Hillary Clinton said Tuesday night that if she were elected she would do more to reduce police violence against unarmed Americans, especially black Americans.
In response to a question about pop star Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime performance at a CNN town hall in South Carolina, Clinton acknowledged there is an “enormous number of police officers in our country that perform honorably every single day.” But she also said there was more to do.
“We have lost too many young people, so what’s the answer?” she said. “I don’t think the answer is for us to find ourselves in opposing camps where we’re just going to be looking at each other with, you know, mistrust. We have to figure out how we’re going to lift up the good practices, reform policing, provide more support, so that force is a last resort, not a first choice.”
Clinton pointed out mothers in the audience who had lost children to violent encounters with law enforcement and advocated for more police training.
“We’ve got to come to grips with the fact that we’ve got to do some retraining here,” she said. “We’ve got to do some work.”
“We’ve got to come to grips with the fact that we’ve got to do some retraining here,” she said. “We’ve got to do some work.”
Isn’t that special. You might want to start here if you’re concerned about the rates of incarceration:
Lobbyists for two major prison companies—Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group—are serving as top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
“The implication is that laws governing crime and incarceration will deliver more inmates and profits to private prison companies if Clinton is elected.”
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/private_prison_lobbyists_are_fundraising_for_hillary_clinton_20150724
So she’ll have to repudiate her husband’s crime bill and pretend that she never made the ‘predator’ statement and return the money that she receives from the for-profit prisons which benefited.
Only kidding about that last part.
It’s all in a day’s work for the Clinton campaign revising history and adapting to the breezes.
The Chameleon Strikes Back!
Yes, Hillary there is much work to be done…so lets roll up the sleeves and get the job done!
In fairness to HRC, her campaign stopped taking private prison donation about a year (?) ago. A protester interrupted her during a speech and that’s when it hit the media.
But I feel stupid saying “in fairness” because she stopped taking GEO’s bag money once her campaign got caught. Is there anything more insidious than private prisons?
I’ll vote for her if she becomes the nominee but what is it about the Clintons that they always seem to push the envelop or play by their own rules when it concerns money and politics. And worst of all they do it when they don’t have to!