“I have been unequivocal in condemning any rhetoric directed at police officers, so I think you’d have to find any message that did not include a very strong support for law enforcement in all my utterances dating back to Ferguson”, Obama replied, referring to the Missouri city where an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer in 2014.
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I understand the feeling.
Mr Obama fielded questions on racial justice and policing as he worked to model the kind of conversation he has argued must take place throughout the United States to defuse tensions. There was something about last week, though. Cameron Sterling the son of Alton Sterling was present at the event.
According to a schedule of Jewish events during the Democratic convention, Dermer will discuss the U.S. -Israel relationship at an event hosted by former Congressman Robert Wexler, president of the Washington-based S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace, on Thursday, the same day Hillary Clinton is expected to deliver her acceptance speech as the Democratic Party’s first female presidential nominee.
“What did you think it would do to families who are already living with daily trauma to call on those people?”. Yet for some people they are.
“We took an extra 30 minutes to get to as many people as we could during the town hall”, said ABC spokeswoman Julie Townsend. Reynolds, who livestreamed what followed his shooting on Facebook, said she was scared for her daughter’s future and asked the president remotely, “What do we do?”
ABC said it tried to accommodate as many questions as it could. What are the parents of black and brown children supposed to do in a world in which they might send their children to the corner store-perhaps for some iced tea and Skittles, as Trayvon Martin purchased four and a half years ago-knowing they might not come home? The mass shooting in Dallas was the worst mass police shooting since 9/11.
Obama told a lot of people he was proud of them for speaking up, and said they should be proud of the loved ones in their lives who were serving the public or asking for change through their activism.
The lieutenant governor jumped in to say, “I know you have”. “We know what a tough job they have”, he said.
“The heart of the police dilemma is those neighborhoods that demand our services, need us the most, request us the most, depend upon us us the most for social or historical reasons, distrust us”, Flynn said. He said prominent incidents sometimes “the catalyst for all the other stuff that may not even have to do with policing coming out”. “That’s why it’s so important for us to do everything we can to create healthy communities”.
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And for these societal criticisms-for acknowledging the times racism has affected him personally, for having the temerity to suggest that police departments are, perhaps, not entirely flawless, and that they need to better investigate incidents of police violence in clear and transparent ways-President Obama is accused of not being on the side of the police. The dialogue got a little too honest for the president’s taste when Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick called the president out for his tendency, in Patrick’s view, of being too quick to blame the police when shootings of African Americans occur.
