Obama calls for calm in Ferguson as he announces Eric Holder will visit riot-hit town

[Constitutional Paulicy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osjnGkft9Lc


'We should seek understanding rather than holler at each other': Obama calls for calm in Ferguson as he announces Eric Holder will visit riot-hit town
By Francesca Chambers for MailOnline
Published: 18:27 GMT, 18 August 2014 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 18 August 2014


President Barack Obama again called for calm in Ferguson on Monday and announced that Attorney General Eric Holder would travel to the distressed Missouri town later this week.

In a live statement from the White House Obama said Americans need to 'seek out our humanity that's been laid bare by this moment.'

'Let's seek to heal rather than wound each other,' Obama stated. 'We should seek understanding rather than holler at each other.'

The president said he understood the 'passions and anger' pumping through the veins of Ferguson residents, but 'giving into that anger' by looting and fighting with police only 'undermines rather than advancing justice.'


more here... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2728186/White-House-not-informed-Missouri-Governors-decision-deploy-National-Guard-Ferguson-report-claims.html

[thoughtomator]

Ah yes, send the man who made his reputation at OKC, Ruby Ridge, and Waco.

[tod evans]

If those folks in Ferguson have any sense at all they'll run Holder off with big sticks!

That's one man hanging is too good for.

[Philhelm]

Private Hudson: "He's coming in. I feel safer already."

[invisible]

Ah yes, send the man who made his reputation at OKC, Ruby Ridge, and Waco.

Don't forget that the 1993 WTC and 911 are both on his resume, too. This guy has had over 20 years' experience with these sort of investigative whitewashes, and his expertise will be sorely needed here as well.

[phill4paul]

He's such a man of the people....


President Barack Obama interrupted his Martha's Vineyard vacation and returned to the White House Sunday evening to meet with Vice President Joe Biden and military officials to handle crises at home and abroad.

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According to AP, the president isn't going to miss that much time on the golf course as he is noted to return to Martha's Vineyard on Tuesday and will stay through next weekend.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/08/president_obama_cancels_vacation_returns_to_white_ house.html?wpisrc=burger

[tod evans]

The nation is probably better off with that idiot out on the links anyway.

[tod evans]

What time is Uncle Tom, er....Holder due to arrive?

Who thinks he'll try to set foot in public?

[DamianTV]

What time is Uncle Tom, er....Holder due to arrive?

Who thinks he'll try to set foot in public?

Maybe Obama is trying to get rid of Holder for some reason? What better way to do it than to send him into harms way as an excuse to even further increase intervention?

[Dianne]

Just to show we have Amos and Andy running the entire United States; bimbo Obama said in his speech Eric Holder works for him... HELLO???? Eric Holder works for me, he is not your personal attorney Barry ... He works for the United States citizens .. And By the Way, Obama ... SO DO YOU !!!!

[phill4paul]

Maybe Obama is trying to get rid of Holder for some reason? What better way to do it than to send him into harms way as an excuse to even further increase intervention?

That'd sure clear up that whole Fast and Furious mess.

[enhanced_deficit]

Will SWC disgrace go back to golfing vacation?

[Mani]

He sending Eric Holder to do what?? Mark X's on where to send the drones?


We don't have time for this...Just take out the city...

[tod evans]

When's Uncle Tom supposed to stick his head up?

[tod evans]

Faux just updated;

Holder takes on Ferguson: AG ‘flooding the zone’ with investigators, heads to Missouri

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/19/holder-takes-on-ferguson-ag-flooding-zone-with-investigators-heads-to-missouri/

Attorney General Eric Holder, one of President Obama’s longest-serving and most controversial deputies, is taking the lead in the federal government’s response to the roiling tensions in a St. Louis suburb over the police shooting of an unarmed man.

While the president, who is in Washington for two days of meetings, returns Tuesday evening to his family vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, Holder will head to Ferguson, Mo., where protests continue to give way to riots and looting on a nightly basis – straining law enforcement previously accused of being heavy-handed in their response.

