Ferguson riots, race and Obama's nightmare holiday

By Nick O'Malley
Updated August 20 2014 - 6:08am, first published August 19 2014 - 11:26am

Barack Obama took time out from his holiday to address the nation on two complex and violent crises – one in Iraq, one in Ferguson, in the suburbs of St Louis, Missouri, a town has looked much like an occupied territory since a white cop shot a young black man dead at lunchtime last Saturday.

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