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Eric Garner’s Daughter Says ABC News Silenced Her During Race Symposium With Obama

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The daughter of Eric Garner, the man who died two years ago after New York City police placed him in a chokehold, walked out of an ABC News taping of a town hall with President Barack Obama Thursday in protest, saying network producers broke a promise to highlight her questions.

Erica Garner is now denouncing the session on race, saying she was “lied to” and was “railroaded” by ABC producers who ignored her questions for the president.

“ABC is using black lives as a rating and to get paid,” Garner told HuffPost in an exclusive video statement. “They guaranteed me that I would be asking the president direct questions about what’s going on. I was lied to.”


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Yo this town hall that presidential town hall #abc arranged is a farce. It was nothing short of full exploitation of Black pain and grief

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ABC didn’t immediately issue a statement on the controversy. Reggie Harris, Garner’s political adviser, said producers told him the head of Disney, ABC’s parent company, considered Garner “a major political figure” and specifically asked for her to attend the session.

Ultimately, Garner met with Obama briefly backstage. “I am sorry for your loss,” the president said as he shook Garner’s hand.

Garner, whose father died in July 2014 after a confrontation that police said began with him selling loose cigarettes, said she felt disrespected by ABC producers, who didn’t give her the opportunity to ask about the federal investigation into her father’s death and improved policing policies.

“I had to stage a walkout by myself,” Garner said. “And I went out there I had to yell, scream, and eventually I was able to speak to the president. It’s a shame as black people that we have to yell and become belligerent to have our voices heard.”

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Harris took video of Garner’s backstage meeting with Obama, in which she asked about the Justice Department investigation into her father’s death.

“I promise you people are hearing it and I wouldn’t be spending all this time here if I wasn’t concerned about it,” Obama told Garner in the video, provided exclusively to HuffPost. “But I have to make sure that we don’t get in a situation that there’s a perception that, in any way, these kinds of investigations are being influenced.

“I just wanted to say that respectfully, but I am sorry for your loss,” Obama added.

Garner then asked the president about a federal program that provides military weapons to local police departments.

“We have already impacted it and we have reformed it and we will provide you information on that,” Obama said, referencing an announcement he made in May to restrict police from obtaining certain military equipment.

Harris said Obama then left the meeting, but his senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, continued speaking with Garner. Jarrett said Obama didn’t know about ABC’s agreement to allow Garner to ask her questions during the session, according to Harris.

Garner said she travelled to Washington during a busy week in which she’s also prepping for a march in New York City on Sunday to mark the anniversary of her father’s death.

There are “so many things I could’ve done this weekend to prepare for Sunday for my march and commemorate the memory of my dad,” Garner told HuffPost. “Not once did they mention Eric Garner or acknowledge the family. I say we rise up and say enough is enough.”

Harris told HuffPost that the network had promised to allow Garner to present her questions to the president.

“This is some bullshit,” Harris said. “They invited us out here, promising us they’d give us a chance to speak. I negotiated, I said, ‘If any questions get asked, can we guarantee it’ll be Erica’s? And [the ABC rep] said, ‘I promise you.’”

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Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, told HuffPost she immediately walked out after Garner did.

“It was honestly one of the worst experiences you could’ve put families through,” Cullors said. “It was all about apologizing about the cops, it was just a mess ... It felt like a love-fest for cops. The entire show was about respectability politics. It was so staged and so curated.

“We denounce the ABC Town Hall ― it wasn’t a town hall,” she said. “I’m upset with ABC and how they handled it. They curated a town hall that forced black people to be re-traumatized and didn’t allow for a real constructive conversation about what we’re going to do about race issues in this country.”

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I feel why she is upset, but I hope she has a better understanding of how media works. Some times a person has to experience that first hand. She expected these devils to keep a promise? I guess she didn't pay too much attention to how they was reporting her fathers death. She put trust in them, got her hopes up, only to be crushed.

