Germany: The President’s Day

President Barack Obama arrives at the summit of G7 nations on June 7, 2015 in Kruen, Germany. In the course of the two-day summit G7 leaders are scheduled to discuss global economic and security issues, as well as pressing global health-related issues, including antibiotics-resistant bacteria and Ebola

President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speak at the summit of G7 nations at Schloss Elmau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

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President Barack Obama is welcomed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer at the summit of G7 nations

President Barack Obama enjoys a non-alcoholic weissbier

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Justin Huggler: Why is Barack Obama drinking beer at 11am?

Angela Merkel welcomed Barack Obama to the G7 summit with a traditional Bavarian breakfast on Sunday – complete with a half-litre of beer.But before he could get down to business, Mrs Merkel treated him to a full Bavarian breakfast of white sausages, pretzels and foaming lager. Eleven in the morning might be considered a little early for a beer in some parts of the world, but in Bavaria breakfast is not complete without a weissbier, as the local wheat beer is called.

It’s not quite as hard-drinking as it sounds: Bavarians don’t down a quick pint before heading to the office every morning. It originates in Frühschoppen – a local tradition of meeting for a drink late in the morning on Sundays and holidays. According to Bavarian custom, the sausages cannot be eaten after 12 noon, because no preservatives are used and they are made fresh every day. Therefore those who wish to wash their sausages down with a beer must get supping before that time. The local saying is that the sausages must not be allowed to hear the church bells chime noon.

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen Harper speak with President Barack Obama at an evening concert

resident Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel sit down for a working dinner at the summit of G7 nations

(Clockwise from L) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and President of the European Council Donald Tusk sit down for a working dinner

Black People Are Not Safe Around Cops. There Is Something Foul In America

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David Mack: Texas Police Officer Suspended After Pulling Weapon On Teens During Pool Party

The lies

Officers were called to the a local community pool around 7:15 p.m. local time to respond to a “disturbance involving multiple juveniles at the location, who do not live in the area or have permission to be there, refusing to leave,” the McKinney Police Department said in a post on its Facebook page. Other calls also advised that the teens were “actively fighting,” police said. “First responding officers encountered a large crowd that refused to comply with police commands. Nine additional units responded to the scene. Officers were eventually able to gain control of the situation,” police said.

Then the truth emerged

However, video later emerged of one officer aggressively handcuffing and detaining teens who described themselves as bystanders, before wrestling a girl in a bathing suit to the ground and drawing his weapon on others who came to her aid. Brooks, the 15-year-old who shot the YouTube video, told BuzzFeed News many students had arrived at the end-of-school celebration at the pool on guest passes. “I think a bunch of white parents were angry that a bunch of black kids who don’t live in the neighborhood were in the pool,” said Brooks, who is white. Grace Stone, a white 14-year-old, told BuzzFeed News that when she and her friends objected to the racist comments about public housing an adult woman then became violent. When police arrived on scene, teens began fleeing. That’s when Brooks began his recording. “Everyone who was getting put on the ground was black, Mexican, Arabic,” he said. “[The cop] didn’t even look at me. It was kind of like I was invisible.”

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McKinney, Texas. 7/6/15. There were "too many black" kids at a party. Officers arrive. America. [TW] pic.twitter.com/jiE3fLW5I7

— deray (@deray) June 7, 2015

Texas Police Officer Suspended After Pulling Weapon On Teens During Pool Party http://t.co/LK0F3UzDXe pic.twitter.com/4tTsOYj9ey

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) June 7, 2015

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https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/607607624792571904

When the cop grabbed the girl, swung her around ny her braids & her friends ran up to help her, THAT COP PULLED HIS GUN ON THE BOYS.

— Reagan Gomez (@ReaganGomez) June 7, 2015

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https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/607603255145676800

https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/607603375253757952

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The white parents and white people who do this to Black children, who do this to Black people – picking up the phone and calling the cops because a Black person or Black people are in the neighborhood. Who look at a Black body and see a threat instead of a child or a human being, YOU are complicit. If the cop had killed a child today, YOU are complicit. Shame on YOU.

