And I know we can. “And if I am elected president, we will”, Clinton said.
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Hillary Clinton kicked off a campaign event Wednesday by saying that the recent police killings of two African-American men that unleashed a national uproar this week are “unbearable” and “intolerable”. ‘It’s unbearable… It needs to become intolerable’.
Her speech was given in a small venue, the Frontline Outreach Center for Youth and Children, attended by perhaps 500 people. She began in the 1970s as an activist, working on behalf of the Children’s Defense Fund, and discovering that disabled children were being kept out of school because the schools could not or would not accommodate and help them.
“I know I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anybody who does”, Clinton said. Scott, who police say had a gun, refused to drop his firearm before he was fatally shot by a black officer, authorities added.
This disgusting shooting again.
“And we’ve seen others”.
“Keith Lamont Scott. Terence Crutcher”.
Clinton said she’d “do everything possible to improve policing” and “go right at implicit bias” if she wins in November. We’ve seen them in action, in NY over the last, you know, 48 hours because of the terrorist attacks’.
She added, ‘We can do better. We have got to reign in what is absolutely inexplicable, and we’ve got to have law enforcement respect communities and communities respect law enforcement because they have to work together’.
“We are safer when communities respect the police and police respect communities…” His family has said that Scott was unarmed and reading a book in his auto, but the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police says that Scott came out of the vehicle with a gun. He also asked the Justice Department to open a probe into the shooting.
Clinton condemned the shooting on Harvey’s show as she compared herself to Trump.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Orlando, Florida, the former first lady and Democratic presidential nominee avoided discussing details of both cases but said the nation should not tolerate such tragedies.
The shooting prompted a demonstration that injured about a dozen police officers.
‘Every day, police officers across the country are serving with extraordinary courage, honor and skill. “We saw that again this weekend in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota”, Clinton said. In fact, it has been proven that police actually hesitate longer with a black suspect, likely because they are fully aware of the firestorm that will happen after they pull the trigger, whether they are right or wrong.
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“We need Donald Trump, especially black people”, King said. And this young officer, I don’t know what she was thinking.
