Clinton On Police Murders: ‘This Madness Has To Stop’

Meanwhile, the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee lashed out at Trump, saying that America deserves better than him.

Clinton painted her tycoon opponent as a threat to democracy, lacking a policy platform and whose company refused to rent to African American tenants in the 1970s.

Addressing the annual convention of the NAACP in Cincinnati, the presumptive Democratic nominee decried the police shootings of two African-American men – Alton Sterling and Philando Castile – whose deaths set off a national wave of protests, as well as the slaying of eight police officers, killed by black men in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who were believed to have targeted officers.

“Lock her up, that’s right”, Flynn said.

“We have hard, painful, essential work ahead of us to fix the bonds between our police and our communities, and between and among each other”, she added. We need one another to do this work and we need leaders like the NAACP.

Clinton said there is “clear evidence” that blacks die at the hands of police much more often than members of other groups, and are likely to be “sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offences”. “We are going to present the facts to you”. We can’t wish it away. “I can hear you”.

“We have to heal the divides that remain, make the United States what it should be-stronger and fairer, more opportunity for every one of our people”, she said.

Clinton has proposed a series of reforms to the criminal justice system, including developing national guidelines on the use of force by police, new investments in bias training, legislation to end racial profiling and funding for body cameras.

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, declined an invitation to address the NAACP conference, the fourth major party nominee to skip the event since 1980.

“We grieve for the officers killed in Baton Rouge today”.

As Republicans kicked off their party convention in Cleveland, Hillary Clinton on Monday tried to spoil the coronation of Donald Trump by painting her rival as a bigot who is incapable of keeping America safe or dealing with the complex challenges around race. “It – focuses on certainly the worldwide peace that, you know, is the point of the campaign.the points the campaign is making relate to certainly the rise of terrorism, – the dysfunctionality in the Middle East, a lack of leadership presented by the Obama and Clinton administration around the world and the consequences of that weak or failed leadership”, Manafort said.

At the same time, Mr. Trump is touting himself as the “law and order candidate”, and the GOP is making its own case to voters that the businessman is the country’s best shot at getting a seemingly endless stream of violence under control.

Hillary Clinton dismissed the first day of the Republican National Convention as a “surreal” experience on Tuesday, comparing the gathering led by Republican Donald Trump to the classic fantasy film “The Wizard of Oz”.