The city was under a midnight curfew after two previous nights of chaotic protests that led to one death as well as injuries, arrests and vandalism.
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Clinton “shares directly in with the responsibility for the unrest that is afflicting our country”, Trump told a crowd in suburban Philadelphia on Thursday, while the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, braced for a third night of protests following a fatal police shooting of a black man on Tuesday night. The North Carolina governor activated the National Guard overnight after another night of violent protests.
It was another day of mixed messages on a delicate issue from the tough-talking Republican presidential contender, eager to blunt criticism that his campaign inspires racism in the midst of what he called “a national crisis”.
Before going to Pittsburgh, Trump, on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” program, was asked to define the tactic.
Putney said he was not releasing the footage because “I have to do what I can to protect the integrity of the investigation”, though Scott’s family viewed the video earlier Thursday.
“I watched the shooting in part in Tulsa, and that man was hands up”, Trump said.
Clinton notably made no direct mention of Trump in a speech in Orlando, Florida, focused on helping people with disabilities thrive in the USA economy.
Trump, in particular, has struggled to balance a message that appeals to his white, working-class base with one that improves his standing with minorities and educated whites who may worry about racial undertones in his candidacy. Trump was slow to disavow former KKK leader David Duke earlier in the year and has repeatedly promoted tweets by white supremacists during his White House bid. The Republican nominee admitted for the first time publicly last week that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. King, who is black, used the N-word while introducing Trump, arguing that African-Americans can not achieve success while emulating whites because they will remain “negroes”.
Clinton has made curbing gun violence and police brutality central to her candidacy.
“We do know that we have two more names to add to a long list of African-Americans killed by police officers”. “It’s unbearable. And it needs to become intolerable”.
Clinton has campaigned alongside a group of black women called the “Mothers of the Movement”, who advocated for more accountability and transparency by law enforcement.
Clinton has no public events Thursday as she focuses on preparing for next week’s opening debate.
Trump has sought to express empathy, but his words could rankle some in the African-American community. Clinton just shook her head, smiling.
Trump says there’s pressure on NBC’s Holt ahead of Monday’s debate at Hofstra University. Clinton said: “I assume he’ll wear that red power tie”. Galifianakis responded, “Or maybe like a white power tie”.
Trump used the North Carolina unrest to continue his pitch to African Americans and Hispanics, saying they were affected the most by the actions.
Speaking to Fox News a day earlier, Trump spoke out in favor of the controversial stop-and-frisk policy Giuliani put in place in NY which was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in 2013 for being a “policy of indirect racial profiling”. His suggestion that Chicago’s violence is worse than that of Afghanistan is incorrect. “There’s a lack of something, something that’s going on that’s bad, and what’s going on between police and others is getting worse”. His comment during the Fox town hall that the female officer involved in the Tulsa shooting might have “choked” was notable considering he typically emphasizes support for law enforcement officers.
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“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.
