Diving into the debate over police use of force, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged police departments throughout the country to use body cameras and urged an end to excessive prison sentences that burden black communities, according to Reuters. In a speech at New York's Columbia University, Clinton called on America "to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice" in the aftermath of this week's Baltimore riots. "There is something wrong when a third of all black men face the prospect of prison during their lifetimes," said Clinton, the front-running Democrat in the 2016 race for the White House. The former U.S. senator called on Congress to help "end the era of mass incarceration," tapping into growing bipartisan efforts in Washington to lower America's sky-high rates of imprisonment. Criminal justice reform is emerging as a rare point of agreement between Democrats and Republicans. Clinton praised Republicans, including Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, one of her rivals for the presidency, for promoting the issue. Clinton addressed the violence in Baltimore, where rioters looted stores and burned buildings to the ground on Monday after the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after suffering injuries while in police custody. -- SPA 20:13 LOCAL TIME 17:13 GMT تغريد
