President Barack Obama said Thursday night that there was “no excuse” for the shooting of two police officers at a protest outside the Ferguson, Mo. police department.
“What had been happening in Ferguson was oppressive and objectionable and was worthy of protests. But there was no excuse for criminal acts,” he said in an appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
The President called for the arrests of whoever shot the officers, but said that the crime shouldn’t detract from the issues raised by the protests in Ferguson.
“What we need to do is to make sure that like-minded, good-spirited people on both sides — law enforcement, who have a terrifically tough job, and people who understandably don’t want to be stopped and harassed just because of their race — that we’re able to work together to try come up with some good answers,” he said.
Obama added that a scathing Justice Department report released last week, which found blacks were disproportionately stopped and ticketed by police in order to raise revenue for the city, showed that the Ferguson community had “very legitimate grievances.”
“There was a whole structure there, according to the DOJ report, that indicated both racism and just a disregard for what law enforcement is supposed to do,” he said.
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What an odd headline. Was there ever a possibility that Obama would condone a shooting of a cop? Is that the real story here, or is it that the President’s rightly putting emphasis on what the report said about a legal system run amok in Ferguson?
But the President did order the killing of an Ambassador in Benghazi!!!..
The Ferguson protesters don’t support shooting police officers either, but don’t tell conservatives that, it will interrupt their rage orgy.
Well, for certain minds (yo, justamarine, what up?*) it’s very challenging to understand that on the one hand you can condemn systematic racism and exploitation in a particular town and on the other hand deplore and not be responsible for people shooting at police officers there. You’ll notice the AG went out of his way to condemn police shooting too, as if there might be some question about it. You know, I really do love this country, the purple mountains and amber waves, the dear hearts and gentle people that live in my home town, all that, but Jesus Christ the political discourse gets stupider by the day.
*Actual justamarine quote from yesterday: “It is devolving into this because of comments and actions by the race baiters on the left to include the AG and POTUS.”
Yes, but did the President call this a “terrorist attack” in real time? That’s what’s really important here. Oh, wait … Americans can’t be terrorists (unless they’re Muslims, of course); they’re just Christians who have been persecuted beyond endurance . Never mind – sorry I brought it up,