Hillary Clinton Meets With Mothers Of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Michael Brown And Tamir Rice
compiled at Daily Kos:
The Week reports:
On Monday, Hillary Clinton met with the families of several African-American teenagers and children who died in shootings to discuss their experiences and her plans for "commonsense" gun control.
Clinton spent more than two hours in Chicago meeting with more than a dozen mothers who lost their children to gun violence, including the mothers of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old killed in 2012 in Florida by former neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman; Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old killed in a 2014 shooting that started with a complaint about loud music; Michael Brown, the 18-year-old killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in a shooting that sparked unrest in the town; and Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot and killed by police in Cleveland while carrying an airsoft gun.
The Huffington Post reports:
"She is a mother and she is a woman and I felt she understood where we were coming from," said Samaria Rice told CNN. "It doesn't matter what color we are, I felt that she really understand where we are coming from."
Also in attendance was the family of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl fatally shot by a gang member in Chicago just weeks after she performed at President Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration. First lady Michelle Obama attended her funeral.
Clinton has been vocally supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice, which gained prominence following Martin's death.
“We all have a responsibility to face these hard truths about race and justice honestly and directly,” she said in a July speech.
Time reports:
According to the women, Clinton did not make any explicit promises to them, but did pledge to stay engaged in their causes and work on criminal justice reform. All of them women described the meeting as productive and said Clinton appeared earnest and trustworthy.
Fulton, Martin's mother, said the meeting with Clinton was "powerful" and "productive."
"It was a very powerful meeting, it was very powerful," she said.
"I think that it was very productive," Hamilton said after the gathering. "I think that all the work that the mothers are doing on behalf of our loved ones, it is working. People are asking to hear our stories. People are asking to find out what kind of legislation and policies we are changing."
She added: "We are hoping that her being a mother, being a grandmother that once she gets in office (she) can be effective to help all people, not just the black people, Hispanic people, everybody."
Clinton tweeted about the meeting afterward, saying that she was "grateful to spend time today with mothers who have lost a child to violence and turned their grief into a national call to action."
Clinton later pointed out the tragedy that occurred while the meeting was happening:
While in Chicago discussing the way forward, another child dies from gun violence just miles away. Devastating. https://t.co/3mXyMSTsxk -H
— Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton November 3, 2015
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I don't deny that. Nor is it my problem. It's actually Sanders' problem, since it is hurting his campaign. But carry on, please do.
We've spent 7 years here with the "Obama bad" theme. It's being shifted to candidate Clinton. 
Some of the comments have nothing to do with difference in policies and are just vicious and personal. They are the kind of comments one can expect to read on a RW site, why should one have to read them on a Democratic site?
