We did it in NY.
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Still, Trump frequently extols stop-and-frisk’s virtues on the campaign trail, and has been a major advocate of the policy for years.
President Barack Obama, in his first public statement about the three days of protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, called during a television interview for “peaceful” solutions to the nation’s policing issues.
Trump campaigned Thursday in Pennsylvania, addressing an energy summit in Pittsburgh, visiting a famed cheesesteak eatery in Philadelphia and hosting a rally of thousands in nearby Aston.
“Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the violent disrupter, but to make life more comfortable for the African-American parent trying to raise their kids in peace, to walk their children to school and to get their children great educations”, he said. “Ever. Ever. Ever”, Trump said.
Donald Trump gives me a different kind of goose bumps, the kind I feel when a mosque is burned to the ground, or he asks a crowd of talented, articulate, brilliant African Americans, “What do you have to lose?”
A federal judge in NY ruled in 2013 that the program was unconstitutional and violated the rights of minorities because they were being disproportionally targeted by the practice. “He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth”, Cruz said of Trump in May, hours before ending his campaign.
The first debate is on Monday and Election Day is less than seven weeks away.
He said crime in Chicago, where the 3,100-plus shootings so far this year have already outpaced the number that occured throughout 2015, is worse than violence in Afghanistan. “And he looked like a really good man”.
Everyone in the room can think of an unsung hero, Obama said.
It has also been well documented that crime levels were not lowered with the introduction of stop and frisk.
On Wednesday, Trump seemed to call for the national expansion of “stop-and-frisk”, a police tactic that has been condemned as racial profiling.
Current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat who supports Clinton, slammed Trump’s call for more stop-and-frisk as “appalling”. Senior political analyst Jeffrey Toobin repeated the recurring charge that “law and order” represents “code words for cracking down on African-Americans”, claimed Republicans are engaging in “voter suppression”, and accused Trump’s “base” of being “sick and exhausted of African-Americans trying to get political power in this country”. She said Wednesday that the shootings in Oklahoma and North Carolina added two more names “to a long list of African-Americans killed by police officers. It’s unbearable and it needs to become intolerable”.
Clinton has made curbing gun violence and police brutality central to her candidacy.
Support for aggressive policing has always been part of Trump’s political persona, and he has been rewarded in the presidential race with support from a number of law enforcement groups, including the Fraternal Order of Police, a national union that endorsed his campaign last week. The group includes the mothers of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, black victims of high-profile killings.
Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Sen.
On Tuesday, Trump decried the state of black communities. He then drops to the ground. I think you have to. Street demonstrations continued into the early hours Thursday.
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Trump suggested the police officer who fatally shot Crutcher “got scared” or “was choking”, referring to individuals who fail under pressure.
