Hillary Clinton INTERUPTED By Black Lives Matter Activists During Atlanta Rally

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Hillary Clinton told the activists “I have some issues and proposals to discuss if my friends will let me speak.” Black Lives Matter activists interrupted Hillary Clinton's Friday afternoon campaign event, throwing a wrench into her attempt to show solidarity with the black community. Protestors chanting "Black lives matter" disrupted Clinton's Atlanta rally kicking off African Americans for Hillary, with Clinton backers responding with chants of "Hillary, Hillary" and “Let her talk” to drown them out.

“Yes, they do, and I’m going to talk about that in a minute,” Clinton responded to the protestors. “My friends, I am going to get to some very important points that actually prove that black lives do matter and we have to take action together. “

But the protestors persisted, as Clinton tried to talk over them. "I have some issues and proposals to discuss if my friends will let me speak," Clinton said, before Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights hero, attempted to calm the protestors by approaching them directly. The mostly black crowd cheered as the protestors were led out of the room. The disruption was the first time Black Lives Matter protestors have interrupted a Clinton event since she jumped into the race, though they’ve protested other Democrats’ campaign events. And it didn’t come at the best moment for her, as the event was meant to showcase Clinton’s strength with black voters.

The former secretary of state was in Atlanta on Friday to unveil new criminal justice reform policies — and show she stands with the black community. Before the rally at Clark University where she was interrupted, she’d spoken at a Rainbow PUSH luncheon hosted by Rev. Jesse Jackson. Clinton is banking on strong support with black voters to help her close out the threat from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders after the early-voting states, when a number of heavily black southern states will vote.


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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/black-lives-matter-activists-disrupt-hillary-clinton-rally-article-1.2418128

[LiberalArkie]

1. Hmmm.

[Agschmid]

2. Kick.

It's good she gets challenged, all our candidates should be challenged on this issue.

[floriduck]

54. And she hasn't given them

a reasonable answer yet. How long can she continue to say everything her husband did was wrong until she runs out of that excuse.

[randys1]

3. I love the capitalizing of interrupted as if BLM doesnt like HIllary, etc.

sheesh...

this is getting tiresome

[Segami]

5. I think ....

its nap time for you.

[sabrina 1]

44. Here's the question for those who used these 'tiresome' tactics when BLM interrrupted Bernie. Do you

you support what they did now to Hillary? Same thing, different candidate. I'm not seeing the same kind of support for them NOW that I saw from Hillary supporters THEN. So wondering why?

[randys1]

56. I am seeing huge support for BLM here, you arent?

[portlander23]

4. "but I'm sorry they didn't listen because some of what they're demanding, I am offering."

Video: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-black-lives-matter-protest-215396

[frylock]

38. If somone here insisted that BLM isn't listening, they'd be labled a Third Way Progressive.

[portlander23]

45. You know

There are so many actual political philosophies to keep track of, we don't need to invent made up ones.

[arcane1]

6. Remember when we were told that the only allowable reaction is to STFU and let them talk?

Betting that the centrists will suddenly decide it's presidential to talk over them and let the crowd chant for BLM to shut up

[jfern]

8. There's a definite double standard

[arcane1]

9. And it only took one minute for my prediction to come true

[Segami]

10. and 1 second....

[arcane1]

13. I admit, I underestimated their mental flexibility

[pa28]

23. Yes I do. I also remember Bernies crowds had to maintain silence because black lives matter period!

Where are the howls of outrage and charges of white supremacy now? Hahaha! Just kidding! There won't be any.

[joshcryer]

24. Do you have a link to that?

That's insanely bizarre.

[George II]

7. And she addressed their issues TWICE in her speech, she didn't shrink to the back...

....of the stage and cower. She faced them head on.

[beam me up scottie]

12. So which is better, letting them talk or talking over them?

I bet if Bernie had done the latter you'd have criticized him for that too.

Give it a rest, George.

[George II]

14. You make a lot of assumptions about what other people think, don't you.

[beam me up scottie]

16. If I know their posting history, yes I do.

Remember your Bankster Bernie meme?

[George II]

17. WHAT are you talking about?

[beam me up scottie]

18. This:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251640125

[George II]

21. What does that have to do with Black Lives Matter?

At least now I see why you always put the person's name that your responding to so you can do an instant search and pull up yesterday's news.

