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Joan Walsh Verified account ‏@joanwalsh 22h22 hours ago

For those who worried Clinton would tack back to center on criminal justice/policing issues, this AME speech seems evidence she won't





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RickHendrix ‏@DrRickHendrix 37m37 minutes ago

I love seeing the elders pray over @HillaryClinton - her faith is personal not political.... #ImWithHer


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Hillary Clinton Addresses Recent Shootings At African Methodist Episcopal Church Convention


http://www.npr.org/2016/07/09/485356103/hillary-clinton-addresses-recent-shootings-at-african-methodist-episcopal-church


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July 9, 20168:30 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday


The AME Church is holding its convention this week in Philadelphia. Members react to the deaths of five police officers, after a spate of police-related violence rocked Minneapolis and Baton Rouge.

LYNN NEARY, HOST:

Both of the presumptive nominees canceled campaign events yesterday because of the sniper attack on police in Dallas. But Hillary Clinton did keep one event on her schedule. She spoke to a gathering of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, where NPR's Jeff Brady reports the audience was primed to hear a candidate talk about race in America.

JEFF BRADY, BYLINE: The AME church was founded by a former slave here in Philadelphia 200 years ago. It now has about two and a half million members around the world. The church holds its quadrennial convention during election years, and candidates - usually Democrats these days - come to make a speech. Before Clinton walked on stage, AME Senior Bishop John Bryant told the crowd he wants a presidential candidate who offers substance.

(SOUNDBITE OF CAMPAIGN EVENT)

JOHN BRYANT: We need more than encouraging words.

UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: Yeah.

(APPLAUSE)

BRYANT: We need to leave believing we have found the person that will fight for liberty and justice for all.

(APPLAUSE)

BRADY: The shootings this week in Baton Rouge, outside St. Paul, Minn., and in Dallas - they were on a lot of minds at this convention. When Clinton took the stage, she talked about each incident and mentioned the names of those killed. She told the crowd that after the 24-hour news cycle has moved on from this issue, she won't. Clinton talked about working for a better gun safety legislation and more training for police officers.

HILLARY CLINTON: And I'm going to keep talking about these issues with every audience. And if I'm elected, I'll start working on this on day one and keep at it every single day after that.

BRADY: Clinton also said white Americans need to do a better job of listening when black Americans talk about their experience of living in this country - a point that drew a round of applause at this convention. Outside the hall where Clinton spoke, you could hear people talking about the shootings this week.......................