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Pharrell appeared on America's CNN network on Tuesday (9 September) where he declared that the events in Ferguson, the town where an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by police, will cause the longest ever hangover in race relations.
Speaking of the shooting, which took place last month, the singer said: "I'm disappointed in the way it was handled from the government side, I think that officer should be punished, because that was excessive force. All those shots, where those shots were, the idea that that child layed in the ground - he was a child - for hours. That kid didn't have to get killed, so I feel like that officer should be punished."
He added: "I was disappointed that while we had so much peaceful protestng going on, what the media chose to cover most of all, and highlight, was the random few people that threw molotov cocktails, the random people that had guns on them..."
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Pharrell went on to say that he believed Barack Obama should visit Ferguson. "I feel like the President needs to come down there," he said. "I think he should come down there, because when your parents come in the room, whether it's you or your cousin that knocked the vase down, both of y'all sit up and attention and everybody, as my Dad would say, tighten up."
He added: "This is a deeper laceration in this country. If you think this is gonna blow over, this is gonna be the longest hangover in race relations ever."
