Hillary Clinton weighs in on Eric Garner chokehold death, Ferguson:

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12. Classic Clinton immediacy and decisiveness.

Following in the tradition of her first comments about Ferguson on August 28, a mere 19 days after the shooting occurred. In this age of Tweets, it's great to have a President-elect who's not embarrassed to respond at Pony Express pace.

She began by expressing empathy for the parents of Mike Brown, but in a bit of point-missing that would characterize her remarks, added that “losing a child is every parent’s greatest fear and an unimaginable loss.”

The point she missed, of course, is that losing a child in this manner, gunned down unarmed by police, is not every parent’s greatest fear, but to those for whom it is, the parents of young black men and boys, it is an extremely imaginable loss. It’s a loss that most black parents couldn’t un-imagine if they tried.

In addressing the aftermath of the shooting, Clinton was just vague enough that people could know what she was talking about, but she could avoid explicitly denouncing the police. She talked about the “dramatic, terrible pictures on television,” and noted that “Nobody wants to see our streets look like a war zone,” but didn’t explain why they looked like a war zone. As Clinton described it, the frayed “bonds of trust and respect” sounded like a two-way street, at best.

Hillary Clinton Kinda Feels Bad About What Happened In Ferguson Maybe

Good to have someone thoughtful, deliberate, and courageous like President-elect Clinton, unlike that harpy Elizabeth Warren, who rashly responded just five days after the incident. Has she no shame?!