Milwaukee (Wisconsin) County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. just took the stage and told the crowd: "Blue Lives Matter," to cheers and shouts from the crowd. Clarke has given interviews where he described the activist group Black Lives Matter as having a “hateful ideology." Blue Lives Matter refers to law enforcement officials.
Darryl Glenn, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in the western state of Colorado, took to the stage and told those gathered at the convention that somebody "with a nice tan needs to say this — all lives matter.” Glenn said civil rights activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson do not speak for black America.
Several speakers on Monday night's program made references to the activist group Black Lives Matter, which took root after several incidents nationwide where African-American men were killed by police.
The 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi is a theme the speakers at the Republican National Convention keep returning to:
Mike Pence, the presumptive vice presidential candidate, is in the audience Monday night for the convention. He's sitting next to former Republican presidential candidate, and former senator, Bob Dole.
