The practice of stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in NY in 2013 since it unlawfully targeted blacks and Latinos, but it was not banned outright. Trump said Thursday morning that he was calling for that policy to be implemented in Chicago, where gun violence has skyrocketed, with more than 3,000 people shot in that city so far this year.
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Trump has sought to express empathy, but his words could rankle some in the African-American community.
She addressed racial tensions, albeit in a humorous way, in an interview released Thursday on comic Zach Galifianakis’ web program, “Between Two Ferns”. And as recently as last week, Trump’s eldest son tweeted a meme commonly used by white nationalists.
“I assume he’ll wear that red power tie”, Clinton said. “We did it in NY, it worked incredibly well”, he said.
The Republican nominee admitted for the first time publicly last week that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
“How can we lead when we can’t even control our own cities”, Trump said during remarks at an energy conference in Pittsburgh.
Clinton has come under fire for saying half of Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” because they are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Tim Kaine, speaking in Nevada, said Hillary Clinton wants to invest in more training for community policing to head off problems before they start.
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”.
Trump, who has focused on restoring “law and order” in his presidential campaign, seized on the unrest in Charlotte to renew his call for tough-on-crime policies to bring down crime rates in major American cities and once again appeal to African-Americans to join his campaign.
“In my opinion, I see what’s going on here, I see what’s going on in Chicago – I think stop-and-frisk. It’s unbearable and it needs to become intolerable”. The group includes the mothers of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, black victims of high-profile killings. His suggestion that Chicago’s violence is worse than that of Afghanistan is incorrect.
Their silence was not new: numerous same people arguing for more access to firearms don’t stand by that support when it comes to fellow citizens of color. He never talks about the people of the United States as an “us”.
Trump meant to clarify comments made in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that was broadcast Wednesday evening. “In New York City, it was so incredible the way it worked”, Donald Trump said during a Fox News town hall in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday spoke of his support of using “stop-and-frisk” exclusively in Chicago, where he said gun violence is making the city more risky than “war-torn” countries.
