Friday, March 23, 2012

Obama trayvon martin

  • President Obama addressed the Trayvon Martin shooting today in the Rose Garden. "Obviously this is a tragedy. I can only imagine what these parents are going through.
  • (CNN)
  • President Obama's remarks today about the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin drew scowls from GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich, who called them "disgraceful" and divisive. "What the president said in a sense is disgraceful.
  • (ABC News)
  • WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama spoke in unusually personal terms today about the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, a case that has roiled civil rights activists and a suburban Orlando community.
  • (NJ.com)
  • Obama called the February killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, a tragedy.
  • (CNN (blog))
  • President Obama's decision to comment publicly on the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin isn't terribly surprising. After all, the incident has become a massive national story in the last week.
  • (Washington Post)
  • If I had a son, hed look like Trayvon, Obama said Friday. Obamas words also catapulted the death in Florida of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, already the focus of major national attention, into the presidential campaign.
  • (Herald Tribune)
  • "If I had a son he would look like Trayvon," President Obama said Friday of the recent killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, black teenager who was shot last month in Florida by a neighborhood watch volunteer, who has not been charged.
  • (Time)
  • As protests continued Friday over the shooting death last month of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, President Obama brought the matter to the top of the national agenda with a simple declaration: "If I had a son, hed look like Trayvon.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)

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