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U.S. NEWSWednesday 2 December
Clinton commemorates boycott, says US must address injustice
the slain civil rights leader and communities because
preached his Sunday ser-
mons from 1954 to 1960. of incarceration and pre-
King’s daughter, Bernice
King, gave the benedic- mature death. And too
tion. “We must be hon-
est about the larger and many black families mourn
deeper inequalities that
continue to exist across our the loss of a child,” she said.
country,” Clinton said.
Clinton’s speech fell on the Clinton praised the work of
anniversary of Rosa Parks’
Dec. 1, 1955 arrest for re- police who build trust and
fusing to give her bus seat
to a white passenger. Her confidence with the pub-
arrest sparked the 381-day
boycott of Montgomery lic, but she called for re-
buses by blacks to protest
segregated seating. forms and “a new course
“There are still injustices
perpetuated every day in in how we approach pun-
our country, sometimes in
spite of the law, sometimes ishment and prison.”
unfortunately in keeping of
it,” Clinton said. Clinton also decried what
She said mass imprison-
ment of nonviolent crimi- she called efforts to erode
nals such as drug offenders
does little to reduce crime, the voting rights that mi-
but much to rip apart fami-
lies. norities won decades ago.
“Right now an estimated
1.5 million black men are “Unfortunately, there is mis-
missing from their families
chief afoot,” she said.
In stops in the South, the
Democratic presiden-
tial front-runner has been
working to solidify her ad-
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial vantage among African-
Baptist Church, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in Montgomery, Ala. Clinton’s keynote address is part of American voters.
a two-day event put on by the National Bar Association in recognition of the 60th anniversary of Clinton has made frank
the Montgomery city bus boycott which began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a discussion about the coun-
white man. (AP Photo/ Hal Yeager) try’s lingering racism a cen-
KIM CHANDLER boycott, Democratic presi- ic of gun violence and at- tral theme of her primary
Associated Press dential front-runner Hillary tempts to roll back voting
MONTGOMERY, Alabama Clinton reached out to rights. campaign, in an effort to
(AP) — Standing in the black voters Tuesday say- Clinton spoke to a majority
pulpit where the Rev. Mar- ing the U.S. is still plagued black crowd at the Dex- woo the coalition of minor-
tin Luther King Jr. led the by injustices such as mass ter Avenue King Memo-
historic Montgomery bus incarceration, an epidem- rial Baptist Church where ity, young, and female vot-
ers who twice catapulted
Barack Obama into the
White House.q
Officer says he told boy to show hands before fatal shots
JOHN SEEWER he saw the boy pulling a A grand jury will decide Ginty to step aside and al- Loehmann and patrolman
Associated Press weapon out of his waist if Loehmann or his field low a special prosecutor Frank Garmback describe
A white Cleveland patrol- band. training officer should be to take over the case. They in detail action that the
man who fatally shot a “I knew it was a gun and I charged criminally for called the prosecutor’s surveillance video shows
12-year-old black boy car- knew it was coming out,” Tamir’s death. presentation to the grand took about two seconds.
rying a pellet gun told in- officer Timothy Loehmann Prosecutors in recent jury “biased” and “im- They were responding af-
vestigators that he and his said in the statement given weeks released a frame- proper” after releasing the ter a person called police
partner continuously yelled to investigators. by-frame analysis of the reports that found no fault and reported that a man
“show me your hands” be- It turned out Tamir was car- surveillance camera foot- with the officers’ actions. was waving a gun and
fore he fired, according rying a nonlethal, Airsoft- age from the shooting, They said Tuesday that pointing it at people. The
to the officer’s statement type gun that shoots plas- along with expert reports allowing both officers to caller told the dispatcher
released by prosecutors tic pellets when Loehmann that called the shooting make unsworn statements that the gun might not be
Tuesday. shot him twice outside a justified. that won’t be subject to real. The call also said the
The rookie officer said that recreation center on Nov. Attorneys for the Rice fam- cross examination “further man might be a juvenile,
Tamir Rice didn’t obey 22, 2014. He died a day ily have asked Cuyahoga taints these proceedings.” but that information wasn’t
his commands and that later. County Prosecutor Tim Mc- The statements from passed on to the officers.q
