“After further discussion with community leaders, we have made a decision to postpone Sunday’s trip as to not impact the city’s resources”, it said, adding that Clinton will visit the city on the following Sunday.
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Two police videos from a dashboard camera and an officer’s body camera show how Scott died, but have not been released to the public. Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts issued the curfew order Thursday night, to be in effect from midnight until 6 a.m. each day that the state of emergency continues.
Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that President Barack Obama called her when negotiators had reached a deal on Iran’s nuclear program.
“In the meantime her prayers are with the people of Charlotte during these hard days”, Palmieri continued. They discussed “steps we must take to ensure that everyone is respected by the law, and everyone has respect for the law”, the aide added.
Mayor of Charlotte, Jennifer Roberts on Friday publicly asked the two candidates to delay plans to visit her city. “And so as long as everything logistically works out, certainly, yes, he will go visit those folks”, she said of Trump’s possible Charlotte visit.
The tweet is signed with an “H”, meaning that it comes from her personally.
“Looting, breaking glass – those things are not going to advance the cause”, he said as Charlotte was in the midst of three nights of occasionally violent protests after the police shooting of Keith Scott, a 43-year-old African-American man who police said was holding a gun, but which other witnesses said was a book.
“[The] overwhelming majority of people who have been concerned about police-community relations [are] doing it the right way”, the president said.
Police allowed Scott’s family to view the videos on Wednesday.
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After the fatal shootings this week of Scott and another black man, Terence Crutcher, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Clinton said the situation was “unbearable and it needs to become intolerable”.
