--- title: Baton Rouge Shooting: Transcript of Hillary Clinton Speech description: "This madness has to stop" canonical: https://time.com/4411058/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton-transcript/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-18T18:02:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:20:00.567Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Clinton's Remarks on Policing After the Baton Rouge Killings og:description: "This madness has to stop" og:url: https://time.com/4411058/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebb1c8b3d9cedab8/69889c59ab6d7708de6aa7c9/gettyimages-522938650.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Holds Connecticut Campaign Rally og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Clinton's Remarks on Policing After the Baton Rouge Killings twitter:description: "This madness has to stop" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebb1c8b3d9cedab8/69889c59ab6d7708de6aa7c9/gettyimages-522938650.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Hillary Clinton's Remarks on Race and Policing After the Baton Rouge Killings by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jul 18, 2016 6:02 PM UTC  Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, smiles while speaking during a campaign event in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on Thursday, April 21, 2016\. Tuesday night's New York primary not only ended a multi-state losing streak for current front-runners Donald Trump and Clinton, who won roughly 60 percent of the vote each, but also moved them an important step closer to the general election. Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, smiles while speaking during a campaign event in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on Thursday, April 21, 2016\. Tuesday night's New York primary not only ended a multi-state losing streak for current front-runners Donald Trump and Clinton, who won roughly 60 percent of the vote each, but also moved them an important step closer to the general election. Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images 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. 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