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Hillary Clinton Meets With Black Mothers Who Lost Sons

This is definitely a step in the right direction. This week Hillary Clinton met with the mothers of the boys and young men who have become central in the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Via MSNBC reports:

Hillary Clinton met privately Monday evening in Chicago with the families of young black people who were killed by police officers, according to her campaign, as the Democratic front-runner pushes forward her plan for criminal justice reform.

The participants included Lesley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, whose death tipped off unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last year, and Sabrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, who was killed by a neighborhood watchman in Florida in 2012.

Also in attendance was Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice – the 12-year-old killed by police in Ohio while he was holding a toy gun last year – and Maria Hamilton, the mother of Dontre Hamilton, the mentally ill man who was killed by a police officer in Milwaukee in 2014.

Clinton mostly listened to the mothers’ stories, according to a campaign aide, who said the meeting was meant to address the distrust between police officers and minority communities.

Do you think Hillary will be able to affect changes in the way black people are policed? She also says she wants to end the mass incarceration of black men.

Last week, the former secretary of state added several new planks to her criminal justice reform platform. They include “banning the box” that prospective employees are asked check on job applications if they were arrested; a call for legislation to end racial profiling in policing; and an end to the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Previously, she called for an end to the “era of mass incarceration.”

The campaign aide also said that Monday’s meeting was meant to emphasize the epidemic of gun violence in America, an issue that has become central to Clinton’s campaign and a wedge she has used against Sanders.

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