Obama To Protesters: Don’t Use Ferguson As An ‘Excuse For Violence’

President Barack Obama thas a simple message for demonstrators in Ferguson, Mo.: "keep protests peaceful."
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President Barack Obama told ABC News on Friday that he has a simple message for demonstrators in Ferguson, Mo.: “keep protests peaceful.”

“This is a country that allows everybody to express their views, allows them to peacefully assemble, to protest actions that they think are unjust,” the President told George Stephanopoulos in an interview set to air Sunday on “This Week.”

“But using any event as an excuse for violence is contrary to rule of law and contrary to who we are,” he continued.

A grand jury decision on whether to indict white police Officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown is expected any day now. Obama joins Attorney General Eric Holder in urging peaceful, nonviolent protest ahead of the announcement.

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  1. Explain to me once again how a police officer can shoot a young man multiple times from over 100 feet away, killing that young man and claim it was done in “self defense”, and not be indicted by a grand jury to stand trial. I just want to know how that can happen in the USA’s system of justice. If the situation were reversed, and the young man had shot and killed that cop, that young man would either be in jail now or already shot dead by another cop.

  2. no chance… People of ferguson don’t care about the grand jury they just want a chance to do violence. CBS reported two people were arrested for buying different parts to make explosives. This is going to be ugly and wont be the cops fault

  3. “But using any event as an excuse for violence is contrary to rule of law and contrary to who we are,” he continued

    That comment should be also directed at Ferguson’s Finest, dontcha think?

  4. Don’t believe a word that the FBI, CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox says, ever. All of this is fascist propaganda. Something may be true they say, but their track records argue against any truth coming from these vapid dolts.

  5. Time for Obama to go back to bed. He’s overstayed his welcome.

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