Obama on Garner: 'My Tradition is Not to Remark on Cases'

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President reacts to no indictment in NYC chokehold case

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) The President spoke out after a New York grand jury decided not to charge a police officer who killed an unarmed black man with a chokehold while trying to arrest

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"In his remarks Wednesday on the non-indictment of the New York police officer who allegedly choked Eric Garner to death during a routine arrest, President Barack Obama claimed that he does not involve himself in such controversies. "My tradition is not to remark on cases where there may still be an investigation," he said. 

"The opposite is true: from Skip Gates to Trayvon Martin to Michael Brown, Obama nearly always weighs in.