Close Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett said in a video released Sunday to mark the 11th anniversary of the shooting death of Black Florida teen Trayvon Martin (as he pounded George Zimmerman’s head into the sidewalk) that then President Barack Obama told her to plant a question about Trayvon with a reporter at a Rose Garden event announcing the nomination of Jim Yong Kim for World Bank President held on March 23, 2012.
George Zimmerman and Travon Martin. Zimmerman was tried and acquitted in the death of Trayvon, successfully claiming self-defense.
Video and transcript of the event shows that only one question was asked at the event, and it was about Trayvon Martin.
Jarrett: “President Obama had a press conference scheduled not long after the death of Trayvon Martin and we were in the Oval Office with him right before he went out to make his remarks. And he said to us in a very emotional way, “There is a reason why the Black community is so outraged by this stuff because he’s walking down the street with Skittles in his own neighborhood and why is he a threat?
Always see the child like pic of Barrys son. Never the late teenage thug picture. Try to rob someone and end up paying the price, well taxpayers dont have to pay for jail time!
Dead story with the pun intended. NEXT!