Barack Obama in Podcasts
personBarack Obama, former president of the United States, who issued a statement on Michael Brown's death.
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The Obama administration, for one, was exploring ways to make the penny cheaper and do some kind of investigation and research into what different materials could do that without changing too much about the penny, including its weight and the way that it looked.
The protests, sparked by Mike's murder, were changing the way Americans talked about race and policing. It was no longer just a local issue. This was happening on a national level. Tensions were high, even reaching the White House. On August 12, just three days after Mike's killing, then-President Barack Obama issued a statement.