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Hundreds of people had marched through Dallas peacefully earlier on Thursday, demanding justice for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, who were shot dead by police

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Before the gunshots: People rally in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday to protest the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

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Protests swept the nation on Thursday evening as thousands of people took to the streets to demand justice for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, who were shot dead by police. Pictured, protesters in New York

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People take part in a protest for the killing of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile during a march along Manhattan's streets in New York

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Demonstrations took place in New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington DC (pictured), as well as in Louisiana and Minnesota - where the two black men were killed

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Hundreds of activists, clergy members and residents marched through Philadelphia to show their anger at the recent shootings

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Roads were blocked by angry demonstrators in Chicago after the shootings, which were all too familiar to residents of the city

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Detained: Anger boiled over in Manhattan, where a group of women protesting the deaths were seen being arrested in Times Square

 

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Two more women are pictured being arrested near Times Square in New York City after tensions boiled over during protests

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Demonstators rally in the middle of Times Square after they march through the city and call for justice for Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile

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Hundreds of people gathered in Times Square and Union Square in New York on Thursday to protest against the shootings, with tensions bubbling over

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Emotional scenes: Marcia Bacchus stands quietly with her sign honoring Alton Sterling, killed by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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Rage continues: Protesters march to protest the shooting deaths of Philando Castile on Wednesday night in Falcon Heights, Minnesota

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Anger on the streets: President Obama appealed for calm as protests swept the nation on Thursday in the wake of the two shootings

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Protests also took place in Chicago, Philadelphia (pictured) and Atlanta, as well as in Baton Rouge, where protesters continued to block traffic

 

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Berton Boreaux holds a sign on the hood of a bus as a group of protesters demonstrate near a prayer vigil in memory of Alton Sterling, who was shot dead by police

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Also voicing her anger was Beyonce, who paused her show in Glasgow, Scotland, to display names of police brutality victims

 

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POTUS Spoke from Warsaw.



The furious demonstrations came as President Obama called for calm, but pleaded with police officers to treat minorities equally.


Obama said the recent spate of shootings was 'not just a black issue', saying all Americans should be troubled by black and Hispanic people being killed by cops.


The president was speaking in Warsaw, Poland, following the fatal police-involved shootings of street seller Alton Sterling, in Louisiana, and Philando Castile, in Minnesota.




'We have seen tragedies like these too many times,' a somber Obama said.




'When incidents like this occur, there's a big chunk of our fellow citizenry that feels as if - because of the color of their skin - they are not being treated the same. And that hurts. And that should trouble all of us.



'This is not just a black issue. It's not just a Hispanic issue. It's an American issue. All fair-minded people should be concerned.'

 

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Governor of Minnesota Mark Dayton also joined the calls for change, launching a startling attack on 'racism' in the police, saying he does not believe that Castile would have been shot dead on Wednesday if he was white.




Gov Dayton said there was 'every indication' that police conduct in the shooting of Castile, a black man, was 'way in excess' of what the situation warranted.



'Would this have happened if the driver and the passengers were white?', asked Mr Dayton. 'I don't think it would have.




'This kind of racism exists and it's incumbent on all of us to vow that we're gonna do all that we can to see that it doesn't continue to happen.'

 

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Maybe Obama should just keep his mouth shut.

 

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Blue Lives Matter! RIP

 

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[h=1]Sheriff Clarke: Obama’s ‘Reign of Terror’ Has Divided The American People[/h]By Penny Starr | March 3, 2016 | 2:05 PM EST


(CNSNews.com) – Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. said he believes President Barack Obama has damaged race relations in the United States and that he looks forward to when “we can finally turn the page on the Obama reign of terror” and heal some of the divisions Obama has created during his presidency.
“It’s been a very destructive period of time for the country as a whole and I’ll be glad when we can finally turn the page on the Obama reign of terror, as I call it, and we can go back to start healing some of this divide between the classes, between the races, between the sexes and some of these other demographics,” Clarke told CNSNews.com on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland.



CNSNews.com asked Clarke about the notion that as the first African American president, Obama would improve race relations in the United States, whether that had happened, and what the next president could do to bring Americans together.



“He never had any intention of bringing people together,” Clarke said. “He had the opportunity to do that.”


“I think a lot of people, including me, were hopeful that he would take the gains that we’ve made – because race relations will never be perfect, alright?” Clarke said. “But we’ve made great strides in bridging that divide, in bridging that gap and he came along and deconstructed the bridge that existed there because that’s part of his shtick , all right, to strike up animosity, you know.”


