Anonymous Coward User ID: 72211224 United States 12/18/2016 02:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Obama Appointment Of Debo Adegbile Seen As ‘Kick in Teeth to Cops’ Obama’s decision to appoint Debo Adegbile, a top lawyer for cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal whose nomination to the Justice Department was rejected by the Senate in 2014, to a federal commission was met with harsh criticism from Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) and a top official at the nation’s largest police union, who called it a “kick in the teeth to the cops.” The Obama administration announced on Thursday that it was nominating Adegbile for a six-year term on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Unlike its appointment of Adegbile in 2014 to chair the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, this nomination does not require approval from the Senate. [ link to freebeacon.com] |