Subject: Flag: (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Trump does it again with Ferguson, calling city among world's most dangerous
From: "Jefferson, Deshundra" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 12:12:12 -0700

WASHINGTON • Donald Trump has dissed Ferguson again.

He told a reporter for the New York Times magazine that Ferguson, along with Oakland, Calif., is one of the most dangerous cities in not just America, but the world.

This was the exchange, according to the Times.

“ ‘What’s the most dangerous place in the world you’ve been to?’ ”

“He contemplated this for a second. ‘Brooklyn,” he said, laughing. ‘No,’ he went on, ‘there are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously.’ ”

The world, of course, includes dangerous places like bombed-out Syrian cities, cities and towns in Iraq and Afghanistan constantly changing hands between terrorists, militias and governments, and so forth, and embattled cities on the border between Russia and its neighbors.

Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis, fired back. He tweeted that Trump “knows nothing about Ferguson or keeping America safe.”

Clay followed with a Tweet referencing the shooting death of Michal Brown by a Ferguson police officer in 2014, and two other high-profile cases involving deaths of black men in police custody.

“Ferguson was dangerous for Mike Brown, NYC was dangerous for Eric Garner, Sanford, Fla., was dangerous for Trayvon Martin," Clay wrote.

Trump’s “coddling of racist supporters puts black lives and Latinos at risk, endangers us all,” Clay tweeted.

Trump's comments are stirring up social media.

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Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall referenced the comments,<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-oakland-ferguson-dangerous> then tweeted sarcastically:
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This isn’t the first time the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has mentioned Ferguson negatively. Trump sparked an Internet explosion last August when he said that cities like St. Louis and Ferguson had problems with gangs of illegal immigrants.

Local officials pushed back, hard.

“I work here in town, I live here and I’ve not seen them, and that’s not on our law enforcement’s radar,” Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III said of the gang comments. “No large group of ethnically oriented gangs.”

[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/>Deshundra Jefferson, Southern Regional Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
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