{"id":9556,"date":"2013-08-22T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9556"},"modified":"2013-08-22T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T11:30:50","slug":"white-house-not-familiar-with-chris-lane-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9556","title":{"rendered":"White House ‘not familiar with Chris Lane murder’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"trayvonobama\"<\/a>Josh Earnest, principal deputy White House press secretary, said he was not familiar with the murder of Australian jogger Chris Lane during Wednesday\u2019s White House briefing.<\/p>\n

When asked by Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry about the Chris Lane case, Earnest responded, \u201cI\u2019m not familiar with it, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henry explained the case in brief to Earnest looking for reaction to the Oklahoma shooting death of Lane at the hands of \u201cbored\u201d African-American teens who thought it would be \u201cfun\u201d to kill somebody.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sounds like a pretty tragic case. I wouldn\u2019t want to get ahead of the legal process here and it\u2019s clear that law enforcement officials are involved and are investigating,\u201d Earnest said. \u201cBut any act of violence is something that \u2014 the president I think himself has spoken pretty eloquently about violence in our communities and he stood at this podium a few weeks ago where he talked about his concern about the impact that violence is having on, in particular, young people in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henry pressed Earnest, noting that the President spoke about slain teen Trayvon Martin in the Rose Garden and in the briefing room.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy hasn\u2019t [the president] spoken out about this? In this case, you said there was a judicial proceeding. There was one in the Trayvon Martin case. He spoke out extensively on that one,\u201d Henry said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some people in this room I don\u2019t thing who would agree with you that the president spoke out extensively on it,\u201d Earnest responded.<\/p>\n

Henry reiterated his point explaining that the President did speak about the Martin case in response to a question prior to the trial and then spoke about it after the trial in the briefing room.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe expressed his concerns about the impact of violence on communities across the country and he talked about a number of things that the government can do, but also a number of things that we can do in our communities, whether it\u2019s parents, churches, and communities can do to try to address the impact of violence and whether there is more we can do to try to protect our children,\u201d Earnest said. – Daily Caller<\/p>\n

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Josh Earnest, principal deputy White House press secretary, said he was not familiar with the murder of Australian jogger Chris Lane during Wednesday\u2019s White House briefing. When asked by Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry about the Chris Lane case, Earnest responded, \u201cI\u2019m not familiar with it, actually.\u201d Henry explained the case in … Continue reading “White House ‘not familiar with Chris Lane murder’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[501,4669,5434,157,3435],"class_list":["post-9556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-hate-crime","tag-obama-administration","tag-racial-crimes","tag-racism","tag-white-house"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/trayvonobama.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9559,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions\/9559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}