‘I’m The Attorney General, But I’m Also a Black Man’August 21, 2014
How can you expect any "impartial" investigation when holder embraces the likes of these two "money grabbing, race baiting scavengers, like sharpton and jackson
‘I’m The Attorney General, But I’m Also a Black Man’: Eric Holder Stirs Racial Tension in Ferguson
Attorney General Eric Holder arrived in Ferguson, Missouri on Wednesday to oversee the federal investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown and spoke with residentsabout how the case isn’t just about a police shooting but about living as a black man in America. “I am the Attorney General of the United States, but I am also a black man,” Holder said, speaking to Ferguson residents at a community meeting. “I can remember being stopped on the New Jersey turnpike on two occasions and accused of speeding. Pulled over… ‘Let me search your car’… Go through the trunk of my car, look under the seats and all this kind of stuff. I remember how humiliating that was and how angry I was and the impact it had on me.” “At the time that [officer] stopped me, I was a federal prosecutor,” Holder added. “I wasn’t a kid. I was a federal prosecutor. I worked at the United States Department of Justice.” “The eyes of the nation and the world are watching Ferguson right now,” Holder continued. “The world is watching because the issues raised by the shooting of Michael Brown predate this incident. This is something that has a history to it, the history simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.” The Justice Department is investigating a possible civil rights violation related to the shooting. In an unusual move, Holder has ordered a federal autopsy, the third autopsy to be performed on Brown’s body. “Our investigation is different,” Holder told reporters. “We’re looking for possible violations of federal civil rights statutes.”.............If they don't find any, he can always make up a few !!!
WHEN WE GET INTO A FULL BLOWN, NATIONWIDE "RACE WAR" REMEMBER WHO IS TO BLAME.........THE MEDIA !!
A BLACK Salt Lake City police officer shot and killed UNARMED 20-year-old Dillon Taylor outside a convenience store Aug. 11, 2014.
While national news media continue to focus on race in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, they apparently don’t think a similar case in Utah with the races reversed is that newsworthy.
Police in Salt Lake City are continuing their probe into an Aug. 11 shooting outside a 7-Eleven convenience store, when a black police officer, whom local media are referring to as “not white,” shot and killed 20-year-old Dillon Taylor, who is white and was unarmed at the time, according to his supporters.
Police Chief Chris Burbank said the entire incident was captured on the body camera of the officer who shot Taylor.
“You will see on camera … the actions of everyone involved, including up to the point where our officer utilizes deadly force and his response thereafter,” Burbank told reporters. More @ WNDThanx to "Free North Carolina" for this story
AND HE IS PERSONALLY GOING TO SEARCH EVERY INCH OF Farm Neck Golf Club IN MARTHAS VINYARD LOOKING FOR THE TERRORIST THAT BEHEADED JOURNALIST JAMES FOLEY
president barack obama said Wednesday the United States will be relentless in seeking justice for an American journalist beheaded by terrorist group the Islamic State.
The late media critic Edwin Diamond once notably quipped that to the American news media, "10,000 deaths in Nepal equals 100 deaths in Wales equals 10 deaths in West Virginia equals one death next door." When it comes to race relations, a similar rule applies. 400,000 civilians have been
murdered in Darfur, but one death of a black man in Missouri, allegedly due to white police brutality, is infinitely more newsworthy. The national media are currently obsessed with Michael Brown's killing by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, just as they obsessed over Trayvon Martin's killing in Sanford, Florida.
Kendra Turner was brought up right. She’s the kind of kid who says “yes sir” and “no ma’am.” She was "raised up right," with good manners as they are prone to say around Dyersburg, Tennessee. So it was not out of character for Kendra to say “bless you” after a fellow classmate sneezed. But that common courtesy landed the 18-year-old in hot water. Kendra said she was rebuked by her teacher at Dyer County High School and thrown out of class for violating the teacher’s ban on the words “bless you.” The school would have us believe that a child telling a classmate “bless you” after a sneeze somehow caused a classroom commotion so severe it warranted a punishment? It’s a good thing Kendra didn’t offer her classmate a tissue. STORY + VIDEO
Immediately After Giving Speech Condemning ISIS, President Obama Heads Over to the Golf Course
President Obama had strong words for ISIS in a press conference Wednesday afternoon after their despicable beheading of American photojournalist James Foley. But his actions mere minutes later had many questioning his focus and resolve on tackling the terrorist threat:
Obama’s press conference was terse and brief, and he took no questions afterward. He made vague promises that America would bring the terrorists to justice, but mostly stuck to condemning their actions without clearly laying out what he would to as Commander-in-Chief. REST OF STORY
Way for the president to go "Fore-ward"...
Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source
Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital (eye socket) fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, a source close to the department's top brass told FoxNews.com.
“The Assistant (Police) Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side,” said the insider. “He was beaten very severely.”
According to the well-placed source, Wilson was coming off another case in the neighborhood on Aug. 9 when he ordered Michael Brown and his friend Dorain Johnson to stop walking in the middle of the road because they were obstructing traffic. However, the confrontation quickly escalated into physical violence, the source said..
