Just curious, what have Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders said about Ferguson.

[MoonRiver]

I know about Warren's one tweet, but haven't heard anything else.

[Louisiana1976]

1. I haven't even heard about Warren's tweet.

[MoonRiver]

2. She tweeted "This is America not a war zone."

[arcane1]

3. Sanders had this to say in an interview:

“When you see the kind of force that’s been used in Ferguson, it really does make it appear that the police department there is an occupying army in a hostile territory and that is absolutely not what we want to see in the United States”


http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/the-week-in-review-082314

[MoonRiver]

5. Thanks I had not read that

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. Difference is...Hillary is not a public person at the moment.....

they are both working for the people....

there is the difference too!

[lsewpershad]

6. Think

maybe she does not want to work for "the people" and that is why she chooses to remain silent?

[FrodosPet]

7. O’Malley says events in Missouri show need for healing

At least SOMEONE is speaking up.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/while-in-new-hampshire-omalley-says-events-in-missouri-show-need-for-healing/2014/08/17/1e388f32-2659-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

During an appearance at a Democratic picnic in New Hampshire on Sunday, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) said the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., highlights divisions in the country that will require urgent “work of the heart” to heal.

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Speaking of the events in Ferguson, where an unarmed black teenager was shot to death last week by a white police officer, prompting days of protests, O’Malley said: “If nothing else, it should us remind us all of the urgent work we still have to do as a nation.”

“There are gulfs and gaps and divisions and fears that separate us from one another in places throughout our country,” O’Malley said. “ It is really in healing, in bringing people together, in strengthening the connections that help us to understand that in fact we're all in this together, that we need each other. That’s really the urgent work that’s required at this time in our country.”

O’Malley said that is “not work that we can delegate to government. … This is the work of every American citizen. It’s work of the heart that’s actually going to turn around our country and give us better days ahead.”

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[MannyGoldstein]

8. She said more than that, no?

Her entire tweet was:

This is America, not a war zone. The people of #Ferguson just want answers. We all want answers.
6:04 AM - 14 Aug 2014

Also, this:

As the Mass. senator toured the VA Mobile Vet Center in Framingham, Sacchetti asked her a number of questions, starting with the situation in Ferguson, Missouri.

"Clearly it was a terrible thing that happened here. And then the Ferguson police badly overreacted," she said.

When asked about the Governor Jay Nixon's response to the incident, Warren said, "You know I think the governor did the right thing when he stepped in. And I think he tried to put somebody in charge who would try to bring peace to the situation."

She went on to say, "It took him a while to step in though, he's certainly getting some criticism for that. And rightly so. Look it took him a while to step in when it was perfectly clear that the local police had been out of line, and way overstepped and have created a volatile situation that was dangerous. And so in that sense, yeah the governor should have, should have acted earlier."