--- title: Baton Rouge Shooting: Hillary Clinton Decries 'Madness' description: Hillary Clinton spoke out forcefully Monday against the shooting of police by a gunman in Baton Rouge, La. canonical: https://time.com/4410977/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-18T17:44:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:19:55.964Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Decries 'Madness' After Murder of Baton Rouge Cops og:description: “Everyone is safer when there is respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law" og:url: https://time.com/4410977/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b41d027da1ba325/69889c580a4a227f1b9ca7e8/clinton-baton-rouge.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Addressess the NAACP Convention In Cincinnati og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Decries 'Madness' After Murder of Baton Rouge Cops twitter:description: “Everyone is safer when there is respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b41d027da1ba325/69889c580a4a227f1b9ca7e8/clinton-baton-rouge.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Decries 'Madness' After Murder of Baton Rouge Cops by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 18, 2016 5:44 PM UTC  Hillary Clinton addresses the crowd at the 107th Annual NAACP Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 18, 2016. Hillary Clinton addresses the crowd at the 107th Annual NAACP Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 18, 2016.John Sommers II—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 18, 2016 5:44 PM UTC Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/?xid=homepage) spoke out forcefully Monday against [the shooting of police by a gunman in Baton Rouge, La.](http://time.com/4410017/baton-rouge-police-shooting-what-to-know/?xid=homepage), saying attacks on law enforcement officers need to stop. “This madness has to stop,” Clinton said as the Republican convention kicked off in Cleveland. “Everyone is safer when there is respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law,” added Clinton, who has sought to strike a balance between support for Black Lives Matters protesters and condemnation of any attacks against police. The shooting Sunday in Baton Rouge left three police officers dead and others wounded. Clinton called for building trust between cops and the communities they police, something she said gets more difficult after every death. “Today there are people all across America sick over what happened in Baton Rouge and in [Dallas](http://time.com/4397785/dallas-shooting-police-protest-snipers/?iid=sr-link6), but also fearful that the murders of police officers means that vital questions about police community relations will go unanswered,” Clinton said. “Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of these police officers,” she added. “Empathy works both ways.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4410977/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4410977/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Decries 'Madness' After Murder of Baton Rouge Cops","datePublished":"2016-07-18T17:44:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:19:55.964Z","description":"“Everyone is safer when there is respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law\"","url":"https://time.com/4410977/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Election 2016"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b41d027da1ba325/69889c580a4a227f1b9ca7e8/clinton-baton-rouge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b41d027da1ba325/69889c580a4a227f1b9ca7e8/clinton-baton-rouge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton Addressess the NAACP Convention In Cincinnati","caption":"Hillary Clinton addresses the crowd at the 107th Annual NAACP Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 18, 2016.","creditText":"John Sommers II—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":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4410977/baton-rouge-shooting-hillary-clinton/","name":"Hillary Clinton Decries 'Madness' After Murder of Baton Rouge Cops"}}]}] ```