--- description: President Obama speaks after the announcement that a grand jury did not indict Ferguson cop Darren Wilson in Michael Brown's death title: Watch Live: Obama Addresses Ferguson Grand Jury's Decision Not to Indict Darren Wilson image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd30bda8ec6e62d8c/69876ac62dce01767f9dbfe1/obama-ferguson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Live: Obama Addresses Ferguson Grand Jury's Decision Not to Indict Darren Wilson by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 25, 2014 3:09 AM CUT  US President Barack Obama speaks following the announcement of the decision in the case of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on November 24, 2014 in Washington, DC. US President Barack Obama speaks following the announcement of the decision in the case of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on November 24, 2014 in Washington, DC.Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 25, 2014 3:09 AM CUT President Barack Obama makes a statement from the White House in the wake of the [announcement](http://time.com/3598612/ferguson-grand-jury-decision-darren-wilson-michael-brown/ "undefined") Monday evening that a grand jury decided against indicting Ferguson, Mo., cop Darren Wilson in the August shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3604148/president-obama-ferguson-grand-jury-darren-wilson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3604148/president-obama-ferguson-grand-jury-darren-wilson/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Obama Addresses Ferguson Grand Jury's Decision Not to Indict Darren Wilson","datePublished":"2014-11-25T03:09:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:21:07.113Z","description":"Statement comes after St. Louis County prosecutor announced decision against indictment","url":"https://time.com/3604148/president-obama-ferguson-grand-jury-darren-wilson/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd30bda8ec6e62d8c/69876ac62dce01767f9dbfe1/obama-ferguson.jpg?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":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd30bda8ec6e62d8c/69876ac62dce01767f9dbfe1/obama-ferguson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-CRIME-RACISM-JURY-DECISION-OBAMA","caption":"US-CRIME-RACISM-JURY-DECISION-OBAMA","creditText":"Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images","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/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3604148/president-obama-ferguson-grand-jury-darren-wilson/","name":"Watch Live: Obama Addresses Ferguson Grand Jury's Decision Not to Indict Darren Wilson"}}]}] ```