The Mayor of Chicago is Obama's former Chief
of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Not only was Rahm
his right hand man, he was also the top fund raiser for the Obama campaigns because
of his relationship as an executive in Goldman Sachs before he went to work for
Obama.
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| Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and Warren Buffett |
The year-long lack of action by the prosecutor in Chicago and the brutal
and senseless killing by firing sixteen shots into the victim, who was high on
PCP at the time, were about as conclusive of evidence as possible.
A video from a camera mounted on a Police car was suppressed
by the Chicago authorities, and only came to light when a judge order the
release, which happened today, a year later.
It showed sixteen shots in fifteen seconds.
The City of Chicago
seemed to try to minimize the impact of any evidence and keep the whole case
out of the media while Rahm Emanuel ran and got re-elected as Mayor during the
past year by paying $5 million in hush money, before any charges were even
filed.
Maybe it is about time a federal investigation of the role
Emanuel had in withholding the video and paying off the family should be
investigate. You might add to that
investigate why Obama nearly ignored commenting on this racial incident after
being all over the news on all previous incidents.
It seems awfully like a cover-up in Obama's hometown. Emanuel won a run off for mayor just last
April after none of the five candidates were able to get 50% of the vote. Strange how the liberal media is selectively
silent when it comes to our president.
Here is what he had to say about police actions before the
incident happened in his hometown.
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President Obama's Facebook post says
he's "deeply disturbed" by video showing teen shot by Chicago police officer. November 25, 2015
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The Washington
Times
Obama says Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson ‘stains the heart of black children’
By
Dave
Boyer - The
Washington
Times - Sunday, September 28, 2014
President Obama said the shooting death of a black teen by a
white police officer last month in
Ferguson,
Missouri, exposed the racial divide in the American
justice system that “stains the heart of black children.”
Speaking at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
dinner in Washington on Saturday night, Mr. Obama said the death of
Michael Brown
“awakened our nation” to a reality that black citizens already understood.
“In too many communities around the country, a gulf of
mistrust exists between local residents and law enforcement,” Mr. Obama said.
“Too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement — guilty of
walking while black or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel
fear and resentment and hopelessness.”
Mediaite
Obama on Baltimore:
‘No Dispute’ Men of Color Disproportionately Targeted by Police
And that sense of unfairness and of powerlessness, of people
not hearing their voices, that’s helped fuel some of the protests we’ve seen in
places like Baltimore and Ferguson
and right here in New York.
The catalyst of those protests were the tragic deaths of young men and a
feeling that law is not always applied evenly in this country. In too many
places in this country, black boys and black men, Latino boys, Latino men —
they experience being treated differently by law enforcement. In stops and in
arrests and in charges and in incarcerations. The statistics are clear up and
down the criminal justice system. There’s no dispute.
CNN
Obama: 'No excuse' for violence in Baltimore
Updated 5:08 PM ET, Tue April 28, 2015
The growing violence in Baltimore, just 40 miles from the White
House, represents another challenge for the Obama administration in addressing
racial unrest across the country. Since the police killing of an unarmed
teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer, the administration
has worked to acknowledge deep frustrations in minority communities while also
supporting law enforcement.
Obama said he spoke with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday. Attorney General
Loretta Lynch, who was sworn in Monday, said the Justice Department is investigating
Gray's death.
Just hours after she was sworn in, Lynch was at the White
House on Monday evening meeting with Obama to discuss the violent protests
unfolding in Baltimore.
She said she will send Vanita Gupta, the head of the Justice Department's Civil
Rights Division, and Ronald Davis, director of Community Oriented Policing
Services, to Baltimore "in the coming days" to meet with religious
and community leaders.
Federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms arson investigators
are aiding local authorities in investigating 60 fires — 10 structure fires
like a CVS and a nursing home construction site, the others vehicles — in
Baltimore on Monday night.
The White House sent three representatives to Baltimore on
Monday for Gray's funeral: Broderick Johnson, a native of the city and the
chairman of the My Brother's Keeper Task Force; Heather Foster, an adviser in
the White House Office of Public Engagement; and Elias Alcantara, the associate
director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
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