They arent listening, so how much 'marching' and 'conversation' can they have when all that is happening is them ignoring us? She got bamboozled. Brilliant human manipulation. They set her up from jump and she was blinded. She actually trusted the media.:smh:
 
Selfscience said:
I feel why she is upset, but I hope she has a better understanding of how media works. Some times a person has to experience that first hand. She expected these devils to keep a promise? I guess she didn't pay too much attention to how they was reporting her fathers death. She put trust in them, got her hopes up, only to be crushed.

They arent listening, so how much 'marching' and 'conversation' can they have when all that is happening is them ignoring us? She got bamboozled. Brilliant human manipulation. They set her up from jump and she was blinded. She actually trusted the media.:smh:
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make to sure to watch His & Hers

ya'll do not know the HALF

be prepared

your blood pressure about to sky rocket.
 
Ignorance had her expecting to be treated fairly by da white media....

Im sure she knows da deal now :smh:
 
There is very little Obama can do about the police situation. Each city, county and state are represented by locally elected officials and those are the people in charge of the police in your neighborhood. I can understand white dominated areas to be governed and policed by racist cops but there is absolutely no excuse for police abuse in black communities which are governed by majority black people.

Our favorite show The Wire demonstrated perfectly how local government influences police behavior and the way they interact with the community they are supposed to be serving and protecting.
 
Where is fatback Sharpton? Isn't the president his man? Couldn't he talk to him to have her of all people get her word in?

Or was that relationship a farce too?
 
These open forums are a waste of time.

would think black folks would know this by now,how many decades we been having the same ol conversations about race.

until white folks can come to admit they are running a system of white supremacy/racism these convos are not worth attending/listening to.
 
Playing devil's advocate (as I often do on BGOL)... there were 200+ people at the Town Hall Meeting, all of whom probably wanted to "be heard", and literally dozens of whom had also lost a loved one just the same as Erica. Could it be possible that they simply didn't get around to her question in the time frame of ONE HOUR? Should it have been an ALL DAY event? Did *you* personally listen with an open mind even for that one hour before ADHD set in? And God forbid nobody had reached out to Erica to participate. All of this was put together in less than a week. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Those of you casually screaming FUCK OBAMA can look forward to a future President Trump making everything better.

 
SKATTA said:
These open forums are a waste of time.

would think black folks would know this by now,how many decades we been having the same ol conversations about race.

until white folks can come to admit they are running a system of white supremacy/racism these convos are not worth attending/listening to.
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Roland Martin said last night,it was a waste of time.When I saw they was going to have the mother of Michael Slager and that Baltimore mother,who beat up her son,I knew it was going to be bullshit




It starts at the 6:36 mark
 
 
Hotlantan said:
Playing devil's advocate (as I often do on BGOL)... there were 200+ people at the Town Hall Meeting, all of whom probably wanted to "be heard", and literally dozens of whom had also lost a loved one just the same as Erica. Could it be possible that they simply didn't get around to her question in the time frame of ONE HOUR? Should it have been an ALL DAY event? Did *you* personally listen with an open mind even for that one hour before ADHD set in? And God forbid nobody had reached out to Erica to participate. All of this was put together in less than a week. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Those of you casually screaming FUCK OBAMA can look forward to a future President Trump making everything better.

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I'll bite. All those other 200+ people didn't have videp evidence of their father being choked by the police. Eric Garnder is one of the many reasons they.had that bullshit ass special. Hopefully she learned that the media is against us. She should have parascoped it
 
Tha Great Muta said:
I'll bite. All those other 200+ people didn't have videp evidence of their father being choked by the police. Eric Garnder is one of the many reasons they.had that bullshit ass special. Hopefully she learned that the media is against us. She should have parascoped it
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If a 100 more niggas got shot they would not have that special. Them pigs dying is what really made them do this bullshit special.

If her father was a police it would be a different story.
 
Peace,

I'm honestly surprised that people thought it was going to be anything other than what it turned out to be: a complete joke. As I've mentioned, the entire premise of the conversation was faulty.

For one, this isn't a shared problem. White supremacy that leads to black murder is an issue that those mfs need to fix in themselves.

