“The deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota also make clear how much more work we have to do to make every American feel that their safety is protected”, Trump said.
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“And everyone in the Trump campaign is praying for our courageous police officers and first responders who risk their lives to protect us”. “We have to listen to the fears of our police officers, who get up every day and do a risky job, like the police in Dallas who ran toward the shooting when it broke out after a peaceful protest”, she said responding to questions on shootout at Dallas the deadliest incident for law enforcement in the United States after 9/11.
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each reacted Friday to the deadly police shootings in Dallas.
“We can not, we must not vilify police officers”, she said.
There was an onus, he said, “on all of us to stand up, to speak out about disparities in our criminal justice system, just as it’s on all of us to stand up for the police who protect us in our communities every day”.
“The senseless, tragic deaths of two motorists in Louisiana and Minnesota reminds us how much more needs to be done”, Trump said in his statement.
Hundreds of people gathered in Dallas to protest the killings Thursday night when a gunman opened fire, killing five police officers and injuring seven others.
Politicians from Texas and around the country offered condolences and reactions to the fatalities, with Trump decrying “the horrors we are all watching take place in our country”. As president, she said, she plans to commit $1 billion “to find and fund’ training programs and research to deal with that”.
In Missouri on Friday, a police officer was shot from behind after he walked back to his patrol auto to check the driving status of a black man who he had stopped.
Bratton said he would be happy to brief Trump on the department’s actions in the wake of Thursday night’s attacks on Dallas police, adding that presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had made just such a request.
Trump’s response to the shooting in Dallas was remarkably different from his response to mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, last month.
The post was one of many Mr. Walsh has been sharing that have been fraught with racial tensions, and attempting to put blame on the Black Lives Matter movement and President Obama for the shootings. Given all the shootings, he said, “they might as well cancel all the campaign events” through the election.
“The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in American society, and I think what is happening has said that we can not sweep it under the rug or in some dark corner”.
“Remember what they were doing?”
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Cruz also praised police officers’ courageous response to the attacks. The violence broke out as hundreds of people gathered in Dallas to protest this week’s fatal police shootings in Baton Rouge, La., and suburban St. Paul, Minn.
