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Donald Trump Calls for Nationwide Stop & Frisk Program

HeadlineSep 22, 2016

In the wake of the fatal police shootings of Terence Crutcher and Keith Lamont Scott, Donald Trump has called for a nationwide stop-and-frisk program, while speaking at a town hall meeting in a black church in Cleveland hosted by Fox News.

Ricardo Simms: “There’s been a lot of violence in the black community. I want to know what would you do to help stop that violence, you know, black-on-black crime.”

Donald Trump: “Right. Well, one of the things I’d do, Ricardo, is I would do stop-and-frisk. I think you have to. We did it in New York. It worked incredibly well. And you have to be proactive. And, you know, you really help people sort of change their mind automatically. You understand. You have to have—in my opinion, I see what’s going on here, I see what’s going on in Chicago. I think stop-and-frisk—in New York City, it was so incredible the way it worked. Now we had a very good mayor. But New York City was incredible the way that worked. So I think that would be one step you could do.”

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