Also, law enforcement hasn't been victimized, and I refuse to listen to anyone stupid enough to think they have been.
 
Tha Great Muta said:
I'll bite. All those other 200+ people didn't have videp evidence of their father being choked by the police. Eric Garnder is one of the many reasons they.had that bullshit ass special. Hopefully she learned that the media is against us. She should have parascoped it
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Keeping in mind that the President's involvement was blocking off the afternoon to participate, if you were putting the Town Hall together, what would you have done differently? Just not done anything public at all - ignoring that these problems are even worth acknowledging to never speak on just like Donald and the RNC and quite frankly also Hillary and the DNC?

Should they have spent one hour solely on black men getting shot by cops, then one hour on solely on black men getting shot by other black men, then one hour solely on cops getting shot by citizens, then one hour solely on citizens of all races shooting other citizens of all races, then one hour solely on... (hopefully) you get my where I am going with this line of questioning.

Or is one hour each focused on each topic not enough? Or is one day each focused on each topic not enough? Do you honestly beleive that absolutely NOTHING is being said or done off camera to at least try to address the current situations? Or will President Obama EVER be able to say or do anything that will simultaneously satisfy black people and white people and cops and criminals and all of the 330+ million people he is supposed to be held accountable towards satisfying?

I'm honestly not trying to be flippant - this is a serious question. People nowadays seem to always be negative. ALWAYS. Bitching and moaning ad nauseum through anonymous cyberspace is easy. Coming up with viable solutions is a little bit harder.
 
 
Hotlantan said:
Keeping in mind that the President's involvement was blocking off the afternoon to participate, if you were putting the Town Hall together, what would you have done differently? Just not done anything public at all - ignoring that these problems are even worth acknowledging to never speak on just like Donald and the RNC and quite frankly also Hillary and the DNC?
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Where do I start? If I was President of the United States? If that's the question then I would be dead by now. I would do REAL work. Cut down foreign aid significantly, build infrastructure, reparations, yea I would be dead if that was your question. But Obama could go to Philando Castile or Alton Sterling's funeral or call out that bullshit bill in North Carolina about body cams. Some shit I know he ain't gonna do.

Hotlantan said:
Should they have spent one hour solely on black men getting shot by cops, then one hour on solely on black men getting shot by other black men, then one hour solely on cops getting shot by citizens, then one hour solely on citizens of all races shooting other citizens of all races, then one hour solely on... (hopefully) you get my where I am going with this line of questioning.
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Yea i get where your going and to me that is bull fucking shit. When black men shoot other black men,somebody is going to jail or getting shot back. This isn't about any other race getting shot by the cops because they DON'T! Asians don't get killed by cops (They actually want a piece of the action ain't that right Peter Liang), Indians don't get killed by cops, White people gotta work pretty hard to get killed by the police also. This is about black people getting killed by cops/wannabe cops and taking paid leave, getting a gofund me page, and getting away with it. Cut the fucking shit.

Hotlantan said:
Or is one hour each focused on each topic not enough? Or is one day each focused on each topic not enough? Do you honestly beleive that absolutely NOTHING is being said or done off camera to at least try to address the current situations? Or will President Obama EVER be able to say or do anything that will simultaneously satisfy black people and white people and cops and criminals and all of the 330+ million people he is supposed to be held accountable towards satisfying?
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Our solutions don't need to be televised. You have to talk about these topics behind closed doors every fucking day. I believe absolutely that things are being done off cam to address the situation and that's what counts. President Obama will NEVER satisfy white alot of white people and their satisfaction is not my concern. He ALWAYS looks out for the LGBT community but still talks preachy and down to black people.



