Race and Policing Grip the Campaign Trail

Yoni Appelbaum, Washington Bureau Chief for The Atlantic, and Steve Shepard, editor of the POLITICO Caucus and Chief Polling Analyst, discuss how the presidential candidates are handling the issue of race and policing in light of the fatal shootings of two black men by police officers and an attack that left five police officers dead in Dallas last week.

He also discussed the protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana over the weekend, where more than a hundred people were arrested (including prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson).

I can’t stop thinking about this image: https://t.co/sFkLfB2AnM pic.twitter.com/wXKfqayQ27

— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) July 10, 2016

@BrianLehrer Not very. A vast majority of Americans believe in limited government, economic fairness and opportunity, and social freedom

— Patrick Sprinkle (@psprinkle) July 11, 2016

@BrianLehrer Exaggerated indeed. Even if policy changes.People's hearts need to change. America will rebound. #resilience

— Ian Hosein, MBA (@_IanHosein) July 11, 2016

as divided as it started. i cannot protect my sons from the state's law representatives. they can kill at will. https://t.co/6sHVRWCVSR

— ibrahimSalih (@ibrahimSalih) July 11, 2016

marching, violence and nonviolence has not helped, what needs to happen is that white people need to wake up and grow up. @BrianLehrer

— ibrahimSalih (@ibrahimSalih) July 11, 2016

@BrianLehrer Very impressed by Mark Dayton (MN Gov) and David Brown (Dallas Police Chief). Looking for solutions instead of political points

— Joe Paille (@JoePaill) July 11, 2016

.@BrianLehrer as days go by pls let white listeners know- just as they can't know our pain, they can't know our laughter either. #coping.

— Achiro Hero (@AchiroHero) July 11, 2016

.@BrianLehrer white folks may see us laugh, joke and smile while we're at work, among ourselves, at a bar or club. That don't mean we're ok.

— Achiro Hero (@AchiroHero) July 11, 2016