--- title: Barack Obama on Ferguson description: Live from Martha's Vineyard canonical: https://time.com/3111513/ferguson-michael-brown-barack-boama/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-14T16:12:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:40:29.588Z article:section: Politics og:title: Barack Obama on Ferguson og:description: Live from Martha's Vineyard og:url: https://time.com/3111513/ferguson-michael-brown-barack-boama/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb41ac0e93c3803da/69869f8355a8593a00a822a2/barack-obama-2.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: barack-obama-2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Barack Obama on Ferguson twitter:description: Live from Martha's Vineyard twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb41ac0e93c3803da/69869f8355a8593a00a822a2/barack-obama-2.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch President Obama Speak Live About Ferguson by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Aug 14, 2014 4:12 PM CUT  AP by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Aug 14, 2014 4:12 PM CUT President Barack Obama is delivering remarks about the violence in Ferguson, Mo., and about Iraq, from Martha’s Vineyard where he is currently on vacation. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3111513/ferguson-michael-brown-barack-boama/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3111513/ferguson-michael-brown-barack-boama/"},"headline":"Watch President Obama Speak Live About Ferguson","datePublished":"2014-08-14T16:12:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:40:29.588Z","description":"Live from Martha's Vineyard","url":"https://time.com/3111513/ferguson-michael-brown-barack-boama/","keywords":["White House","politics","Civil Rights"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb41ac0e93c3803da/69869f8355a8593a00a822a2/barack-obama-2.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb41ac0e93c3803da/69869f8355a8593a00a822a2/barack-obama-2.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"barack-obama-2","caption":"","creditText":"AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3111513/ferguson-michael-brown-barack-boama/","name":"Watch President Obama Speak Live About Ferguson"}}]}] ```