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https://twitter.com/WillBrianna/status/607604162684186624

https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/607607705981718528

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https://twitter.com/sherifffruitfly/status/607603720512106496

FYI, the White people who can never find anything wrong with police brutality aimed at Black people want police to do exactly that.

— Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) June 7, 2015

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.@sherifffruitfly Yup. Police harass and attack black people because too damn many white people want them to.

— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 7, 2015

https://twitter.com/GlennF/status/607603758621540352

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Blackness isn't criminal.

Please teach your children this important lesson, so maybe our great-grandchildren stand a chance.

— Nah, for real, Im FJ (@FeministaJones) June 7, 2015

Maybe people will remember this video the next time they wanna ask a Black girl/woman why she didn't just call the police when...

— Nah, for real, Im FJ (@FeministaJones) June 7, 2015

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https://twitter.com/DeeRene_/status/607590020069924864

Non-Black parents cannot afford to be reactive or passive about race.

You MUST teach your children that Blackness isn't a crime. EARLY.

— Nah, for real, Im FJ (@FeministaJones) June 7, 2015

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"Why did you run?!"

"Well, officer, you barrel rolled in here like it was Dessert Storm, and I'm human, so I was scared."

— Genie Lauren (@MoreAndAgain) June 7, 2015

Per @buzzfeednews, the white 15 YO who shot the video says the incident began when white adults denigrated black kids who came to the party

— Emo Desperado (@JoyAnnReid) June 7, 2015

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The adults who allegedly told these kids they don’t belong are as much of the problem as the cop who assaulted them. http://t.co/19OSVOiXMS

— Jamil Smith جميل كريم (@JamilSmith) June 7, 2015

Are we still doing this in 2015? "Well my loved ones wouldn't be foolish enough to..." to what? Go to a pool party & expect 2 leave alive?

— Reagan Gomez (@ReaganGomez) June 7, 2015

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https://twitter.com/rieVAMPED/status/607592796166471681

https://twitter.com/Rex4711/status/607579797175336961

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I shouldn’t be relieved that this ended in “just” a body slam to a child that’s probably less than 100lbs, and not in gunfire.

— fat ass kelly price. (@indiaEss) June 7, 2015

McKinney Police Department Internal Affairs
2200 Taylor Burke Drive
McKinney, TX 75071
ia@mckinneytexas.org

— ME (@tweetmsskelt) June 7, 2015

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A good cop would have checked that bad cop for his conduct and immediately stopped the harassment. Anything less makes you one of them.

— Boo Radley (@ClauGasol) June 7, 2015

Places black children can't go:
1.) the park
2.) a pool party
3.) to their father's house
4.) to the store
5.) home
6.) to sleep

— Indigo (@indigo_b) June 7, 2015

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The more I think about it, while America en masse has not experienced war on home turf, Black people can't say the same at all.

— Genie Lauren (@MoreAndAgain) June 7, 2015

Our churches have been bombed. Our neighborhoods have gone up in flames, across this country.

— Genie Lauren (@MoreAndAgain) June 7, 2015

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https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/607579502894444544

https://twitter.com/fivefifths/status/607575102641815552

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IF YOU ARE THREATENED BY EVERY FUCKING THING, DON'T BE A COP OR IN ANY POSITION OF AUTHORITY

— you (@MissZindzi) June 7, 2015

"Everyone was breaking the law but you got caught!"

A cop said this to a young black boy who he ran after while passing white children.

