US President Barack Obama speaks at the Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 21, 2014 (AFP Photo/Ethan Miller)
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday he fully supported the U.S. Justice Department's decision not to charge a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager last year.
"You can't just charge him anyway because what happened was tragic," Obama told a town hall-style meeting in South Carolina.
"That was the decision that was made, and I have complete confidence and stand fully behind the decision that was made by the Justice Department on that issue."
(Reporting by Julia Edwards; Writing by Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Sandra Maler)