Hotlantan said:
I'm honestly not trying to be flippant - this is a serious question. People nowadays seem to always be negative. ALWAYS. Bitching and moaning ad nauseum through anonymous cyberspace is easy. Coming up with viable solutions is a little bit harder.
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People are negative because shit is fucked up. FUCKED UP!!! The solutions ain't that fucking hard, following through is.
 
ansatsusha_gouki said:
Roland Martin said last night,it was a waste of time.When I saw they was going to have the mother of Michael Slager and that Baltimore mother,who beat up her son,I knew it was going to be bullshit




It starts at the 6:36 mark
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Black Lives Matter, sure...
But we gonna put the wives and mothers of these white cops on right after you.
 
http://deadline.com/2016/07/barack-...other-the-big-bang-theory-abc-cbs-1201787238/

Obama-ABC Town Hall Ratings OK, But ‘Big Brother’ Wins Night In Demo

With news of the fatal attack in Nice unfolding in real time and controversy over promises the daughter of Eric Garner says ABC News made her about asking a question, the network’s The President And The People: Race In America (1.0/4) felt like both old news and breaking news simultaneously last night.

As cable news covered events in France, the one-hour pre-taped commercial-free special, with President Barack Obama was a ratings middleweight for ABC. Drawing 5.76 million viewers, the David Muir hosted town hall, which was also shown on ESPN and Freeform, certainly did better than when the President was on CNN back on January 7 for a Guns In America town hall. That Anderson Cooper question and answer pulled in 2.4 million total viewers. And the convo with the Commander-in-Chief was up a tenth from what a new BattleBots had in the slot last week. However, the ABC town hall was easily topped in the demo and in total viewers (7.20 million) by a The Big Bang Theory (1.5/7) repeat at 8PM – leaving CBS to win the slot.

Overall, CBS won primetime with a 1.3/4 rating among adults 18-49 and 5.52 million viewers. The House of Moonves’ only original of the night was Big Brother (1.9/7) at 9 PM. The highest rated show of the night, the reality competition show bopped up 6% in the demo from last week’s early number and even with the adjusted final results. ABC was second among the Big 4 and the CW last night with a 0.9/4 and 4.43 million viewers. The Disney owned net’s Greatest Hits (0.9/4) was even with the final numbers of its July 7 show.

Bones (0.8/3) was down a tenth from its last original for Fox while Home Free(0.5/2) was even with last week. The CW’s Beauty and the Beast (0.2/1) also matched its July 7 show. NBC’s Spartan: Ultimate Challenge (0.9/4) was also the same as last week but Aquarius (0.5/2) rose 25% in among the 18-49s to hit a Season 2 high and the best the show has done since June 25 last year.

To bookend, here is ABC News’ statement about Erica Garner’s claims that she was promised an opportunity to ask the President a question and denied that opportunity yesterday:

“We took an extra 30 minutes to get to as many people as we could during the town hall. The President spoke to several people after the event ended, including at length with Erica Garner.”
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Tha Great Muta said:
Yea i get where your going and to me that is bull fucking shit. When black men shoot other black men,somebody is going to jail or getting shot back. This isn't about any other race getting shot by the cops because they DON'T! Asians don't get killed by cops (They actually want a piece of the action ain't that right Peter Liang), Indians don't get killed by cops, White people gotta work pretty hard to get killed by the police also. This is about black people getting killed by cops/wannabe cops and taking paid leave, getting a gofund me page, and getting away with it. Cut the fucking shit.
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Indian's from India or Native American's? Native American issues mirror black community issues almost exactly. They have police brutality, and cases of their men and kids being killed also. Just like with black folks though, getting the media to cover it is very difficult. I wouldn't have known if it weren't for social media.
 
It was a made for TV event. You don't think they knew the questions beforehand?

They knew what she was going to ask, so they weren't going to let her ask it. It made sense, since the show wasn't necessarily for her individual case.

and she should already know the answer to her question about what the justice departments going to do...nothing
 
playahaitian said:
http://deadline.com/2016/07/barack-...other-the-big-bang-theory-abc-cbs-1201787238/


To bookend, here is ABC News’ statement about Erica Garner’s claims that she was promised an opportunity to ask the President a question and denied that opportunity yesterday:

“We took an extra 30 minutes to get to as many people as we could during the town hall. The President spoke to several people after the event ended, including at length with Erica Garner.”
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Extra 30 minutes??

