Obama: Facebook torture video was ‘despicable’

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President Obama condemned the torture of a mentally disabled man that was streamed live on Facebook earlier this week.

The president said the incident that involved four black suspects and a white victim was “despicable” but it doesn’t show that racial tensions have worsened.

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