Reporting by Tasneem Nashrulla in New York; Tarini Parti, Paul McLeod, and Emma Loop in Washington, DC; and Rosie Gray, Ruby Cramer, McKay Coppins, Darren Sands, Kyle Blaine, and Adrian Carrasquillo in Hempstead, New York.
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- Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has a sharp first presidential debate on Monday night — they battled fiercely over race and policing in America, over Trump's unreleased taxes, and over trade. Here's the takeaway: Clinton took charge while Trump was winging it.
- Trump committed several whoppers. He said Clinton has been fighting ISIS her "entire adult life" — which is impossible — repeated the lie that he was against the Iraq war, and lied about denying climate change.
- The tone and body language of each candidate firey. Trump repeatedly interrupted Clinton, while she appeared incredulous at times.
- Moderator Lester Holt was being closely watched — will he call candidates out on lies? How forceful would he be? In the first half he mostly let them have at it — later on he called Trump out on Iraq and taxes. (Take our Where Is Lester Holt Quiz here.)
- BuzzFeed News live-captioned the debate with emoji, then did a Facebook Live wrap of the best memes.
- SniffleGate. Trump kept making nasal-y noises to the point where Howard Dean asked if he was on blow — Trump later shot back that the microphone was "defective."
- Overall, there was a LOT to take in: a reporter yelled "thanks a lot bitch" before the event and became internet famous; people braced themselves for the segment on race in America; and, well, there were lots of memes.
OK, first thing first. If you missed the debate and want to see the whole thing, you can watch it here — captioned with emoji!
We're just emoji-ing what you're thinking.
Trump suggested that stop-and-frisk should be implemented in cities like Chicago to bring down the crime rate. He said that it “worked very well in New York” when former mayor Rudy Guiliani implemented it.
“We have gangs roaming in the streets, in many cases they’re illegal immigrants who have guns and they shoot people,” Trump said. “We have to be very strong. And we have to be very vigilant.”
When Holt pointed out that stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York because it “largely singled out black and Hispanic young men,” Trump told him, “You’re wrong.”
He said that the issue went before a judge “who was a very against police judge” and the case was “taken away from her.” When Holt said stop-and-frisk was viewed as a form of racial profiling, Trump said that guns needed to be taken away from “bad people that shouldn’t have them.”
“You have to have stop-and-frisk,” he said.
Here's how Clinton answered:
Clinton said that it was “unfortunate” that Trump painted “such a dire negative picture of black communities” in the country. She said that there were “right ways” of protecting communities and there were “ineffective ways.”
“Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional,” Clinton said. “And in part, because it was ineffective.”
She also addressed the “systemic racism” in the country’s criminal justice system and called “the gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African American men.” She spoke of the need of “common sense gun safety measures.”
Here's the full quote:
But there were some problems, some unintended consequences. Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. And it's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated. So we've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system. We cannot just say law and order. We have to say -- we have to come forward with a plan that is going to divert people from the criminal justice system, deal with mandatory minimum sentences, which have put too many people away for too long for doing too little.
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