— 🌺 Cardiac Cutie 🌺 (@HerSoulWrites) June 7, 2015

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1 of those boys is going to say to his mama "All I wanted to do was help her and they almost killed me!" and it will stay with him for life

— Nah, for real, Im FJ (@FeministaJones) June 7, 2015

https://twitter.com/elonjames/status/607616292686819328

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The saddest truth about the #MckinneyTX police brutality incident is GRATITUDE that no CHILD was KILLED. @JoyAnnReid

— 🇺🇸🇭🇹 Only4RM 🇭🇹🇺🇸 (@Only4RM) June 7, 2015

White people think OTT police action vs black kids doing nothing wrong was justified, film at 11 https://t.co/cO4El7D9Bc

— Danielle Blake 🇺🇦 (@abradacabla) June 7, 2015

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Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I refuse to be afraid of children. Tell them to quiet down. Demand to talk to a parent. Be an adult.

— Emo Desperado (@JoyAnnReid) June 7, 2015

That video of the cop assault on black teens in TX illustrates perfectly how easily a racist rogue cop overpowers any calmer fellow officers

— Joe-ish (@60th_Street) June 7, 2015

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and how they do absolutely nothing to stop him. making them complicit in his brutality regardless of their initial handling of the situation

— Joe-ish (@60th_Street) June 7, 2015

the instinct was to protect him, not the children. one cop escalated this entire situation and all the other cops let it happen.

— Joe-ish (@60th_Street) June 7, 2015

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https://twitter.com/dyrbert/status/607579449761005568

https://twitter.com/elonjames/status/607618066911006720

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#FACT: The *reason* given for needing police at the scene is that there were "too many" BLACK kids at the pool. https://t.co/SqAPiAfWdA

— 🇺🇸🇭🇹 Only4RM 🇭🇹🇺🇸 (@Only4RM) June 7, 2015

Just finished a shootout, killing nine vs. swimming while Black. pic.twitter.com/PSWg83aaWw

— Rusty Redenbacher (@rustymk2) June 7, 2015

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Bikers got to text & soothe their nerves after killing 9 ppl. Black kids thrown to the ground for carrying deadly towels.

— The Yellow Bandit (@SimplyCecilia) June 7, 2015

Focus of concern at the 3:11 mark when the officer briefly pulls gun out & points it at people http://t.co/w3M84s2TMF pic.twitter.com/nSrEAU0Ov5

— Z A (@ZANews16) June 7, 2015

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I can't tell you how many Black families tell me they contained their loved ones emergent psychiatric illness for fear of calling the cops.

— Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) June 7, 2015

They'll force a floridly psychotic person into their own car rather than enlist local authorities who they don't trust not to kill them.

— Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) June 7, 2015

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Meanwhile, there are certain White folk who call the cops the minute they see a Black person simply walking down their street.

— Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) June 7, 2015

*TW* In 1964 they were pouring battery acid on us, in 2015 police are called when there's "too many" of us #McKinney pic.twitter.com/CXAPhQzQi6

— Neal Carter he/him (@nealcarter) June 7, 2015

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On This Day: First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at a private memorial service for Dr. Maya Angelou at Wake Forest University’s Wait Chapel in Winston-Salem, N.C., June 7, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

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 Today

All times CEST (+ 6 hours Eastern; + 9 hours Pacific)

6:55 AM: The President arrives in Munich, Germany

10:25: Participates in an event with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Krün

10:55: Participates in a walk with German Chancellor Merkel

11:55: Holds a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Merkel, Schloss Elmau

President Obama greets locals dressed in traditional Bavarian folk dress while strolling with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Kruen, Germany this morning

1:10: Participates in the G-7 arrival ceremony

1:30: Attends a G-7 meeting on the global economy

3:0: Attends a G-7 meeting on trade

4:45: Joins G-7 leaders for a family photo

7:30: Attends a cultural performance

8:30: Attends a G-7 working dinner

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Monday

The President will attend a G-7 meeting on energy and climate and a G-7 meeting with outreach guests on terrorism. Afterward, he will participate in a family photo with outreach guests and attend a working lunch on development issues. In the afternoon, he will hold a press conference before returning to Washington, DC.

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On This Day: President Obama talks with aides outside the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Paris before returning to Washington, June 7, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)

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MoooOOOooorning!