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.”