Trump’s latest foray into the black community not only sought to connect with voters in Cleveland, home to a large community of African-American voters key to Clinton’s prospects in OH, but also with moderate suburban voters, who frequently hear Clinton describe Trump as extreme.
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Yet upon being asked in a town hall Wednesday night how he’d tackle black-on-black crime, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said stop and frisk was the answer.
Earlier in the day, Trump seemed to suggest that protesters outraged by the police shootings of black men were under the influence of drugs.
“If you’re not aware, drugs are a very, very big factor in what you’re watching on television at night”, he said at an energy conference in Pittsburgh. “And we’ve overcome so much”, she said.
Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign chair in Mahoning County in eastern OH resigned after she told the Guardian in a video interview that there wasn’t “any racism until Obama got elected”.
That’s correct except that there’s no proof it actually worked well and a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional and a large study by the New York Civil Liberties Union found that people of color were disproportionately targeted.
The fatal police shooting of a black man sparked the protests in Charlotte, and a state of emergency was declared on Wednesday.
Clinton spoke with Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts and Democratic North Carolina Rep. Alma Adams, whose district includes Charlotte, about the shooting and protests today, a Clinton aide said.
Mr. Trump has also used the arrest of an Afghan-American youth in connection with the bomb blasts in NY and New Jersey to reiterate their position in favour of increased surveillance of Muslim neighbourhoods and stricter immigration norms. A white Tulsa officer was charged with first-degree manslaughter on Thursday after the shooting. To Trump, African-Americans are a “they” and a “them”.
“They are the line separating civilization from chaos”, said Trump. “And they won’t have anything to shoot with”, he said. “You understand, you have to have, in my opinion, I see what’s going on here, I see what’s going on in Chicago, I think stop-and-frisk. Ever. Ever. Ever”, Trump said in speech Tuesday in Kenansville, North Carolina, that clearly drew the president’s attention.
“It does raise questions that a politician would be so dogmatic about protecting Second Amendment rights (to bear arms) yet rather cavalier about protecting the constitutional prohibition against illegal search and seizure”, he told a news briefing. The strategy was widely hailed as a crime deterrent when Rudolph Giuliani – a Trump campaign adviser – was the city’s mayor from 1994 to 2001.
I have great news for black voters in Chicago: Donald Trump is reaching out to you!
“The history is that Bill Bratton came in in 1994 and instituted CompStat, which was a systematic, strategic approach to policing”.
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And he blamed Hillary Clinton for helping to stoke inner-city unrest and violence by supporting what he called the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society. That is tragic. But between 1882 and 1931, there were 3,318 black people lynched.
