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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
My spin is this...it's grossly irresponsible for any president, of any party, to speak this way until the investigations are complete. But Obama is above all that, he doesn't have to wait for silly things like facts to come in, which is why he could say that the Cambridge police acted stupidly (before he knew what had taken place), when what they did was put themselves potentially at risk to protect homeowners in that area.
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What Obama said was
"I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home, and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately."
Not sure how any rational person could disagree with that.