Barack Obama marks one year since George Floyd’s murder with roundtable, discusses ‘institutional constraints’ he faced as president in addressing Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown killings

Barack Obama, the 44th president, said Wednesday he was limited in what he could do from the walls of the Oval Office during the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown. “There were some frustrations for me in my institutional role. … I went as far as I could just commenting on cases like Trayvon Martin or what was happening in Ferguson.”

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