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Obama vows action

President Barack Obama made a forceful pledge on Monday to use his last two years in office to address the "simmering distrust" between police and minority communities as he requested $263 million for the federal response to the civil rights upheaval triggered in Ferguson, Missouri.

 Obama in my opinion is not doing a good job with addressing these situations. After the verdict was released, Obama instantly failed. First he appeared on television moments after the decision was announced : there have been other more pressing issues in which he chose to wait before deliberating. If he wanted to say anything it should have been in passing. Second, he unknowingly told the people to get up and let themselves be heard. "Protest peacefully," He knew exactly what was about to happen.

 If he wanted to appear on television he should have said, "people, go home. This is a nation built on laws. You may or may not agree with those laws but they're in place. If you have an issue with anything, get 100,000 signatures submitted and we'll push it through to congress where the law will once again prevail."

 This is of course difficult to expect from a president that has shown time and time again that he will use executive order to make his agenda go through without Congressional permission. 

 If the congress denies him this budget, he'll just push it through himself. On the one hand I'm definitely disappointed at how poorly the president is handling this and many other situations, but on the other hand, I think we do need to have video evidence clearly depicting who's right and who's wrong.

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