“He’s the one that was behind the war on women, pitting men against women, the rich against the poor, you know, the 1 percent [and] now the race relations,” Clarke said. “That’s how he has attained political power.”





“That’s the only thing that he knows how to do,” said the sheriff. “It got him to where he’s at today and that’s why he continues on it.”



“It’s been a very destructive period of time for the country as a whole, and I’ll be glad when we can finally turn the page on the Obama reign of terror, as I call it,” said Sheriff Clarke, “and we can go back to start healing some of this divide between the classes, between the races, between the sexes and some of these other demographics.”



David A. Clarke Jr., a Democrat, was elected to a 4-year term as the sheriff of Milwaukee County in 2002, and was re-elected in 2006, 2010 and 2014. In those elections he won, respectively, with 74%, 78%, 74%, and 79% of the vote.

 

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OBAMA -THE BIG FAT MOUTH


July 07, 2016, 07:36 pm
TRANSCRIPT: Obama comments on police involved shootings



President Obama's remarks on the police-involved shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile:

"Good evening everybody. I know that we've been on a long flight, but given the extraordinary interest in the shootings that took place in Louisiana and Minnesota, I thought it would be important for me to address all of you directly.

And I want to begin by expressing my condolences for the families of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

As I said in the statement that I posted on Facebook, we have seen tragedies like this too many times.

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation in Baton Rouge, and the governor of Minnesota has called for an investigation there as well. As is my practice, given my institutional role, I can’t comment on the specific facts of these cases; and I have confidence in the Department of Justice.

But what I can say is that all of us as Americans should be troubled by the shootings.

These are not isolated incidents. They’re symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system.

And I just want to give people a few statistics to try to put in context why emotions are so raw around these issues.

According to various studies, not just one, but a wide range of studies that have been carried out over a number of years, African Americans are 30 percent more likely than whites to be pulled over.

After being pulled over, African Americans and Hispanics are three times more likely to be searched.

Last year African Americans were shot by police at more than twice the rate of whites.

African Americans are arrested at twice the rate of whites;

African Americans defendants are 75 percent more likely to be charged with offenses carrying mandatory minimums.

They receive sentences that are almost ten percent longer than comparable whites arrested for the same crime.

So that if you add it all up, the African American and Hispanic population, who make up only 30 percent of the general population, make up more than half of the incarcerated population.


These are facts. And when incidents like this occur, there’s a big chunk of our fellow citizenry that feels as if because of the color of their skin they are not being treated the same.

And that hurts. And that should trouble all of us. This is not just a black issue. It’s not just a Hispanic issue


