The city was under a midnight curfew after two previous nights of chaotic protests that led to one death as well as injuries, arrests and vandalism.
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De Blasio rejected that claim and attributed the sharp drop in crime to another strategy adopted by Bill Bratton, the city’s longtime police commissioner who retired less than a week ago. On Wednesday night, Governor Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency in North Carolina. But after reading from notes about the role of the black church in the civil rights movement and vowing to help struggling black Americans, Trump questioned the Tulsa officer’s reaction in shooting Crutcher, who was unarmed. He spoke shortly after joining other supportive lawmakers for a meeting Thursday with Trump political director Jim Murphy. “If you’re black and you haven’t been successful for the last 50 years, it’s your own fault”, she said. “We also saw the targeting of police officers in Philadelphia last week. Every day police officers are serving with courage, honor and skill”.
President Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly. He added, “And if you’re not aware, drugs are a very, very big factor in what you’re watching on television at night”.
The speech in Pittsburgh addressed the racial divisions that have devolved into violence and promised that these racial divisions would be unacceptable if he were elected in November.
“Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration”, Trump told an energy conference in Pittsburgh, as a room full of natural gas and coal industry executives listened in silence.
“Our country looks bad to the world, especially when we are supposed to be the world’s leader”, he continued. “It’s like ‘wow, here we go again, ‘” Trump said of the protests, noting that he was “not overly surprised” about what went on. He added: “The main victims of these violent demonstrations are law-abiding African-Americans who live in these communities and only want to raise their children in safety and peace”.
African Americans listened carefully to Trump’s rhetoric about Muslims and Mexicans: His horrendous poll numbers among blacks reflect a widespread understanding that nothing good can come of a Trump presidency. Trump’s America will be known for its hyper-militarized police forces, an intensification of stop-and-frisk policies, and expanded racial and religious profiling.
In an interview Thursday morning on “Fox and Friends”, Trump said he would “stay cool” in the debate.
The comments came hours after the NY billionaire falsely suggested that Chicago is more violent than Afghanistan, and endorsed a stop-and-frisk policing method.
The Charlotte police have not released a video of the shooting of Scott.
“This isn’t only a matter of terrorism, but also a matter of quality of life”, said Trump, who has proposed an unspecified vetting procedure to screen out immigrants whose views are incompatible with American values.
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In North Carolina, Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger, whose district includes parts of Charlotte where protests have turned violent, said they stemmed from protesters who “hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not”.
