Clinton condemns shooting of Baton Rouge officers at NAACP convention

CINCINNATI (AP) — Hillary Clinton on today called for an end to the "madness" after the death of three law-enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, La., condemning a series of recent shootings involving police and vowing to hold those who kill police officers legally accountable.

"They represent the rule of law itself. If you take aim at that and at them you take aim at all of us," Clinton told civil-rights activists at the annual convention of the NAACP. "There can be no justification, no looking the other way."

The Democratic presidential candidate said, "We have difficult, painful, essential work ahead of us to repair the bonds between our police and our communities and between and among each other."

A former Marine ambushed police in Baton Rouge on Sunday, killing three law-enforcement officers in the attack. Three other officers were wounded, one critically. The shooting was the fourth high-profile deadly encounter involving police over the past two weeks.