Donald Trump attempted to clarify his call to reinstate “stop-and-frisk” police practices Thursday, saying he specifically wanted law enforcement to use the practice in Chicago. Trump said stop-and-frisk had worked in NYC and sort of said it could be used in Chicago, with his exact quote being, “I see what’s going on here, I see what’s going on in Chicago, I think stop-and-frisk [would work]”. I see what’s going on in Chicago. “If you can give me facts and figures that show something else, I’m more than happy to listen, but let’s get over it”. “We did it in NY, it worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive”, Trump said at a town hall in Cleveland. The process was expanded under former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but was deemed unconstitutional in 2013 by the Federal District Court in Manhattan.
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Trump has previously said that he would look to increase the number of police officers in inner cities to bring down the crime rate and improve training, but has offered little other specifics on this policy front. For instance, the New York Times reports that 83 percent of police stops in New York between 2004 and 2014 involved Blacks and Latinos – even though the two groups account for slightly over 50 percent of the city’s population.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, “directly” shares the responsibility of the unrest afflicting the U.S. following a series of shooting of black people by the police, her Republican rival Donald Trump has alleged. The police have so far refused to do so by citing a North Carolina law, but that law does not go into effect until October 1.
Trump said it’s up to the candidates themselves to call out their rivals when they are wrong.
The protests in Charlotte began after Keith Lamont Scott, an African-American man, was shot and killed by police on September 20.
Summing up the greater problem with race relations Trump said, ‘it just seems that there’s a lack of spirit between the white and the black’.
As he swung through OH on Wednesday to discuss policing and minority issues, the RealClearPolitics poll average showed him with a 2.5 percentage point lead in the critical state.
Democrat Hillary Clinton did not address escalating racial tensions on Thursday as she prepared for her first debate-stage meeting with Trump. ‘People can criticize me. you have to do something’.
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New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio said in response to the candidate’s comments that Trump is “either ignorant of the history of the city or he’s lying about it”, the New York Daily News reported.
