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President Barack Obama, right, speaks during his meeting with elected officials, law enforcement officials and community and faith leaders in the Old Executive Office Building on the White House Complex in Washington, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Obama said that in the wake of the shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old man in Ferguson, Missouri, he wants to make sure to build better trust between police and the communities they serve. Also at the meeting are New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and Charles Ramsey, center, Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Dept. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

TOM DELAY: Forget the race-baiting, let’s debate the real meaning of Ferguson

By Tom DeLay

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Abortion biggest killer of African-Americans

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on issues raised by Ferguson by Paul Tong/Tribune Content Agency

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Ferguson riots failures of racial sensitivity, police militarization

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Benjamin Carr, relative of Eric Garner, leaves the district attorney's office after a grand jury's decision not to indict a New York police officer involved in the death of Garner, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, in the Staten Island borough of New York. A video shot by an onlooker and widely viewed on the Internet showed the 43-year-old Garner telling a group of police officers to leave him alone as they tried to arrest him. The city medical examiner ruled Garner's death a homicide and found that a chokehold contributed to it. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Eric Garner chokehold death: N.Y. officer won’t face charges

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks during the 2014 White House Tribal Nations Conference, at the Capital Hilton in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. The president spoke about a grant jury that cleared a white New York City Police officer in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. The decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo threatened to add to the tensions that have simmered in the city since the July 17 death of Eric Garner. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: Eric Garner decision example of disconnect between minorities, law enforcement

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

East High School students march in a protest against the Ferguson, Missouri grand jury decision, along a busy street in front of the state Capitol in Denver, Wednesday Dec. 3, 2014. Authorities said four Denver police officers were hit by a car while watching the high school students protest. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Four Denver cops on bikes struck by car during Ferguson protest

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

"I pray that our neighbors in Missouri will take this chance to help change us for the better by choosing to overcome wrong with right, evil with good and hate with love," writes Christy Stutzman. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

CHRISTY STUTZMAN: Prayer for Ferguson, Mo.

By Christy Stutzman

President Barack Obama, center, speaks during his meeting with elected officials, law enforcement officials and community and faith leaders in the Old Executive Office Building on the White House Complex in Washington, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Obama said that in the wake of the shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old man in Ferguson, Missouri, he wants to make sure to build better trust between police and the communities they serve.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Ferguson police weren’t invited by Obama to White House meeting on policing issues

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Police arrest protester Derrick Robinson, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014, in St. Louis. Protesters and police clashed following an NFL football game between the St. Louis Rams and the Oakland Raiders as protests continued following a grand jury's decision not to indict a Ferguson police officer in the shooting death of Michael Brown. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Laurie Skrivan)

Obama calls for police body cameras, curbs on military equipment

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

People walk away from a storage facility on fire after the announcement of the grand jury decision Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. A grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting sparked sometimes violent protests. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

TAMMY BRUCE: Ferguson and the useful application of mayhem

By Tammy Bruce

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, center, sits next to Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, left, and U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates, right, while meeting with law enforcement and community leaders for a roundtable discussion at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014, in Atlanta. President Barack Obama instructed Holder to set up regional meetings on building trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve in the wake of clashes between protesters and police in Ferguson, Missouri. The Atlanta event Monday is the first one. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Eric Holder announces plan to target racial profiling

By Kate Brumback - Associated Press

Raynard Jackson deplores rap glorifying "thug life and prison culture." Above: Michael Brown in video images from convenience store police say the teen robbed on night he was fatally shot. (AP Photo/Ferguson Police Department)

Thug culture is a menace to ourselves

By Raynard Jackson

DEBORAH SIMMONS: Racial differences are good, good character even better

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

Illustration on Eric Holder's exacerbation of problems in Ferguson, Mo. by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

CARL ROWAN: Michael Brown witness more heroic than Eric Holder

By Carl Rowan Jr.

Let’s get something straight: Not all race agitators are black. The people agitating for higher mini

The Washington Times

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state who is widely view to be the frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic nomination, held her silence for weeks after the August shooting. When she finally spoke, she did so mostly in generalities, suggesting that in America "we are better than that." She also lamented the "inequities that persist in our justice system," but stopped short of offering specific policy prescriptions. (Associated Press)

Ferguson fallout: Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, other 2016 hopefuls sidestep crisis, leave it to Obama

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

Demonstrators protest against the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, during a rally at the Department of Justice in Washington, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. A grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, declined to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Brown, an unarmed black man. Protesters across the U.S. have walked off their jobs or away from classes in support of the Ferguson protesters. Monday's walkouts stretched from New York to San Francisco, and included Chicago and Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

D.C. police handling of Ferguson protesters a far cry from past demonstrations

By Matthew Cella - The Washington Times