Speaking to an audience of 1,600 at the Boston Convention Center
today, Hillary Clinton addressed equal pay, paid leave, having it all,
and took a few moments to chime in on the national discussion of recent
grand jury decisions in Ferguson and Staten Island. The sold-out event
was the 10th annual Massachusetts Conference for Women.
Hillary Clinton Backs Obama's Post-Ferguson Policy Proposals
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Hillary
Clinton on Thursday endorsed President Barack Obama's creation of a
task force to examine police practices and encouraged the use of
technology like body cameras to improve policing.
Her
remarks about the police practices during a speech in Boston were her
first in the wake of intense anger after grand juries opted against
indicting police officers in the killings of black men in New York and
Ferguson, Missouri.
"These tragedies did not
happen in some far away place, they did not happen to some other
people," she said, speaking in Boston at a conference for women there.
"These are our streets, our children, our fellow Americans and our
grief."
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