Perhaps the biggest problem with the reaction of Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, to the grand jury verdict in Ferguson is their non-support for the difficult work of the grand jury.
[From article]
On November 25, Obama said that the “grand jury made a decision yesterday that upset a lot of people.” He had no words of praise for members of the grand jury, both black and white, for engaging in their civic duty in the face of mob violence, threats, and media scapegoating -- a media that was pushing an incorrect story about what happened without reviewing the extensive evidence in the case.
This would have been the perfect time for the president to reinforce our faith in the legal system, a system that is one of the best and fairest in the world. He could have pointed out that, while a tragedy occurred here in that a young man lost his life, the judgment of these jurors should be respected, not just “accepted.”
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Obama should have recognized the anger on the street in Ferguson was being fueled by false stories that had no real basis in fact.
But the president did none of that. Instead, he added more fuel to the fire of the false claim that racial bias was at the root of what happened, and that this problem is a pervasive one.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/obamas-ferguson-misstep-11779
Obama's Ferguson Misstep
Perhaps the biggest problem with the reaction of Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, to the grand jury verdict in Ferguson is their non-support for the difficult work of the grand jury.
Hans A. von Spakovsky
December 3, 2014
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