Hillary Clinton Calls On Whites to Empathize With African-Americans
Hillary Clinton called the killing of five police officers in Dallas “an absolutely horrific” event, but she also implored white people to try to empathize with the experiences of African-Americans who fear encounters with the police.
“I want us to remember that just 24 hours before, we had a killing with a loss of life in Baton Rouge and Minnesota,” Mrs. Clinton told CNN on Friday afternoon.
“We’ve got to do more to listen to one another,” she added. “We’ve got to do everything possible to support our police and to support innocent Americans who have encounters with police.”
Mrs. Clinton praised the bravery of the Dallas police force. “When the shooting started and everyone else was fleeing, the police were moving toward the danger,” she said in her first extensive remarks since the attack in Dallas the night before.
“We’ve got to do more to bring the police together with the communities that they protect,” she said, citing her plan to retrain the police and make law enforcement officials more interwoven with the communities they serve.
But she also said that police forces needed to “go after systemic racism,” and she pleaded with white Americans to try to understand “those African-American families who fear every time their children go somewhere.”
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