Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, originally announced Friday that she was planning to visit the North Carolina city on Sunday, while Trump’s campaign has indicated the Republican presidential nominee is planning a visit for sometime next week.
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Presidential Hillary Clinton will delay her trip to Charlotte after a plea on national television from the city’s mayor Jennifer Roberts on CNN.
Clinton, the first woman presidential nominee of a major political party, has taken a couple of days off from campaigning, while Trump said he plans to campaign even tomorrow.
In a statement late Friday, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri said: “Hillary is grateful for, and intends to honor, the invitation from faith leaders to visit with the Charlotte community”. A campaign spokeswoman said Clinton made the decision after consulting with community leaders and will instead visit on October 2.
“In the meantime her prayers are with the people of Charlotte during these hard days”, Palmieri continued.
“It’s presumptuous for him to make conclusions like that without having thorough conversations with some of the folks who are here on the ground and are really aware of what’s going on and what the reasoning is”, she told CNN’s Carol Costello on “Newsroom”.
“[The] overwhelming majority of people who have been concerned about police-community relations [are] doing it the right way”, the president said. The curfew has ended for Friday in Charlotte following a night of mostly peaceful protests of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by an officer.
Clinton said Wednesday that the shootings had added two more names “to a long list of African-Americans killed by police officers”.
Shelby is charged with first-degree manslaughter. We have so much work to do. In Oklahoma, 40-year-old Terence Crutcher was shot to death by Tulsa Officer Betty Shelby.
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Police officers in riot gear stand by as protesters gather in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. But he has not commented directly on the Scott killing.
