Rams showed us that on sunday. The rams players, Trayvon Austin and kenny brit showed up with their hands up. Whats wrong with this . Because they wear a jock strap for a living and play football, they cant have an opinion on whats going on in their community . The owner and coaches of the team didnt know they were going to do this. Hands up to support ferguson demonstrator around the country. Good for them. Keep it right where it needs to be, in the focus of the American People. The rest of the receiving corps, they joined in and went on the field with them with hands up. The Police Officer association released a statement in disgust. They said theyre profoundly disappointed with members of the st. Louis Rams Football Team who chose to ignore the mountains of evidence released from the st. Louis county grand jury this week and engaged in a display that Police Officers around the nation found tasteless, offensive and inflammatory. I guess theyre speaking for everybody now and the count
August 9th. Ferguson lay barren, a problem that is not unique to st. Louis or that area and is not unique to our times. And that is a simmering distrust that exists between too Many Police Departments and too many communities of color. The sense that the most important principle is a quality under the law that too many individuals particularly young people of color, do not feel theyre being treated fairly. The president has helped to pay for 75 million to go for lapelmounted body cameras. The federal government wore overhaul programs to dispense to local Police Departments, programs that led to images like this out of ferguson. The president stopped short calling for those programs be ended, as many critics have called for. Also, today, the 16 person ferguson commission, selected by missouri governor jay nixon met for the first time to address the social and economic factors that contributed to the out pouring following browns killing with input from the community. Who polices the poli
Training on how to make dangerous arrests without people getting killed. About minority recruitment so the communities, especially tough neighborhood have police protecting them with people who came from where they came from and know how it is. What i liked about the president , he comes at this division in our country, not denying that it exists, but making clear it does. And that he knows it does. He talked about racial differences being not unique to our time. That weve been dealing with them for centuries. But the current reality that as he put it, too many individuals, particularly young people of color, do not feel as if theyre being treated fairly by police. But he also quoted attorney general eric holder, that quote, Police Officers have a right to come home after working a tough neighborhood and not end up dead. I trust this man whos our president and im sticking to that trust. In a society in which theres too much hate, he uses his superior intellect to see through the passio
About pardoning a turkey. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. This afternoon, president obama met with civil rights leaders, Law Enforcement and other officials to discuss how to repair the relationship between police and communities of color. Following the announcement by Bob Mccullouch that a grand jury would not indiet Police Officer Darren Ferguson in the killing of a teenager Michael Brown august 9th. Ferguson lay barren, a problem that is not unique to st. Louis or that area and is not unique to our times. And that is a simmering distrust that exists between too Many Police Departments and too many communities of color. The sense that the most important principle is a quality under the law that too many individua individuals particularly young people of color, do not feel theyre being treated fairly. The president has helped to pay for 75 million to go for lapelmounted body cameras. The federal government wore overhaul programs to dispense to local Police Departm
Schedule. Remember that esquire article, and we made recommendations for a wellrun senate, which included fiveday weeks. Someone read it. Someone actually read it. And theyre going to do six in a row. Im telling you, its a great recommendation, but theyre going to drop like flies. Well, president obama brought the discussion of ferguson to the white house today. When any part of the American Family does not feel like it is being treated fairly, thats a problem for all of us. Ferguson is on the president s mind. To enhance understanding and cooperation between Law Enforcement officials and local communities. Theres got to be a way we can do better. Is meeting together for the First Time Since the grand jury decision. We dont want it to become another bureaucracy, taking the information and doing nothing. Im here forever screaming, crying, praying. Im a citizen of ferguson, im depending on you. Darren wilson resigned from the Ferguson Police department. In washington, d. C. , demonstrato