President Barack Obama on Sunday appealed for calm after an acquittal in the killing of black teen Trayvon Martin, saying: “We are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken.”
“I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son,” he said in a statement the day after a jury found neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman not guilty in a racially-charged trial.
'Jury has spoken' on killing of black teen: Obama
