Obama says 'institutional role' constrained his comments on Ferguson and Trayvon Martin cases while President

“I went as far as I could just commenting on cases like Trayvon Martin or what was happening in Ferguson because as we discovered, not every president follows this, at least my successor didn’t. But I followed the basic notion that the Justice Department was independent, I could not steer them,” Obama said during a virtual gathering with the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Leadership Forum.As President, Obama continued, “I did not in any way want to endanger their capacity to

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