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Attorney General Eric Holder said he thought was a good thing that NBA players were protesting the death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner by wearing I Cant Breathe T-shirts during the warm-ups before games.
For them to get out there and to express in that way a social conscience, I think goes back to maybe people that these guys dont even know or my son has a vague awareness of, to Jackie Robinson, who is seen as not only a great athlete, but as an involved, thinking, caring black man, Holder told the Chicago Sun-Times.
And to have LeBron [James], Derrick Rose and others who wore those I Cant Breathe shirts, that shows a level of involvement. It shows a depth to them beyond just being great ballplayers.
Holder also said that, for many people, including his own teenage son, top athletes were more important than political figures.
NBA stars began wearing the shirts after a grand jury opted against indicting police officers who put Garner, an unarmed black man, into a chokehold as they were attempting to arrest him. The decision coupled with a grand jurys decision not to indict a Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager have sparked mass protests around the country.
Holder has pledged a federal civil rights investigation.
His comments expanded on those of President Obama, who told ESPN Radio last week that he saw athletes expressions of political views as important.
Obama noted the legacy of athletes like Muhammad Ali, Bill Russell and Arthur Ashe, who "spoke out on issues that matter at pretty critical times."
"They're citizens as well as entertainers, and they've got a voice that is legitimate," Obama said.
Holder said in the article published Monday he believed there was just no need for police departments to continue using chokeholds during arrests.
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Does one-party rule exist in Connecticut? Some, including Democrat state Sen. Beth Bye of West Hartford, say it does not. As someone who has witnessed the results of Democrat majority rule over the past four years, I respectfully disagree.
With the Democrats controlling the General Assembly and the governor's seat, we have seen one-sided policy decisions pushed into law and Republican alternatives pushed aside. As a result, Connecticut has not only been led down a path that heads straight toward "permanent fiscal crisis" in the words of the governor's budget director our state has also lost sight of many valid policy solutions.
It is true that about 80 percent of the time, Republicans and Democrats vote similarly on bills that make it to the floor of the Senate. This number is accurate, but it is also misleading. Here's why:
This percentage omits the hundreds of Republican proposals that Democrats never call for a vote to avoid taking a stand on difficult issues.
This percentage doesn't tell us how many Republican bills are killed while in the committee stage of the legislative review process.
This percentage does not include the 259 Republican amendments that have been rejected by the majority at a rate of 99 percent over the past four years.
This percentage also fails to acknowledge what happens when a Republican idea does manage to garner Democrat support it gets taken over by Democrats who slap their own names on what was once a Republican amendment.
In the current system, the bills that make it to the floor of the Senate are usually bills that are sensible updates to the law, so we vote similarly most of the time. The ideas that differ vastly from the majority are the ones that never make it that far.
The high percentage of on-the-floor agreements also fails to shed light on the stark differences in policy between Republicans and Democrats represented by the remaining 20 percent. What does that 20 percent include?
Republican votes against the Democratic majority when the governor wanted to implement the largest tax increase in state history.
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