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Obama Says No Excuse For Excessive Force By Police

NPR | By The Associated Press
Published August 14, 2014 at 1:06 PM EDT
U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement on the situation in Iraq and in Ferguson, Missouri, at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on August 14, 2014. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement on the situation in Iraq and in Ferguson, Missouri, at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on August 14, 2014. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

President Barack Obama says there is no excuse for the use of excessive force by police in the tense aftermath of the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, and no excuse for violence against the police.

In brief remarks near his vacation spot in Martha’s Vineyard, Obama said he wants an open and transparent investigation of the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, so that justice is done.

He also said police shouldn’t be arresting and bullying journalists who are doing their jobs. Two reporters were taken into custody and briefly jailed Wednesday evening in the St. Louis suburb.

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