Trump Mentions Police-Involved Shootings in Statement About Dallas

She is decrying “too much violence, too much hate” and “too much senseless killing”.

“We’ve got to figure out what is happening when routine traffic stops, when routine arrests, escalate into killings …”

In another tweet, she wrote, “Alton Sterling Matters”. And refuted assertion by FBI Director James Comey that she was “extremely careless” with classified information. A November 2011 report by the Justice Department showed that young African-American men are just 1 percent of the population, yet are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of murders in the nation.

In a video statement late Friday, Trump also called for unity among Americans.

“Our interest is in staying out of the politics of the moment, not to provide photo ops”, Mr Bratton told reporters.

“We have a very beatable candidate in Hillary Clinton”, Labrador said. A spokesperson for Trump did not respond when asked, by The Daily Beast, if he’d made similar phone calls. Corker has since withdrawn his name from consideration.

With race relations becoming a more prominent issue in the White House race, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a top contender to be Trump’s vice presidential running mate, told Fox News that Trump and his No. 2 can help broaden their appeal by going to inner cities, where many African Americans live.

For the first time, Trump referenced Castile and Sterling-but not by name. “I think that Jeff was correct in saying that”.

The gatherings come less than two weeks before a GOP convention that a number of leading Republicans are skipping, including some in Congress. And while Trump is sure to be greeted enthusiastically by a handful of lawmakers, many more have expressed skepticism, criticism or outright opposition to a presidential candidate who has flouted conservative principles and divided the Republican Party. And what I’d like to do today, rather than talk about the campaign specifically, is; I’d like to have those members of have concerns about my candidacy and about what I’ve said, to come to the microphone and let’s have a real conversation and see how we might reconcile some of those differences. The events prompted protests across the country, including in Dallas. “I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters, for their families & all who serve with them.-H”, she said.

Trump tweeted earlier: “Prayers and condolences to all of the families who are so thoroughly devastated by the horrors we are all watching take place in our country”.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump also scrapped his campaign events Friday. This was Trump’s second trip to Capitol Hill in two months.

Trump will also meet privately with several dozen Hispanic business, government and religious leaders at a local Cuban restaurant. Her comments follow the police shooting of two black men in two separate incidents in Louisiana and Minnesota over the past week.

Ms Clinton yesterday appeared on three American networks and answered questions related to her use of a private email account as secretary of state during President Barack Obama’s first term.

Clinton aides said she was expected to address the shootings during her remarks.

It would have been Clinton’sfirst appearance with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Trump has also attacked Clinton for taking campaign donations from banks and lenders that profited from the housing collapse and subprime mortgages.

Trump called the officer deaths “horrific execution-style shootings” and “an attack on our country” in a Friday Facebook post. The violence broke out as hundreds of people gathered in Dallas to protest this week’s fatal police shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota.