Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in a statement late Friday that “violence has no place in our politics” after protests forced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to cancel his event.
Clinton said that “many people” in the U.S. “feel angry.”
“We need to address that anger together,” Clinton said.
Here’s her full statement:
The divisive rhetoric we are seeing should be of grave concern to us all. We all have our differences, and we know many people across the country feel angry. We need to address that anger together. All of us, no matter what party we belong to or what views we hold, should not only say loudly and clearly that violence has no place in our politics, we should use our words and deeds to bring Americans together. Last year in Charleston, South Carolina an evil man walked into a church and murdered 9 people. The families of those victims came together and melted hearts in the statehouse and the confederate flag came down. That should be the model we strive for to overcome painful divisions in our country.
