Obama à Ferguson? Les mots suffisent-ils?

L'indignation et la violence qui se manifestent depuis qu'on sait qu'il n'y aura pas d'accusations portées contre le policier Wilson ne peuvent atténuées par un discours. Le président américain a relativement peu d'options pour intervenir dans ce dossier, surtout si on considère qu'il y a déjà une enquête fédérale. Pourquoi ne pas se rendre à Ferguson maintenant?

 "There is one thing Obama isn’t doing that could make a big difference: Visit Ferguson. Even if he wanted to, it would be a huge logistical undertaking, not to mention a big personal and political risk.

But that’s the one thing some Ferguson community leaders say he needs to do, to make sure their residents’ voices are truly heard. “President Obama needs to visit the people who elected him,” said Renita Lamkin, pastor of St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Charles, Missouri, one of the pastors who has tried to keep the peace in past Ferguson demonstrations. “The community is grieving. We have need for our leader to console and encourage.”

Obama has pointedly dodged questions about whether he’ll actually go, but it can’t be lost on him that Holder — the nation’s first African American attorney general — drew praise for his own visit to Ferguson in the summer, bonding with local community residents as he talked of his own struggles with the police and urged constructive change.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/more-than-words-113184.html?hp=c2_3