Baltimore City Councilman Slams Obama For Calling Rioters `Thugs

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Baltimore City Councilman Slams Obama For Calling Rioters ‘Thugs’: ‘Just
Call Them N******’
April 29, 2015 7:31 AM
Filed Under: Carl Stokes, President Obama Baltimore riots
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BALTIMORE (CBSDC/AP) — A Baltimore city councilman slammed
those who have called rioters “thugs,” including
President Barack Obama , saying they might as well have called
them “n*******.”
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Carl Stokes made the comments during an interview with CNN
Tuesday afternoon after Erin Burnett asked him if thugs was the right
word to call the violent protesters.
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“No, of course it’s not the right word to call our children thugs. These
are children who have been set aside, marginalized, who have not
been engaged by us. No, we don’t have to call them thugs,” he said.
Stokes continued: “So calling them thugs, just call them n*******, just
call them n******. No, we don’t have to call them by names such as
that. We don’t have to do that. That is exactly what we have set them
to. … You wouldn’t call your child a thug if they should do something
that would not be what you would expect them to do.”
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Stokes also said during his interview with CNN that the real residents
of Baltimore are taking back their city.
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“I know that was a terrible scene we saw [Monday] night and a little
bit on Saturday, but the greater majority – a few hundred people
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Baltimore,’” he said. “And they’re showing just who we are and why
we’re standing up for justice. Not only for Freddie Gray, but all of the
Freddie Grays who have been killed and brutalized in Baltimore.”
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conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday,
saying those who stole from businesses and burned buildings and
cars should be treated as criminals. Obama said they distracted from
days of peaceful protests focused on legitimate concerns “over the
possibility that our laws were not applied evenly in the case of
Mr. Gray and that accountability needs to exist.”
“There’s no excuse for the kind of violence that we saw
yesterday,” Obama said. “It is counterproductive. When individuals
get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they’re not
protesting, they’re not making a statement, they’re stealing.”
But he also criticized a society that doesn’t do enough to uplift poor
minority communities. He said the solution to deep­seeded problems
that spur violence include early education, criminal justice reform and
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job training, while suggesting that kind of a response is out of reach
with a Republican Congress . “I’m under no illusion that out of this
Congress we’re going to get massive investments in urban
communities,” Obama said.
“It’s too easy to ignore those problems or to treat them just as a law­
and­order issue as opposed to a broader social issue,” Obama said.
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Gray is the latest black man to die at the hands of police, prompting
protests and calls for criminal justice reform. Some have criticized
America’s first black president for not speaking out forcefully enough
as he tries to avoid criticism of law enforcement, and he responded
by calling the deaths “a slow­rolling crisis.”
“We have seen too many instances of what appears to be police
officers interacting with individuals, primarily African­American, often
poor, in ways that raise troubling questions. It comes up, it seems
like, once a week now,” Obama said. He said although such cases
aren’t unprecedented, there’s new awareness as a result of cameras
and social media. “We shouldn’t pretend that it’s new.”
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Gray died of a spinal cord injury after being arrested.
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