From the White House, Obama is keeping a reserved tone by calling for calm on both sides, urging protesters to stay peaceful and police to show restraint. But at the Justice Department, Holder is committing what is being described as an “extraordinary” effort to investigate the local case.

“They’re basically flooding the zone [with investigators],” Thomas Dupree, former deputy assistant attorney general under the George W. Bush administration, told Fox News. “It’s an extraordinary level of commitment for an incident of this nature.”

Dupree said the response shows this case is something Holder “is personally invested in.”

Holder will visit Ferguson on Wednesday to meet with the FBI agents and other Justice Department personnel on the scene, as well as local community leaders. Holder’s Justice Department already has opened a federal civil rights probe – according to Politico, federal investigators are conducting hundreds of interviews and turning up information the local police haven’t – and conducted an additional autopsy of 18-year-old Michael Brown’s body.

A top DOJ official is heading to Ferguson Tuesday in advance of Holder’s arrival to work with local police.

Whether Holder and his department will ease or inflame tensions remains to be seen – it’s the same question that hangs over Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s decision to call in the National Guard.

Dupree voiced concerns that Holder is sending a signal to his department that there is a “correct outcome.”

“I don’t want to say they’ve prejudged it, but the statements he’s saying I think could lead people to conclude that there’s a right way and a wrong way to do things in the mind of the attorney general,” he said.

Holder said Monday that the “full resources” of DOJ are being committed, including more than 40 FBI agents on the ground.

“I realize there is tremendous interest in the facts of the incident that led to Michael Brown’s death, but I ask for the public’s patience as we conduct this investigation,” Holder said in a statement. “The selective release of sensitive information that we have seen in this case so far is troubling to me. No matter how others pursue their own separate inquiries, the Justice Department is resolved to preserve the integrity of its investigation. This is a critical step in restoring trust between law enforcement and the community, not just in Ferguson, but beyond.”

Holder also called for an end to violence and looting in Ferguson.

Holder, one of the few remaining members of the original Obama Cabinet, remains a lightning rod figure in Washington, for his role in several controversies. The Republican-led House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress in 2012, in connection with the botched Fast and Furious anti-gun-trafficking operation. His department more recently came under scrutiny for its surveillance of members of the media, and for allegedly not doing enough to investigate the IRS over alleged targeting of conservatives.

On matters of race, Holder has been outspoken. He called the country a “nation of cowards” on racial issues in 2009. As Obama did, he publicly identified with Trayvon Martin – the black teenager shot by George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012 – recalling incidents of racial profiling he faced as a young man.

This time, Obama has shied away from personalizing his response to the Ferguson shooting. But Holder is showing an acute interest in the case.

So far, his involvement is drawing praise from the state’s Republican senator, Roy Blunt, but also words of caution. Blunt said that he and Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill will join the attorney general on Wednesday, and that he’s been “pleased with my conversations with the attorney general and civil rights division regarding their helpful understanding that they aren't taking over this investigation, but are conducting a parallel review.”

He called a “parallel federal investigation” into the death “important” but cautioned against DOJ taking on too large a role.

“While the federal government can assist with that investigation, the federal government should not assume the state and local governments' responsibilities,” Blunt said in a statement.

[muh_roads]

If those folks in Ferguson have any sense at all they'll run Holder off with big sticks!

That's one man hanging is too good for.

Too bad Holder isn't white. Some of the black sheep will embrace him, sadly. Sheep vote for sheep.

[thoughtomator]

Too bad Holder isn't white. Some of the black sheep will embrace him, sadly. Sheep vote for sheep.

Eric Holder is as "white", manner wise, as any person can possibly be. He will be recognized as one of "them" despite his skin color.

[Root]

If those folks in Ferguson have any sense at all they'll run Holder off with big sticks!

That's one man hanging is too good for.
Let's hope so!!