Hillary Clinton reacted Tuesday to the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, calling it “unbearable.”
In an appearance on “The Steve Harvey Morning Show,” Clinton said that she wanted to appeal “directly to white people” to work towards reducing “implicit bias” in policing.
“How many times do we have to see this in our country? In Tulsa, an unarmed man with his hands in the air?” she said. “I mean, this is just unbearable, and it needs to be intolerable.”
On Monday, Tulsa police released video of the fatal shooting of Crutcher, an unarmed black man, by a white officer. Police said that Crutcher refused to raise his hands, according to an AP report, although in the video the victim appears to put his hands on his vehicle.
“Terence did not have any weapon. Terence did not make any sudden movements,” said Damario Solomon-Simmons, an attorney for Crutcher’s family. “We saw that Terence was not being belligerent.”
The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting, according to the AP.
In the interview with Harvey, Clinton went on to praise the “good, honorable, cool-headed” police response to the Saturday night bombing in Manhattan.
“Maybe I can, by speaking directly to white people, say, look, this is not who we are,” she added. “We can do better. We have got to rein in what is absolutely inexplicable.”
And then you have the NRA boogie-men pitching their fun brand of hysteria…
NRA warns voters that Clinton will leave them unprotected
The National Rifle Association’s new spot is aimed at people who are already afraid, and hammers Hillary Clinton for wanting to leave them defenseless.
I’m waiting Donald…I mean who is HILLARY to denounce the shooting of a black man or take white people to task when she doesn’t BELIEVE in the 2nd Amendment and wants to take your guns away???
Trump/Pence/GOP Base: “Speak for yourself.”
Headline (unless I’m reading it wrong) isn’t what she said: “I mean, this is just unbearable, and it needs to be intolerable.” The NEEDS to be is, I believe, a big deal.
Aw c’mon, Hill: Can you think of anything more dangerous than an unarmed black pastor with a stalled car?