Dallas attack sidelines Clinton-Biden event

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee postponed a campaign event in Miami, Fla., scheduled later today.

In this heated and deeply divisive campaign year, America’s presidential candidates responded Friday with striking reflection and restraint to the week’s killings of five police officers and two black men.

Hillary Clinton says the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers demonstrate there is “something wrong with our country”.

The shootings of Dallas police officers were “a coordinated, premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe”, Trump said in a statement that also referenced this week’s police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. “We need to try, as best we can, to walk in one another’s shoes – to imagine what it would be like if people followed us around stores or locked their auto doors when we walked past … or, if every time our children went to play in the park, or just to the store to buy iced tea and Skittles, we said a prayer: ‘Please God, don’t let anything happen to my baby'”.

Gingrich’s remarks followed a measured statement released by Trump on Friday in which he said the nation has become “too divided”. I think we’re the ones that have to start listening to legitimate cries that are coming from our African-American fellow citizens, and we have so much more to be done, and we’ve got to get about the business of doing it. “This isn’t the American Dream we all want for our children”.

“Now is the time for prayers, love, unity and leadership”.

“Corey does not speak for the campaign and this is not something we agree with”, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said.

She was speaking after postponing a planned rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, with Vice-President Joe Biden. The following day, Castile was fatally shot in a auto by a Minnesota officer, with the aftermath livestreamed on Facebook by his girlfriend.

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In April, she dined with the mothers of black victims of gun violence and police brutality-Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, all of whom were unarmed and died, with the exception of Martin, at the hands of police officers-and listened to their stories.

But this week, they arrived for the first time at what, at times, felt like similar strategies, with Trump taming his characteristic bombast-which he tends to apply during domestic or worldwide terror attacks-to meet Clinton somewhere in the middle. Hillary Clinton is campaigning with president Obama in North Carolina. “We need to bring people together”.

Reflecting on the fatal shootings in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas this week, Hillary Clinton called for a “just accounting” of each case and implored Americans to strive “to walk in one another’s shoes” and reach for common ground.

Trump has said a Clinton win in the November 8 election would amount to a third term for President Barack Obama.