Obama Applauds LeBron James For Wearing 'I Can't Breathe' T-Shirt

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14. he doesn't have to wear a T-shirt

he's the President of the United States. He has an audience for his thoughts on the issue.

"because I think a lot of people who saw the Eric Garner video are troubled, even if they haven't had that same experience themselves. Even if they’re not African American or Latino.


I think there are a lot of good, well-meaning people -- I think there are probably a lot of police officers who might have looked at that and said, that is a tragedy what happened, and we’ve got to figure out how to bring an end to these kinds of tragedies. But then attention spans move on. There’s the next thing. There’s some international crisis. There’s something that happens here, and change doesn’t really occur.


And the value of peaceful protests, activism, organizing is it reminds the society this is not yet done. And part of what I said when we convened a meeting on Monday here at the White House was not only that I was announcing a task force that has to report in 90 days with specific, concrete steps around training, around how we are equipping police, how we’re holding police officers more accountable, not only were we going to put more funding into some of the training and technology that can prevent these things from happening, but I’m going to stay on this. And not only am I going to stay on it; by virtue of this staying in the news because of some of these protests, hopefully the entire society says let’s finally try to make some real progress on this."

- President Obama

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