Clinton's conundrum - caught between protesters and police


  • World
  • Monday, 11 Jul 2016

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 8, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Mostoller

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The shocking shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers have magnified the challenge that Hillary Clinton faces as she tries to reassure both voters jittery about social unrest and activists angry about law-enforcement abuses that she is on their side.

For Clinton, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, the political concerns going forward are two-fold. She can't afford to alienate black and progressive voters she needs to show up in large numbers in the November election by taking too strong a stand against the protests like those recently in Louisiana and Minnesota that resulted in hundreds of arrests.

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