. This is an American issue that we should all care about; all fair minded people should be concerned.
Now let me just say that we have extraordinary appreciation and respect for the vast majority of police officers who put their line on the lives every day. They have a dangerous job. It is a tough job. And as I’ve said before, they have a right to go home to their families, just like anybody else on the job.
And there are gonna be circumstances where they’re gonna have to make split second decisions. We understand that.
But when we see data that indicates disparities in how African Americans and Latinos may be treated in various jurisdictions around the country, then it’s incumbent on all of us to say we are better than this. We are better than this.
And to not have it to degenerate into the usual political scrum, we should be able to step back, reflect and ask ourselves what can we do better so that everybody feels as if they’re equal under the law.
Now the good news is that there are practices that we can institute that will make a difference. Last year, we put together a task force that was comprised of civil rights activists and community leaders; but also law enforcement officials. Police captains, sheriffs. And they sat around the table and they looked at the data and looked at best practices. And they came up with specific recommendations and steps that could ensure that the trust between trust between communities and police departments were rebuilt and incidents like this would be less likely to occur.
And there’s some jurisdictions out there that have adopted these recommendations. But there are a whole bunch that have not.
And if anything good comes out of these tragedies, my hope is that communities around the country take a look and say, how can we implement these recommendations?
And that the overwhelming majority of police officers, who are doing a great job every single day and are doing their job without regard to race, that they encourage their leadership and organizations that represent them to get behind these recommendations. Because ultimately, if you can rebuild trust between communities and the police departments that serve them, that helps us solve crime problems.
That will make life easier for police officers. They will have more cooperation. They will be safer. They will be more likely to come home.
So it would be good for crime fighting and it will avert tragedy. And I’m encouraged by the fact that the majority of leadership in police departments around the country recognize this, but change has been too slow, and we have to have a greater sense of urgency about this.
I’m also encouraged, by the way, that we have bipartisan support for criminal justice reform working its way through Congress. It has stalled, and lost some momentum over the past couple of months, in part, because Congress is having difficulty, generally, moving legislation forward and we’re in a political season.
But there are people of goodwill on the Republican side and the Democratic side who I’ve seen want to get something done here. That too, would help provide greater assurance across the country that those in power, those in authority are taking these issues seriously.
So, this should be a spur to action to get that done, to get that across the finish line. Because I know there are a lot of people who want to get it done.
So let me just make a couple of final comments. I mentioned in my Facebook statement that I hope we don’t fall into typical patterns that occur after these kinds of incidents occur; where right away there’s a lot of political rhetoric, and it starts dividing people instead of bringing folks together.
To be concerned about these issues is not to be against law enforcement. There are times when these incidents occur and you see protests and you see vigils, and I get letters, well meaning letters sometimes from law enforcement saying, how come we’re under attack? How come not as much emphasis is made when police officers are shot?
So to all of law enforcement, I want to be very clear: we know you have a tough job. We mourn those in uniform who are protecting us who lose their lives. On a regular basis, I have joined with families in front of Capitol Hill to commemorate the incredible heroism that they’ve displayed. I’ve hugged family members who’ve lost loved ones doing the right thing. I know how much it hurts.
On a regular basis, we bring in those who’ve done heroic work in law enforcement and have survived. Sometimes they’ve been injured, sometimes they’ve risked their lives in remarkable ways. And we applaud them and appreciate them. Because they’re doing a really tough job really well.
There is no contradiction between us supporting law enforcement, making sure they have the equipment they need, making sure they’re collective bargaining rights are recognized, making sure they’re adequately staffed, making sure that they are respected, making sure that their families are supported. And also saying that there are problems across our criminal justice system. There are biases, some conscious and unconscious that have to be rooted out. That’s not an attack on law enforcement. That is reflective of the values that the vast majority of law enforcement bring to the job.
But I repeat, if communities are mistrustful of the police, that makes those law enforcement officers who are doing a great job, and are doing the right thing, it makes their lives harder. So, when people say 'black lives matter,' it doesn’t mean 'blue lives' don’t matter, it just means all lives matter. But right now, the big concern is the fact that data shows black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents.
This isn’t a matter of us comparing the value of lives, this is recognizing that there is a particular burden being placed on a group of our fellow citizens. And we should care about that. We can’t dismiss it. We can’t dismiss it.
So let me just end by saying I actually, genuinely, truly believe that the vast majority of the American people see this as a problem that we should all care about. And I would just ask those who question the sincerity or legitimacy of protests and vigils and expressions of outrage who somehow label those expressions of outrage as quote unquote political correctness, I just ask folks to step back and think: what if this happened to someone in your family? How would you feel?
To be concerned about these issues is not political correctness, it’s just being American and wanting to live up to our best and highest ideals.
And it’s to recognize the reality that we’ve got some tough history and we haven’t gotten through all of that history yet. And we don’t expect that in my lifetime maybe not in my children’s lifetimes that all the vestiges of that past will have been cured, will have been solved.
But we can do better. People of goodwill can do better. And doing better involves not just addressing potential bias in the criminal justice system, it’s recognizing that too often we’re asking police to man the barricades in communities that have been forgotten by all of us for way too long. In terms of substandard schools, inadequate jobs and a lack of opportunity.
We’ve gotta tackle those things. We can do better. And I believe we will do better.
Thanks very much, everybody."

 

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Wild and out of control. Never listen to authority and put the police in the position to have to shoot.

 

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Leadership matters

Words matter



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Leadership matters

Words matter



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if you're talking to the lying race baiting POS occupying Casa Blanca , forgetaboutit, the man is pure scum with law enforcement blood on his hands

if you're talking to the fucking idiots, then

 

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Chicago last week 2 people shot every hour for 15 hours, and no one said anything , none hit the medias profile as an important killing.



The POTUS policies that have driven Americans apart and kept African Americans in poverty and hopelessness, the ideology that black lives matter is baloney, all lives matter of all backgrounds.

 

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Chicago last week 2 people shot every hour for 15 hours, and no one said anything , none hit the medias profile as an important killing.



The POTUS policies that have driven Americans apart and kept African Americans in poverty and hopelessness, the ideology that black lives matter is baloney, all lives matter of all backgrounds.

the idiot in the White House doesn't know the reason why blacks are incarcerated at higher percentages is

1) they commit violent crimes at higher percentages (the single most important statistic that the POS liar pretends doesn't exist)
2) since they're from dysfunctional families created in large part by LBJ's The Great Society, they don't have two nickels to defend themselves