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| Hillary Clinton made a plea for empathy between police and black communities in her address to the the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Monday, calling for an end to the “senseless violence” of the past several weeks. | Hillary Clinton made a plea for empathy between police and black communities in her address to the the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Monday, calling for an end to the “senseless violence” of the past several weeks. |
| “We must reform our criminal justice system because everyone is safer when there is respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law,” Clinton said. | “We must reform our criminal justice system because everyone is safer when there is respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law,” Clinton said. |
| Clinton’s appearance marks the 107th convention of the country’s most enduring and influential civil rights organization. The theme for the 2016 NAACP convention, “Our Lives Matter, Our Votes Count”, borrows from the Black Lives Matter movement against police violence and systemic racism. Clinton expressed broad support for the aims of the movement and the NAACP in her remarks, but first addressed the recent outbreak of anti-police killings . | Clinton’s appearance marks the 107th convention of the country’s most enduring and influential civil rights organization. The theme for the 2016 NAACP convention, “Our Lives Matter, Our Votes Count”, borrows from the Black Lives Matter movement against police violence and systemic racism. Clinton expressed broad support for the aims of the movement and the NAACP in her remarks, but first addressed the recent outbreak of anti-police killings . |
| “Killing police officers is a terrible crime,” Clinton said. “They represent the rule of law itself. If you take aim at that and at them, you take aim at all of us ... There can be no justification,” Clinton said. | “Killing police officers is a terrible crime,” Clinton said. “They represent the rule of law itself. If you take aim at that and at them, you take aim at all of us ... There can be no justification,” Clinton said. |
| In Baton Rouge on Sunday, a gunman killed three police officers and critically wounded another in a targeted attack. Like Micah Johnson, the gunman who killed five officers in Dallas earlier this month, Long was a black US military veteran who held radical views about race and expressed anger over police killings of black men. | In Baton Rouge on Sunday, a gunman killed three police officers and critically wounded another in a targeted attack. Like Micah Johnson, the gunman who killed five officers in Dallas earlier this month, Long was a black US military veteran who held radical views about race and expressed anger over police killings of black men. |
| Clinton then pivoted to the strained relationship between police and black communities, and the recent high profile shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minneapolis that inspired renewed outrage and protest over police action throughout the country. | Clinton then pivoted to the strained relationship between police and black communities, and the recent high profile shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minneapolis that inspired renewed outrage and protest over police action throughout the country. |
| “The deaths of Alton [Sterling] and Philando [Castile] drive home how urgently we need to make reforms to policing and criminal justice, and how we cannot rest until we root out implicit bias and stop the killings of African Americans,” Clinton said. | “The deaths of Alton [Sterling] and Philando [Castile] drive home how urgently we need to make reforms to policing and criminal justice, and how we cannot rest until we root out implicit bias and stop the killings of African Americans,” Clinton said. |
| She added: “There is clear evidence that African Americans are disproportionately killed in police incidents compared to any other group, and African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.” | She added: “There is clear evidence that African Americans are disproportionately killed in police incidents compared to any other group, and African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.” |
| Tashima Taylor, of the Cincinati NAACP branch, said she was pleased with Clinton’s address. “It was more than what I expected her to say, so I was pleasantly surprised,” Taylor said. “I don’t know if she heard our president, but it sounds like she did, and I heard her.” | Tashima Taylor, of the Cincinati NAACP branch, said she was pleased with Clinton’s address. “It was more than what I expected her to say, so I was pleasantly surprised,” Taylor said. “I don’t know if she heard our president, but it sounds like she did, and I heard her.” |
| Before Clinton spoke, Cornell Brooks, the NAACP president, said in his keynote address that support for any presidential candidate would be contingent on their agreeing to the association’s “protect and preserve our lives pledge” which he outlined as a five-point plan to address police violence. The pledge asks the incoming president to take executive action to defund discriminatory law enforcement agencies and to give the Department of Justice more latitude to investigate and sanction police departments, within 100 days of taking office. | Before Clinton spoke, Cornell Brooks, the NAACP president, said in his keynote address that support for any presidential candidate would be contingent on their agreeing to the association’s “protect and preserve our lives pledge” which he outlined as a five-point plan to address police violence. The pledge asks the incoming president to take executive action to defund discriminatory law enforcement agencies and to give the Department of Justice more latitude to investigate and sanction police departments, within 100 days of taking office. |
| Clinton in turn highlighted almost all the same policy positions as Brooks and pledged in her address to “take action on day one and every day after that until we get this right”, to raucous applause. The former secretary of state also said she planned to “fix the crisis of mass incarceration”, address the school-to-prison pipeline, and commit resources to prison re-entry programs, all topics that resonate with the NAACP’s criminal justice platform. | Clinton in turn highlighted almost all the same policy positions as Brooks and pledged in her address to “take action on day one and every day after that until we get this right”, to raucous applause. The former secretary of state also said she planned to “fix the crisis of mass incarceration”, address the school-to-prison pipeline, and commit resources to prison re-entry programs, all topics that resonate with the NAACP’s criminal justice platform. |
| Clinton zeroed in on the importance of voting rights as well, as the US prepares for its first presidential election since the supreme court gutted the civil rights era Voting Rights Act in 2013. | Clinton zeroed in on the importance of voting rights as well, as the US prepares for its first presidential election since the supreme court gutted the civil rights era Voting Rights Act in 2013. |
| “We’ve got to stand up against any attempt to roll back the clock on voting rights,” Clinton said, adding that with Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee, the votes of NAACP members “matter now more than ever”. | “We’ve got to stand up against any attempt to roll back the clock on voting rights,” Clinton said, adding that with Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee, the votes of NAACP members “matter now more than ever”. |
| The NAACP has long held up voting as a core part of its civil rights strategy, and has aggressively challenged the recent spate of voter suppression legislation throughout the country aimed at decreasing poll availability and tightening identification requirements. | The NAACP has long held up voting as a core part of its civil rights strategy, and has aggressively challenged the recent spate of voter suppression legislation throughout the country aimed at decreasing poll availability and tightening identification requirements. |
| Clinton announced that her campaign would be embarking on a goal to register 3 million new voters before the November election. “None of us can afford to be silent with so much at stake,” Clinton said. | Clinton announced that her campaign would be embarking on a goal to register 3 million new voters before the November election. “None of us can afford to be silent with so much at stake,” Clinton said. |
| Clinton renewed her criticism of Trump as a divisive figure, and someone who “plays coy with white supremacists”. | Clinton renewed her criticism of Trump as a divisive figure, and someone who “plays coy with white supremacists”. |
| Trump was also invited to speak at the convention, but unlike his predecessors, John McCain and Mitt Romney, he chose not to attend. Trump begins the Republican party’s convention across the state in Cleveland on Monday night. | Trump was also invited to speak at the convention, but unlike his predecessors, John McCain and Mitt Romney, he chose not to attend. Trump begins the Republican party’s convention across the state in Cleveland on Monday night. |