{"id":38667,"date":"2014-12-01T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38667"},"modified":"2014-12-01T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:08:10","slug":"obama-plans-meetings-on-ferguson-unrest-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38667","title":{"rendered":"Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/01\/us\/politics\/obama-plans-meetings-on-ferguson-unrest-at-the-white-house.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2014-11-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliehdavis\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Julie Hirschfeld Davis<\/strong><\/a>, White House Reporter<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/25\/us\/ferguson-darren-wilson-shooting-michael-brown-grand-jury.html\" target=\"_blank\">grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama, who has labored to strike the right balance in reacting to the crisis, has not scheduled a trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ferguson,_Missouri\" target=\"_blank\">Ferguson<\/a> despite days of speculation about a presidential visit there.<\/p>\n<p>But he will gather his cabinet on Monday to discuss the results of a review of federal programs that provide military-style equipment to state and local law enforcement agencies. The initiatives were called into question in August, after the Ferguson police responded with riot gear and assault-style weapons to protests in the aftermath of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown\" target=\"_blank\">shooting of Michael Brown, the teenager, by Officer Darren Wilson<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The president has faced a challenge in calibrating his response to the situation in Ferguson, working to balance the task of urging calm and unity with his desire, as America\u2019s first black president, to acknowledge racial wounds \u2014 all while being careful not to interfere in the investigation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/01\/us\/politics\/obama-plans-meetings-on-ferguson-unrest-at-the-white-house.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House The New York Times 2014-11-30 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter WASHINGTON \u2014 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[18514,18592,17765,18593,18591,17764,17766,773,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-38667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-darren-wilson","tag-davis","tag-ferguson","tag-julie-davis","tag-julie-h","tag-julie-hirschfeld-davis","tag-michael-brown","tag-missouri","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}