Trump continued: “We’re going to have surrounding states and, very importantly, get North Atlantic Treaty Organisation involved because we support North Atlantic Treaty Organisation far more than we should, frankly, because you have a lot of countries that aren’t doing what they’re supposed to be doing”.
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The penalties for killing a police officer are rightly more severe than those for killing a civilian because police are symbols of the rule of law, she said.
“Watching the news from Baton Rouge yesterday, my heart broke”.
“We have hard, painful, essential work ahead of us to fix the bonds between our police and our communities, and between and among each other”, she added. “We are heartbroken for the families grieving the loss of their loved ones, especially during this time that is supposed to be one of national Thanksgiving and family celebration”. He has excoriated Clinton for her vote to approve the Iraq War, but has indicated he is untroubled by Pence’s identical vote (not to speak of his own previous support for that war).
She said there is a cavernous divide steeped with distrust and anger between the police and many African-American communities. “I’d rather be right here with you”. “Some of you in this room”, she said at the NAACP annual conference.
While condemning the murders of police officers, Clinton also said Americans need to confront the country’s history of racial bias.
The presumptive Democratic nominee vowed, if elected president, to reform the US criminal justice system and also make sure that those who murder law enforcement officers are held accountable.
The announcement may have helped solidify Democrats who were already lining up behind Clinton – 31% say Sanders’s endorsement makes them more likely to vote for her and just 3% say they are less likely.
“None of us can afford to be silent with so much at stake”, Clinton told the audience of hundreds of black civic leaders. “We can’t ignore that, we can’t wish it away”, Efe news quoted Clinton as saying.
She accused him of demeaning women, playing coy with white supremacists, insulting Hispanics and forbidding the rental of his NY apartments to blacks in 1973. We must reform our criminal justice systems because everyone is safer when there’s respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law.
Clinton went on to hit Trump for stoking questions about President Barack Obama’s citizenship, charging that he “plays coy with white supremacists”.
“We grieve for the officers killed in Baton Rouge today”. The pledge asks the incoming president to take executive action to defund discriminatory law enforcement agencies and to give the Department of Justice more latitude to investigate and sanction police departments, within 100 days of taking office.
“I haven’t started”, Donald Trump said in an interview.
Seventy-five percent of self-identified Idaho Republicans said they plan to vote for Trump, with 10 percent said they would vote for someone other than the four candidates in the poll, 6 percent undecided, 5 percent for Johnson, 2 percent for Clinton and 1 percent for Stein.
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NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said that organizers were expecting Trump’s presence.
