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Newly minted presidential front-runner Dr. Ben Carson told CNN he would’ve stayed silent on Ferguson if he were in the White House — and he wishes President Obama would’ve done the same.
“The president has to uphold the rule of law,” Carson told Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. “And I think he has tried to do that, certainly since the verdict came out. I probably, if I were him, would not have gotten involved in the first place.”
“We have to allow our system to work without biasing things,” the neurosurgeon continued. “And we really should never take sides in these issues while the legal process is in the process of playing out.”
Carson referenced other occasions when President Obama injected himself into racial incidents, including the Henry Louis Gates and Trayvon Martin incidents. “You really must, particularly as the commander-in-chief, be level-headed and even-handed, and always upholding the rule of law,” he said. “Once we lose the rule of law and chaos ensues, that is not going to be the kind of country that any of us want to live in. And the president is the chief law-enforcement officer.”