Done bullshit is this pretty sure everyone present knew she was to be there and knew she had a question since she was an invited guest.
 
Camille said:
Indian's from India or Native American's? Native American issues mirror black community issues almost exactly. They have police brutality, and cases of their men and kids being killed also. Just like with black folks though, getting the media to cover it is very difficult. I wouldn't have known if it weren't for social media.
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Indians from India. And we don't need the media to cover it unless we have our own media outlet. BTW the original people here that Columbus saw were closer to black than most people want to admit.
 
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Records show increased earnings for officer involved in Garner death
By Sally Goldenberg
09/12/16 02:17 PM EDT
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Police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who restrained Eric Garner in a chokehold shortly before Garner died on Staten Island in 2014, has steadily increased his earnings — including a sharp jump in overtime pay — in the two years since he was placed on modified duty.

Pantaleo earned $119,996 in fiscal year 2016, which includes earnings between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016. His base pay was $78,026 and he earned $23,220 in overtime, according to a review of payroll records. He received an additional $12,853 in unspecified pay, which could include retroactive pay or bonuses.

Pantaleo's earnings in 2016 represent a 35 percent increase in overtime pay, and a 14 percent overall increase from the previous fiscal year, which began shortly before Garner's death on July 17, 2014.

In that 12-month period, ending June 30, 2015, Pantaleo earned $105,061, with $76,488 base pay, $17,109 in overtime and $11,673 in additional earnings, records show.

In fiscal year 2014, which was completed before Garner's death and Pantaleo's subsequent reassignment, he made $99,915, which included $17,189 in overtime.
Pantaleo was seen on video helping wrestle Garner to the ground after Garner, who was unarmed, refused to be arrested for allegedly selling loose cigarettes outside a convenience store. The city's medical examiner later determined the "choke hold" contributed to Garner's death.
Pantaleo was stripped of his gun and badge after Garner's death and placed on modified assignment, pending an investigation by the department. A Staten Island grand jury declined to indict him in December of 2014.
Police commissioner Bill Bratton said in July that the department's own investigation into Pantaleo's actions is "for all practical purposes," completed, but the department is awaiting the outcome of a federal investigation.
In April, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration abruptly stopped disclosing information on disciplinary cases within the police department, reversing four decades of precedent.
The payroll records suggest that, as of July, Pantaleo had not yet received any disciplinary action from the department that affected his earnings.
Asked about Pantaleo's overtime earnings, NYPD spokesman John Grimpel wrote in an email, "At times, officers are required to work beyond their scheduled tour of duty. This includes officers on modified assignment."
A spokesman for de Blasio declined to comment.
POLITICO reviewed the payroll records following a recent outcry from police reform activists, elected officials and Garner's family calling for the city to release Pantaleo's disciplinary records.
The mayor has said he would prefer to release disciplinary records of police officers, but said he is bound by state law. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has questioned that explanation, saying the mayor was using the law as a "scapegoat."
 
Obama: Americans Should Not Expect Police to Solve Social Ills

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U.S. President Barack Obama meets members of the audience, including Cameron Sterling (R), son of Alton Sterling who was shot and killed by white police officers in Baton Rouge, after taking part in a televised town hall about trust and safety in our comm



U.S. President Barack Obama says the country is expecting too much from police, including answering society's problems. He made the comments Thursday night at a town hall meeting in a Washington theater to discuss the recent spate of racial tensions and police violence that have become a defining mark of his presidency.

He was strongly confronted on issues of racial tensions and police violence several times during the meeting.

Obama has been a reluctant arbiter on race relations, but the country's first African American president is being forced into the position after last week's shootings of black men at point-blank range by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota. Last week also saw the deadly ending in Dallas, Texas, of a peaceful demonstration protesting police violence when a black man with sniper precision killed five police officers and wounded several others.

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican who has called Black Lives Matter protesters "hypocrites" after the Dallas shooting, called on the president to do more to support police, including lighting up the White House with blue lights, a reference to blue police uniforms.