Nice job beam me up scottie!

Now, do you have anything of substance to contribute to this discussion about BLACK LIVES MATTER?

[beam me up scottie]

22. You wanted to know what I was talking about so I posted the link.

I'm just trying to help you out.

now I see why you always put the person's name that your responding to so you can do an instant search and pull up yesterday's news.

That's not how the search function works. Actually I just typed in "bankster Bernie" and voila! Your thread magically appeared!

What does that have to do with Black Lives Matter?

What does Bernie have to do with what happened today, George?

Now, do you have anything of substance to contribute to this discussion about BLACK LIVES MATTER?

Do you?

Other than using the opportunity to Bernie bash, of course.

[yeoman6987]

37. I think that this was different then bernies and she handled it with aplomb

She was speaking to an African American audience about civil rights. Congressman Lewis escorted the group out while the audience applauded. In bernies case he was talking to an all white audience about economic policy. He was not prepared to discuss the topic the group wanted. Hillary was ready and prepared.

[beam me up scottie]

39. Sure, it's always different when it's Hillary.

And the other audiences weren't "all white" nor were they there to hear Bernie speak about economic policies.

I do admire how you managed to work in all the talking points, though.

You get a cookie.

[sabrina 1]

46. Lol 'IDWIH'! So funny!

[Luminous Animal]

20. Which issues did she address?

[joshcryer]

35. She proposed a full ban on racial profiling today.

[George II]

42. Watch the video.

[Fawke Em]

25. They didn't think so.

From my Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/bx3__/status/660201300987125760

https://twitter.com/bx3__/status/660201300987125760

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/660184629438115840

[NCTraveler]

40. It's a shame they are so desperate for....

You personally to say something wrong considering how big this issue is.

[sabrina 1]

47. Why didn't she invite them to speak rather than have them escorted from the room?

[NCTraveler]

57. You would have to direct that question elsewhere.

I love what BLM has done. It's not about Clinton or Sanders, it's about people being shot in the streets. About an oppressive education and justice system. It's about......

And I think Sanders, Clinton, and O'Malley are bringing it. BLM, protesters, and dare I say rioters have taken over this primary in an extremely positive way.

[stranger81]

41. Yep, she faced them head on.

As she was having them escorted out of the room.

[CharlotteVale]

11. Another meme bites the dust.

[arcane1]

26. They'll shove a stick up its ass and prop it in the corner and pretend it's alive and kicking n/t

[CharlotteVale]

34. So I see, LOL.

[sabrina 1]

48. It's different when it's Hillary! She had them escorted out. That's how Bernie should have done it,

no? Lol!

[Luminous Animal]

15. What, specifically, are they protesting? What message did they bring? I'd really like to know.

What do they want Hillary to bring to the table that she hasn't already?

[Fawke Em]

27. They don't think she's taking racial justice seriously.

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/660184629438115840

[Catherina]

69. Nope, She isn't taking police brutality serious enough. Not at all.

[NCTraveler]

19. This group is nailing it....

And has damn near taken over the dem primary. Very impressed.

[Bobbie Jo]

28. Good. nt

[mcar]

29. Looks like she handled it very well

[sabrina 1]

49. Well she had them escorted out. Bernie didn't. Should he have? I'm confused, opinions of these

protests seem to change depending on who the candidate was.

[Fawke Em]

55. Actually, no.

https://twitter.com/ayyeechloe/status/660198247303024641

[oasis]

79. Evidence?

[Fawke Em]

80. Ask her.

I gave you her Twitter feed.

[in_cog_ni_to]

30. Was she shoved out of the way and have the mic taken away?

Why didn't she just SIT DOWN AND STFU AND LISTEN? Then continue to keep her mouth shut? She continued talking? How dare her! How ruuuuuude!

[jfern]

36. The secret service isn't very kind to anyone who does that

So of course that didn't happen.

[Fawke Em]

60. The crowd chanted, "Let Her Talk"...

Here, I'll just let you see this:

https://twitter.com/AUCShutItDown/status/660178154657574912

[JaneyVee]

31. "BLM NEEDS TO BE MARGINALIZED AND GO AWAY!"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251506368

Black Lives Matter. Period.

[joshcryer]

32. BLM finally got a venue where Clinton's SS couldn't prevent it.

Clinton's team probably did expect it and just told Clinton to continue speaking and forge on and wait until the audience groundswell grew. 12 minutes of BLM chanting was impressive though.

