Protesters angry over the police killings of unarmed black men won’t prompt change through violence, President Barack Obama said during an interview Thursday.
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A day earlier at a town hall event in Ohio, Trump endorsed the practice as a way to reduce violence, particularly in black communities, telling a voter: “I would do stop-and-frisk”.
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“What we have to do is use our history to propel us to make even more progress in the future”, Obama said. Trump continues to speak to mostly white audiences on the campaign trail.
Trump himself sent a mixed and at times unclear message that could rankle African-Americans even as he called for a nation united in “the spirit of togetherness”.
“The rioting in our streets is a threat to all peaceful citizens and it must be ended and ended now”, Trump said. “He has had no experience with policing, no experience with public safety”. And If you’re not aware, drugs are a very, very big factor in what you’re watching on television at night. Other Republican leaders in hard political situations, notably New Hampshire Sen. A campaign spokeswoman said Clinton made the decision after consulting with community leaders and will instead visit on October 2.
The 30-second ad shows young girls and women looking in the mirror as they hear Trump describe various women as “fat”, a “slob” and one who “ate like a pig”. “She ate like a pig” and “A person who is flat-chested, it’s very hard to be a 10”. The vast majority of calls coming into Cruz’s office had turned increasingly negative in recent weeks with many voters urging him to support Trump to prevent a Clinton victory, according to Republicans familiar with the situation. Half say he’s at least somewhat racist.
The Trump campaign later said the candidate was merely referring to reports of increases in the number of drug-related deaths.
Clinton responded on the campaign trail, first lamenting that there were “two more names to add to a list of African-Americans killed by police officers”, referring to Scott and to Terence Crutcher, who was killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on September 16.
Reports of overturned trash cans with their contents on fire, smashed auto windows and looting followed a second night of violence in Charlotte late Wednesday.
Courting black voters who have long spurned Republicans, Trump’s event in Cleveland Heights’ New Spirit Revival Center took a freaky turn when he was introduced by boxing promoter Don King, who used a racial slur as he made the case for black voters to support Trump. “I mean, it’s a bad thing that we’re witnessing”.
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