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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered remarks at the annual NAACP convention in Cincinnati on Monday._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jul 18, 2016 6:02 PM UTC Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered remarks at the annual NAACP convention in Cincinnati on Monday. by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jul 18, 2016 6:02 PM UTC Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered remarks at the annual NAACP convention in Cincinnati on Monday. During her statement, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee addressed the recent killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge, La. Read her full remarks below. --- > “” --- ## Transcript [00:00] Yesterday, three police officers murdered [00:05] in an apparent premeditated ambush in Baton Rouge. [00:12] This madness has to stop. Watching [00:16] the news from Baton Rouge yesterday My heart [00:20] broke. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:23] Not just for those officers and their [00:27] grieving families, but for all of us. [00:34] We have difficult, painful, essential [00:38] work ahead of us. To repair the bonds [00:42] between our police and our communities, and [00:47] between and among each other. We need [00:51] one another. The deaths [00:56] of Alton and Philando Drove home how [01:00] urgently we need to make reforms to policing and criminal [01:04] justice. [ APPLAUSE ] [01:10] How we can not rest until we root out implicit bias [01:14] and stop the killings of African- Americans. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4411058/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4411058/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Hillary Clinton's Remarks on Race and Policing After the Baton Rouge Killings","datePublished":"2016-07-18T18:02:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-06T09:41:54.734Z","description":"\"This madness has to stop\"","url":"https://time.com/4411058/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton-transcript/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","police","2016","justice","NAACP","Democrats 2016"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebb1c8b3d9cedab8/69889c59ab6d7708de6aa7c9/gettyimages-522938650.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebb1c8b3d9cedab8/69889c59ab6d7708de6aa7c9/gettyimages-522938650.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Holds Connecticut Campaign Rally","caption":"Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Holds Connecticut Campaign Rally","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4411058/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton-transcript/","name":"Read Hillary Clinton's Remarks on Race and Policing After the Baton Rouge Killings"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Clinton Remarks on Police Reform at NAACP Convention","description":"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered remarks at the annual NAACP convention in Cincinnati on Monday.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/LcAzyhQX/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-07-18T18:11:13.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/LcAzyhQX.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4411058/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton-transcript/","duration":"PT1M20S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4411058/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton-transcript/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```