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Originally Posted by Dusty
The danger is that the POTUS gets involved in such a manner as to nail down the notion to everyone who hasn't clapped his hands over his eyes that he has taken sides in the racial issue...
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Showing a bit of empathy to the plight of the family and towards an on-going issue of national concern (youth shootings), and then letting the legal system run its course amidst all the politically polarized foofarah a situation like this brings about, is "taking sides"...
And...if he had said nothing...
However, I do agree that a major problem here that only tends to make matters perceptually worse is with this POTUS' quixotic "lead by absentia" style.
And so it goes...
Richard 
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