Clinton: Dallas shootings an ‘absolutely horrific event’

With much of the United States still reeling from this week’s shootings by police in Minnesota and Louisiana and the sniper attack in Dallas that killed five police officers, the two leading 2016 presidential candidates offered prayers and condolences Saturday but also vowed to rebuild the nation and help Americans pull through the tragedies.

The Dallas attack marks the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement officers since the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

Of course, the absence of an indictment does not really clear Clinton in many detractors’ and independents’ eyes, as what has hit her standing so badly has never been arguments of disloyalty but her acting as though she were above limits that others observe and her trying to cover her tracks instead of admitting errors upfront.

Let’s focus on what we already know deep in our hearts. According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken over the last five weeks, almost two-thirds of Americans feel the country is on the wrong track, reflecting their general unease with the economy, terror threats and violence. Too many Americans, he said, live in bad poverty and violence. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings asked politicians and others to choose their words carefully.

“Look at what happened in Dallas”, she continued, referencing the five police officers who died during a July 7 protest there. “They’re crying out and we need to listen”.

She used the internet as an example of people saying things anonymously, contributing to a broader division and heated rhetoric, and then defended the tone of her campaign in the presidential race.

Clinton also called on communities across the country to show more “respect” to the police, as she paid tribute to the officers who risked and lost their lives in Dallas.

No one has all of the answers. “We are America, with bonds that hold us together”. Indeed, that is the only way we can find them. We have to do better than this. For scripture tells us to incline our ears to wisdom and apply our hearts to understanding…. African Americans cowered like everyone else during the onslaught, and reacted with fear, dread and praise for the Dallas police once it was over.

The former secretary of state also said that white Americans need to do “a better job of listening” about the black experience in America. But she also said it was important to acknowledge the “implicit bias” in society and some police departments and, in particular, called on white Americans to empathize with African-Americans. But John Bryant – a senior bishop of the AME Church in Philadelphia – did. “I’m going to be talking about white people”, Clinton said on CNN.

“We believe now the city is safe”, the city mayor said at a news conference on Friday.

“This is the kind of call to action, and as president, I would implement the very comprehensive set of proposals that I’ve been making for more than a year”, she said to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

“There are some who would use these events to stifle a movement for change and quicken the demise of a vibrant discourse on the human rights of Black Americans”, the group said in a statement. Was it greater when we were welcomed into the kitchen but not the dining room?

Other Republicans, however, acknowledged the police shootings. It’s been a rough week. “We need training”, said Cordelia Mitchell from Jacksonville, Fla.

As for Trump’s Tuesday comments, while USA security hawks have opposed giving terrorists their Miranda rights in certain situations, it has been as part of an allowance to use physical pressure or torture while interrogating them, not as a license to kill.