Obama Meets on Ferguson
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Obama at a loss on Ferguson
President Obama’s admirers continue to call for him to go to Ferguson, Mo. to make a “powerful, nuanced, careful case” on the subject of “relations between African Americans and police departments.” Yes, but what would he say? Unless the president has a proposed law or action to take on the subject, jawboning on the subject seems very unlikely to change many minds on the subject. If the much more fraught case of Trayvon Martin couldn’t change the national discourse, how is the Ferguson storyline going to do it? Obama’s supporters...
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Obama to Host Meetings on Ferguson Protests on Monday
President Barack Obama will spend Monday grappling with the fallout of a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
Mr. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are scheduled to attend three meetings at the White House on Monday related to the August shooting in Ferguson, Mo., the violent protests in the St. Louis suburb, and the protest movement that has spread across the nation.
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Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House
President Obama is planning a day of meetings at the White House on Monday to respond to the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and racially tinged anger across the country after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager.
Mr. Obama, who has labored to strike the right balance in reacting to the crisis, has not scheduled a trip to Ferguson despite days of speculation about a presidential visit there.
But he will gather his cabinet on Monday to discuss the...
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