Obama administration called thousands of civil rights, black leaders on Ferguson crisis

[applegrove]

Obama administration called thousands of civil rights, black leaders on Ferguson crisis

by 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 Department’s 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 Missouri’s two senators.


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[Cha]

1. The President and Team are doing everything possible to keep this calm so

they can better serve Justice for Michael Brown .

mahalo apple~

[brer cat]

2. I think working behind the scenes

as he is doing is for the best.

Thanks for the thread, applegrove.

[onecaliberal]

3. Thank you

At least someone is thinking about the people.

[sheshe2]

4. Yes.

This President and his team are focused. They are doing it right.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Something that many are unwilling to acknowledge about this President is ...

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]

13. THANK YOU!

[Egnever]

15. His most amazing trait IMHO

And I think it is why he will be looked at by history very favorably.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, applegrove.

[Number23]

7. 'Whoops' to the "he's not screaming loud enough" crowd

The White House said its response to the Brown shooting began on Aug. 10, the day after the incident, when Department of Justice Community Relations Service employees were sent to Ferguson to “open lines of communication between protesters and local authorities.”

The next day, Aug. 11, Holder announced the DOJ would conduct a “fulsome review” and a “concurrent, federal” investigation of the shooting.

[tavalon]

10. I was one of those screaming

So, yeah, I'll take the hit. I think this approach, for now, is best.

[sheshe2]

11. 'Whoops' to the "he's not screaming loud enough" crowd

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]

8. I applaud Obama on this.

But where were he and Holder during and after OWS?

[cantbeserious]

12. + 1,000

eom

[zentrum]

9. Hope they talked about a

.....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]

14. bus tour will be announced soon

2nd terms are always difficult.

whats going on now,
reminds me of ( two years ago? IIRC)
President Obama's effort on gun control

[bigtree]

16. he needs to call the fucking police!! THEY'RE THE PROBLEM

. . . 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]

17. He needs to call Capt Johnson. The officers under his command went batshit crazy tonight

https://twitter.com/KatCaulder/status/501971229964648450

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https://twitter.com/NewsRevo/status/501960015641870336/

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https://twitter.com/mattmendoza/status/501966059101224960
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https://twitter.com/Emma_Salum/status/501977069753233408
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[1StrongBlackMan]

19. What makes you think President Obama hasn't? ...

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]

20. This.

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]

23. Please ... Okay. eom.

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. Funny ...

I just heard a snippet on NPR, how President Obama hasn't reached out to Black "leaders".

[Rex]

21. NPR seems to have gone over to the GOP side.

Or so I've been told.

[Lars39]

22. This is good.

He's helping the organizers organize.