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ReutersJuly 20, 2012 12:12
Obama: Aurora theater shooting (VIDEO)
Obama: Aurora theater shooting (VIDEO)
Obama: Aurora theater shooting (VIDEO)
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U.S. President Barack Obama during a moment of silence for the shootings in Colorado at an event in Fort Myers, Florida July 20, 2012. Obama cut short a campaign swing through Florida on Friday, following a deadly shooting rampage in Colorado. A masked gunman killed 12 people and hurt about 50 others during a shooting at a movie theater in a suburb of Denver during a screening of the new Batman movie early on Friday. (Reuters/Courtesy)
FORT MYERS - President Barack Obama, in a short but moving speech in which he spoke as the parent of two young daughters, said he was putting aside his re-election campaign on Friday to focus on the tragedy of a deadly shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
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"There are going to be other days for politics. This, I think, is a day for prayer and reflection," Obama told supporters at a previously scheduled campaign event that he cut short to address the incident in a suburb of Denver that killed 12.
(Reporting By Alister Bull; Editing by Vicki Allen)
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/120720/obama-aurora-theater-shooting-video
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