“The violence against our citizens and our law enforcement must be brought to a very rapid end”, the billionaire businessman said.
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The US presidential candidate has thrown his weight behind a campaign to block Barack Obama from transferring control of the domain name system, which controls website addresses, to an worldwide consortium.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have hunkered down, with Monday’s debate looming over both campaigns.
Protests erupted in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a police officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott while serving an unrelated arrest warrant, but GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump seems to think something else helped spur the civil unrest. “If it did not work in New York City, why would it work in Chicago or any other city around the United States?”
“I’d look her right in that fat ugly face of hers”, Trump says in the ad, a comment he made in 2006 about comedian Rosie O’Donnell.
But amid several appearances at historically black churches, he has also called for a nationwide use of stop and frisk policing tactics, which have repeatedly been found to be discriminatory against African-Americans and Latinos.
The Republican presidential contender, eager to improve his standing among minority voters, confronted racial tensions after police-involved shootings in Oklahoma and North Carolina sparked violent protests overnight.
Hillary 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.
The presidential candidate reiterated his enthusiasm for stop-and-frisk during a town hall meeting in Cleveland Heights, Ohio Wednesday night when a voter asked how he planned to reduce crime and violence in predominately Black communities. “It’s unbearable, and it needs to become intolerable”, she said.
Trump was also asked for his definition of stop-and-frisk.
He said that the police were on the street to act preventively and if they see a person who may be carrying a weapon they should stop that person and confiscate any illegal weapon they find. “I was referring to Chicago with stop and frisk”. About 13 percent said they were undecided.
“This really now unifies conservatives and Republicans around Donald Trump”, said Corey Stewart, Donald Trump’s Virginia campaign chairman. “It does raise questions that a politician would be so dogmatic about protecting Second Amendment rights (to bear arms) yet rather cavalier about protecting the constitutional prohibition against illegal search and seizure”, he told a news briefing. Whether the policy itself led to reduced crime in NY has been disputed. Bratton championed the “broken windows” policing strategy that emphasizes pursuit of crimes no matter how minor.
“New York City was incredible, the way that worked, so I think that could be one step you could do.”
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Trump didn’t provide proof that drugs were playing a big factor in the violent protests, but said that his administration would “make the reduction of crime a top priority”, and he called for a “national anti-crime agenda to make our cities safe again”.
