Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar snaps while addressing media in Patna on Friday. (TOI photo)
PATNA: A heated exchange was witnessed here on Friday between Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and journalists when they nettled him over a high-profile murder case that rocked the state capital earlier this week.
Kumar was talking to reporters after dedicating to the public the first phase of Atal Path , a Rs 379.57 crore elevated multiple lane road project that promises to drastically reduce traffic congestion in a major part of the city.
As the chief minister began to speak about the improvement in infrastructure since he assumed power a decade and a half ago, he was interrupted by journalists who insisted that law and order has deteriorated, citing the example of a young official of a private airlines having been gunned down outside his residence in the city Tuesday evening.
would have been true had george zimmerman been an african-american, he would have been charged very quickly. in this case, may not have made national news. i think o mara is distracting the public away from the idea that what is so raw about this case is not simply that it s black and white or, in that case, but you have an unarmed child who was killed by an armed adult, who pursued him and profiled him. those facts have to be remembered and that is why this has been so raw. what do you make of the protests that have sprung up literally in cities across the country? i expected it. did you? i did expect it. this case has touched a nerve on a number of for a number of reasons. number one, there is this continuing lingering distrust of the criminal justice system that exists in broad parts of the
he did not and got out of his car and started to pursue this young man. if we learn something about this it s the conduct and the choices that you make that could be leading you down, i think, a very dangerous and, obviously, in this case, fatal path. steve king, the republican from iowa had this to say about the president in regards the zimmerman case. let me play that. the evidence didn t support prosecution and the justice department engaged in this and the president engaged this and turned it into a political issue that should have been handled with the law and order. anklely what, is reaction to that? my reaction he is fundamentally inaccurate. it took more than 40 days to day george zimmerman. from day one, trayvon martin was treated as a suspect by george zimmerman and the police department. that is why his dead corpse was subjected to toxicology text testing. george zimmerman never was. whether or not he grease with