Obama calls for soul searching over Martin killing,skips verdict

Looking for positive lessons to draw from the shooting death of Trayvon Martin,President Barack Obama said Friday the nation needs to do some soul searching,look for ways to bolster African-American boys and examine state and local laws to see if they encourage confrontations like the one in Florida. Where do we take this? Obama wondered […]

Looking for positive lessons to draw from the shooting death of Trayvon Martin,President Barack Obama said Friday the nation needs to do some soul searching,look for ways to bolster African-American boys and examine state and local laws to see if they encourage confrontations like the one in Florida.

Where do we take this? Obama wondered aloud in an impromptu appearance in the White House briefing room. How do we learn some lessons from this and move in a positive direction?

The president said its time for all of us to some soul searching, but he also said its generally not productive when politicians try to orchestrate a conversation.

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On the positive side,he said race relations in the US actually are getting better. Looking at his own daughters and their interactions with friends,the president said,Theyre better than we are. Theyre better than we were.

He,however,declined to wade into the detail of legal questions about the case,saying,Once the jurys spoken,thats how our system works.

Once an MP, rape-convict Prajwal Revanna is now a clerk at prison library

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Former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, grandson of former PM H D Deve Gowda, has been assigned clerical duties at Parappana Agrahara Central Prison after receiving a life sentence for rape. He earns Rs 520 per day and faces multiple charges stemming from four cases, with evidence including videos of the assaults recorded on his phone. He was found guilty in one case and still faces trial in the others.

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