“They ignored him and the officer started to get out of the car to tell them to move," the source said. "They shoved him right back in, that’s when Michael Brown leans in and starts beating Officer Wilson in the head and the face. STORY AND VIDEO
video 'authentic,' Obama vows 'relentless' fight against ISIS
President Obama, reacting to the brutal execution of an American journalist by Islamic State terrorists, said Wednesday that the militant organization has "no place in the 21st century," as U.S. intelligence analysts confirmed the authenticity of a video showing the journalist's beheading. The president, in brief remarks from Martha's Vineyard, said the video of James Foley's death "shocks the conscience," while vowing to continue the fight against the organization which has taken root across swaths of Iraq and Syria. He called for a "common effort" across the Middle East to "extract this cancer so it does not spread."
"The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people," Obama said. "We will be vigilant and we will be relentless."
Military analysts and U.S. lawmakers also say the execution should be a wake-up call to the need to dismantle the militant organization. READ MORE
ALSO.............'Lopsided' deal with enemy for Bergdahl in sharp contrast to inaction on Tahmooressi, say critics
Supporters of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi (l.), say the Obama administration has forgotten him while going to great lengths to free Army St. Bowe Bergdahl, (r.).
The Obama administration’s extraordinary effort to free Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has some wondering why the president can’t make a simple phone call on behalf of a former Marine being held in a Mexican prison after mistakenly driving across the border with registered guns. Obama announced Saturday in a dramatic Rose Garden news conference that five Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay would be exchanged for Bergdahl, a 28-year-old infantryman held captive for five years by the terrorist group. The swap angered many in the military and on Capitol Hill, because it went against long-standing policy of not bargaining with terrorists.
" ... as far the Administration went for Bergdahl, Andrew Tahmooressi is still stuck in a Mexican jail for making a wrong turn and the only thing grabbing the President’s attention so far is an online petition that forces him to respond."- Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Tom DeLay sees 'vendetta' in Perry indictment Aug. 19, 2014Former House leader sounds off
Watchdogs claim gov't agencies are stonewalling probes Aug. 06, 2014Lack of administration transparency?
Holder takes on Ferguson: AG ‘flooding the 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.
A Mississippi sheriff says a man was beaten and shot two weeks after calling authorities to report a cross burning in his yard, and investigators are trying to determine whether the attack was prompted by people being upset that the man was visited by his mixed-race grandchildren.
Deputies were called to a disturbance Friday night in a rural community outside Raleigh. Craig Wilson, 45, had been shot in the stomach and beaten and was taken to University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, said Smith County Sheriff Charlie Crumpton. He was in fair condition Tuesday, a hospital spokesman said.
St. Louis Cops Shoot and Kill Man Near Ferguson, Crowd Gathers
Two St. Louis city police officers shot and killed a black man who came within several feet of them brandishing a knife on Tuesday a few miles from the turbulent suburb of Ferguson, authorities said.A crowd of at least 100 people quickly gathered at the scene. Some people chanted, “Hands up! Don’t shoot!”
Is Ferguson Our Future?Pat Buchanan | Aug 19, 2014
America is on trial," said rev. al sharpton from the pulpit of Greater St Mark's Family Church in Ferguson, Missouri. [Keep Reading]if you can stomach it !!
NYT Editoral Board: The Indictment Against Rick Perry "Appears" to be "Overzealous"Daniel Doherty | Aug 19, 2014
Add the New York Timeseditorial board to the growing list of constitutional scholars, journalists, and political operatives who find the curious indictment against Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) to be a farce. The board doesn’t go as far as defending his tenure or his policies (in fact, they do the opposite) but they do nevertheless feel as if he is the victim of an “overzealous prosecution”: Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is one of the least thoughtful and most damaging state leaders in America, having done great harm to immigrants, abortion clinics and people without health insurance during his 14 years in office. But bad political judgment is not necessarily a felony, and the indictment handed up against him on Friday — given the facts so far — appears to be the product of an overzealous prosecution. For more than a year, Mr. Perry has been seeking the resignation of the Travis County district attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg. He had good reason to do so: Ms. Lehmberg was arrested in April 2013 for driving with a blood alcohol level of more than three times the legal limit, and she verbally abused the officers who found her with an open bottle of vodka. She ranted and raved at the local jail, threatening sheriff’s deputies, and she had to be restrained in a chair with a hood over her head. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 45 days in jail. In addition to endangering people’s lives, she instantly lost her credibility as a prosecutor of drunken-driving cases. [Keep Reading]
I do all of my blogging on my laptop, but when I am away for most weekends the Wi-Fi doesn't always work. This past weekend was particularly bad. Nature of the beast !!
Cell phone video shows a skateboarder violently attack a park ranger in LOVE Park Friday afternoon.
Sunday, Aug 17, 2014 • Updated at 8:08 PM EDT
Philadelphia Police are investigating a cell phone video showing a skateboarder kicking a city park ranger in his head and then spitting on the man in Philadelphia's LOVE Park Friday. The 35-year-old park ranger approached three teen skateboarders and advised them they could not skate in the park.
"I ain't (explective) leaving," said one skateboarder before punching the park ranger in the face and wrestling him to the ground.
The violent altercation occurred around 5 p.m. in the iconic Center City park, located at 15th Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard, according to Mariano Verrico, of Essex Fells, N.J., who caught the fight on camera.
"He got kicked in the head repeatedly and spit on," Verrico said. "When he was down towards the end..., the one kid who did everything leaned down and spit on him. It was really disgraceful."