During a campaign event in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton addressed the recent shootings of black men by police officers in Oklahoma and North Carolina, offering her condolences for the families.
“We are safer when communities respect the police and police respect communities,” Clinton said, telling the crowd that Americans need to work together to “build trust” and end violence.
Clinton, who was off the campaign trail Tuesday, used the Orlando speech to the put forward reforms to help this disabled. She proposed reforms to help people with disabilities. Clinton called for fair pay for people with disabilities and the elimination of the subminimum wage, and she said she would push to make colleges more accessible for students with disabilities. She also proposed a new effort to help people with autism in the workplace and called for the U.S. to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
But she opened the event with a nod toward the two new recent police shootings that have garnered national attention.
“There is still much we don’t know about what happened in both incidents, but we do know we have more two more names to add of a list of African-Americans killed by police officers in these encounters,” she said. “It’s unbearable and it needs to become intolerable.”
She also mentioned the police officers targeted in Philadelphia last week and protests in North Carolina that left several police officers injured. And she commended the efforts of police in responding to attacks in Minnesota and the New York-New Jersey area.
“Our police handled those terrorist attacks exactly right and they likely saved a lot of lives,” she said.
