Demaryius Thomas personally thanks Barack Obama for helping his family

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Back in the summer of 2015, Broncos wideout Demaryius Thomas had his life changed M.J. Stewart Jersey  . On Monday he finally got a chance to personally thank the man who helped facilitate the change.With the Broncos Super Bowl 50 team traveling to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Barack Obama, Thomas had the opportunity to personally thank the president for pardoning his mother."Yeah, we talked for a quick second. I told him, 'I thank you for what you've done for my family by giving my mother clemency,'" Thomas said. "Also, we talked about my grandmother. Had the application to get everything done,  Justin Britt Jersey and he's looking into that, as well."Thomas' mother, Katina Smith, finally in her life when she attended the Steelers-Broncos AFC playoff game last season. Whitney Mercilus Jersey It was a touching moment that featured Peyton Manning handing Thomas a game ball .  And it's a moment that doesn't happen without the President granting clemency to people he believed were previously over-sentenced. Smith was arrested in 2000 along with Thomas' grandmother as part of a drug trafficking operation. She was originally sentenced to 24 years in prison."These men and women were not hardened criminals, but the overwhelming majority had been Chris Conley Jersey  sentenced to at least 20 years; 14 of them had been sentenced to life for nonviolent drug offenses, so their punishments didn't fit the crime," . "I believe that at its heart, America is a nation of second chances, and I believe these folks deserve their second chance."Thomas also brought a  Sam Cooper Jersey letter for the President which included "a little couple points that my mom wanted me to say to him" but it ended up being hand-delivered by Broncos PR head Patrick Smyth.  The wide receiver said he plans to petition in the coming year to try and have his grandmother pardoned as well, after she didn't qualify in 2015.
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