In response, Obama said he has been "unequivocal in condemning any rhetoric directed at police officers" and said if Patrick "missed" those messages, the president would be "happy" to send them to him.

The meeting, broadcast on national television, featured appearances by many of the faces of the people affected by last week's fatal confrontations with police.

The site of the meeting was significant. It was held in a theater on Washington D.C.'s 14th street corridor, which was the center of racially fueled rioting in 1968; a passionate reaction to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

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FILE - Law enforcement officer salute Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. Lorne Ahrens before his funeral service at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, July 13, 2016.



Victims' families

Another tense encounter was with the daughter of Eric Garner, who was killed last year by police in New York, where he could be heard saying "I can't breathe" as officers wrestled him to the ground. Garner's daughter was screaming near the end of the show after being denied a chance to ask Obama a question. However, she met privately with the president after the show.

Other speakers were gentler. The mother of a Baltimore police officer said her son insists on going out and doing his job even though his safety was in question during last year's Baltimore riots. "How are you supposed to feel?" she asked. "It just seemed like nobody was out there to protect him."

Another mother also spoke: a Baltimore mother who became "internet famous" after a video of her dragging her son out of the Baltimore riots went viral. Toya Graham, whose son stood beside her sporting a natty bow tie, said, "It is so hard to keep them out of harm's way" while trying to hold down a job as a single mother. "I have to work . . . . what can I do?"

Diamond Reynolds, whose video of the aftermath of her boyfriend's fatal shooting by a Minneapolis officer also went viral, appeared by videolink from Minneapolis, having attended her boyfriend's funeral earlier in the day. "When I think about my daughter's future, I'm scared for her," she said. "My question is, how do we as a nation stop what has happened to my family and all the other victims across the world?"

Obama provided no hard and fast answers, but he talked about the importance of building trust in the police force, police involvement in the community, and better resources for communities stressed by poverty, racial tensions, and crime. He also called for fairness in dealing with police officers, as resentment against law enforcement officers has given rise to new violence.

"We expect police to solve a whole range of societal problems that we ourselves have neglected," Obama said. "We have communities without jobs, with substandard schools, where the drug trade is so often considered the only way to make money. Communities that are inundated with guns. Where there's a lack of mental health services or drug treatment services. Then, we say to the police, go deal with that."

Obama said in such cases, it is no wonder police feel unsupported when violence breaks out. He talked about initiatives to improve life for at-risk youths - often a term that is a euphemism used to describe young black men, whose age, race and gender can play a significant role in the way they are treated.

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President Obama talks to reporters after a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, July 13, 2016, about community policing and criminal justice.



Personal experience

President Obama noted that, like most young black men, he had times in his youth when he was aware other people perceived him as dangerous. He said he noticed as he was growing up that people would lock their car doors as he crossed the street.

"I sense that what's true for me is true for a lot of African American men: there's a greater presumption of dangerousness that arises from the social and cultural perceptions that have been fed to folks for a long time." He said people of all races must be aware of their assumptions about one another. "That has to be reflected in how we talk about these issues going forward," he said.

Obama also noted the very real consequences being part of the "at-risk" demographic has on young male minorities. "The single greatest cause of death for young black men between [ages] 18 and 35 is homicide, and that's crazy," he said. He said the burden of changing that situation cannot lie on police alone.

"It is going to require investments in those communities," he said. "It is going to require making sure the schools work, having after-school programs. And it is going to require us to look at things like guns and that is tough." He went on to describe how knowing there are guns "washing around" in the community can make a police officer more cautious and a confrontation more likely.

Obama offered no specific solutions, nor did he make any promises. But he sounded a note of hope - in fact, making a joke about it, he called himself "Mr. Hope." He called on all Americans watching to take part in the care of the next generation of Americans, regardless of individual color. "We have an obligation to each and every one of them," he said. "These are our kids and we want an America where they can feel safe."


http://www.voanews.com/a/obama-appears-at-town-hall-on-race-police-gun-violence/3419417.html
 

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