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Obama administration called thousands of civil rights, black leaders on Ferguson crisisby Chuck Raasch at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/obama-administration-called-thousands-of-civil-rights-black-leaders-on/article_770d34f3-d178-5b89-8a69-2076574ee169.html
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WASHINGTON White House and Justice Department officials on Monday held two conference calls on the crisis in Ferguson with a total of 1,050 African-American and civil rights leaders around the country.
The calls, made by Attorney General Eric Holder, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and the Justice Departments Acting Civil Rights Division Chief Molly Moran, were held in part to enlist these participants to help keep the situation calm and focused, a White House official said Tuesday.
The revelation of the calls was part of a White House account provided to the Post-Dispatch of administration actions since the Aug. 9 police shooting death of Michael Brown, 18, by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson. The White House account describes multiple, individual contacts between either Obama or high-ranking administration officials and Gov. Jay Nixon and Missouris two senators.
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Cha
(297,655 posts)they can better serve Justice for Michael Brown .
mahalo apple~
brer cat
(24,605 posts)as he is doing is for the best.
Thanks for the thread, applegrove.
onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)At least someone is thinking about the people.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)This President and his team are focused. They are doing it right.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)his ability to consistently make the quiet, but SMART play. I think that comes from his belief/realization that nothing about his job is about him ... except his faithful execution of his duties as President and as a man.
elleng
(131,107 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)And I think it is why he will be looked at by history very favorably.
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)Thanks for the thread, applegrove.
Number23
(24,544 posts)The next day, Aug. 11, Holder announced the DOJ would conduct a fulsome review and a concurrent, federal investigation of the shooting.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)So, yeah, I'll take the hit. I think this approach, for now, is best.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)That could not possibly happened on DU...oh wait it did! I am shocked, shocked I say~ Not.
Ha! To the crowd that thinks this President is a POS and those that believe that he does not care about the people in Ferguson. They can stuff it.
Try looking at the facts and not your fricking unbelievable unrelenting outrage of this black President.
HFS!
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)But where were he and Holder during and after OWS?
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
zentrum
(9,865 posts).....ground game for voter registration and voter turn out in Missouri.
Need to get different, more diverse, more progressive people into office at all levels. Must return to the old Democratic party program of voter organizing.
Dean tried but the party cut him off after 2008.
They they wondered what happened in the midterms.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)2nd terms are always difficult.
whats going on now,
reminds me of ( two years ago? IIRC)
President Obama's effort on gun control
bigtree
(86,005 posts). . . NOT the PEOPLE!!
Just in the last hour! DON'T MISS THIS POST!
Very quiet and peaceful tonight in Ferguson - then, one PLASTIC bottle thrown and its police state!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025415909
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Because the white officers, that have a racially suspect history, are acting out?
President Obama is doing exactly what he should be doing.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)Original source: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/51598475/highlight/541859
You have an out of control police force there threatening to kill media while Capt moRON Johnson walks down the street like a king watching it all.
but hey maybe Obama did call and say "Ronnie you're doing a heck of a job"
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Another Ferguson cop telling media trying to ask Capt Johnson a question to: "Get over on that shoulder and get your asses moving". Johnson does nothing.
Video: http://bit.ly/1rWxMlW
Snapshot:
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I just heard a snippet on NPR, how President Obama hasn't reached out to Black "leaders".
Rex
(65,616 posts)Or so I've been told.
Lars39
(26,116 posts)He's helping the organizers organize.