“This is a national crisis”, Trump said during a speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Thursday.
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“He wasn’t talking about Charlotte specifically”, Conway said. Naturally, the topic turned to Donald Trump.
Many Americans are watching the unrest in Charlotte unfolding right before their eyes on their TV screens. Others are witnessing the chaos and the violence firsthand.
He also anxious aloud whether the protests and unrest had diminished the nation’s global standing. White House senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, New York City’s first lady, Chirlane McCray, and Essence Editor-in-Chief, Vanessa DeLuca, who served as a panelist, joined hundreds of community leaders, officials, mothers and daughters for a wide-ranging discussion about societal images of Black women and girls.
“We must do everything we can to ensure they are properly trained, respect all members of the public, and any wrongdoing is always and it will be, by them, vigorously addressed”, Trump said.
Trump, who was campaigning in swing states Pennsylvania and Ohio Thursday, commented on the situation in Charlotte as he began his remarks in Pittsburgh, calling for “unity and the spirit of togetherness” and an end to violence against police officers.
As she prepared for their debate Monday night, Clinton used humor to poke at her opponent by appearing on comic Zach Galifianakis’ web program, “Between Two Ferns”. “She ate like a pig” and “A person who is flat-chested, it’s very hard to be a 10”.
The Rev. James C. Perkins, pastor of Greater Christ Baptist Church in Detroit and president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, said Democratic voters have to remember the issues important to them, even if they don’t like or trust Clinton. “We have got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias”.
But hours later he called for the expanded use of stop-and-frisk, a police tactic that a federal judge has ruled can be discriminatory against minorities.
In an election year in which presidential candidates and supporting political action committees could spend upward of $2 billion on political advertising, local African American-owned media outlets across the country say they’re getting few, if any, of the ad buys.
Trump touted former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s policies that he says brought down the crime rate by 76 percent and murder rate in New York City by more than 80 percent.
Clinton, meanwhile, has called for better police-community relations in the wake of new shootings.
Trump said, “You take a look at the inner cities, you get no education, you get no jobs, you get shot walking down the street”. “For every one violent protester, there are thousands of moms and dads and kids in that same community who just want to be able to sleep”. “Never, ever”, Trump said. She said Wednesday that the shooting in North Carolina and a fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, had added two more names “to a long list of African-Americans killed by police officers”.
“Well, I just wanted to get on with, you know, we want to get on with the campaign”, the GOP nominee responded. “And I am reminded of all those folks who had to count bubbles in a bar of soap, beaten trying to register voters in MS, risked everything so that they could pull that lever”. You have no jobs.
Trump for five years had raised questions and insinuations about the president’s birthplace and the authenticity of his birth certificate. He has insisted that a wall, built by the United States, paid for by Mexico, must rise along the southern border.
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President Obama brought up the stark example of the horrific conditions blacks suffered in this country during slavery as a way to push back against Donald Trump’s claim that African-American communities right now are in the worst shape ‘ever, ever, ever’.