Clinton came out for a ban on racial profiling, probably saved that for her first real BLM protest.

And all the idiotic anti-BLM people out there, please don't think for a second that these proposals would be happening were it not for BLM doing these actions. BLM continues to kick ass and take names.

[Number23]

58. This thread is astonishing and fairly hilarious.

The same folks acting as though the nine black folks on their Twitter feeds represent the totality of black thought are now trying to make this sound as though something horrible terrible happened here.

Now this is just one article, but nothing about this seems even remotely untoward. Nobody was hurt, Hillary didn't leave the stage, this was a crowd of HUNDREDS of genuine black folks (not 12 or 20 accompanied by hilarious and tone deaf crowing about how "memes have been destroyed&quot and BLM was able to speak their minds for what looks like several minutes before being escorted out by security. I would have loved for them to have been allowed to stay though.

There were no screams at them, no cries for them to be jailed or tasered. And it sounds as though their issues were addressed in the speech.

So all of these concern attempts in this thread, don't come across as dishonest or opportunistic at all. Not one bit.

[joshcryer]

62. This anti-BLM shit continues.

And the most fucked up part about it is that they finally got to a HRC venue which is something the anti-BLM people were most upset about that they weren't targeting HRC. Well now that they have now what? Just bullshit.

Let me reiterate: NONE OF THESE PROPOSALS WOULD BE HAPPENING WERE IT NOT FOR BLM PROTESTING.

[Number23]

65. They've targeted Hillary before. The dishonesty surrounding BLM on this web site has been

beyond idiotic from day one.

Every single word of your posts is nothing but the truth. But there are a loud group here way too invested in pretense (that BLM was a pro-Hillary/Soros-funded group, that BLM demanded Bernie "bow down" in the literal sense of the word, that they called his supporters "white supremacists," and after FINALLY understanding how deranged they looked screaming at BLM after they had their asses handed to them by the ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET for months on end, somehow concluded that BLM "endorsed" Bernie Sanders or that BLM said that "Bernie gets it and Hillary doesn't&quot to have anything resembling an honest conversation with.

Which is why so few of us even try and have long since reached the "fuck it" stage with these people. They are once again on the wrong side of justice and history and everyone knows it.

[MannyGoldstein]

33. So she wanted to Hillarysplain to them

what they "have" to do?

Same as her previous BLM meeting.

[NuclearDem]

43. I've noticed that the people who called BLM Palin sympathizers, Big Pharma tools, or Soros agents

after the Seattle protest are now apparently the movement's best friends since they're protesting Clinton.

Black lives matter. Period.

[mcar]

50. Interesting, isn't it?

[Thinkingabout]

51. Hum, it looks like the interaction between Hillary and BLM went much better than

Sanders interaction, can you explain this and explain why his way was better than the manner Hillary handled this. Maybe explaining to BLM that Sanders interaction was much better.

[Bluenorthwest]

61. Uh, they got shouted down by the crowd and dragged out by uniformed officiers to the cheers of

the audience. Not better at all, far, far worse. I bet my bottom biscuit you have never in your life taken part in any form of disruptive activism. I have. Dragged out by cops is very typical. Given the stage and allowed to call for a period of silence is rare as can be.
Dragged out by cops as the crowd cheered. That did not happen to those who interrupted Sanders nor O'Malley.

[Thinkingabout]

64. Post the correct information and I will respond, again Hillary met with the BLM group and they had

Discussion, nothing like NN or Seattle. BTW, I protest to get results, I know how to do this effectively.

[Bluenorthwest]

67. I have been part of some of the most effective and historic political actions in recent history.

Obviously you have not, you lack context, real life experience, knowledge of such actions by other groups, but you lecture away anyway and just sound nonsensical, proclaiming this and that. Hot air and cheesy gas.

As I said, you have never done the sort of thing BLM does, you sneer at it. Everyone who protests protests to get results. BLM, ACT Up have gotten results. What results have you gotten?

[Thinkingabout]

70. I get results in my protest, I know how to protest and what to do when I get the attention.

I did not sneer at BLM but I read sneers here on DU.

[Fawke Em]

52. To find out more, follow #Hillary4Who on Twitter. eom

[jfern]

53. Here the protesters are being dragged out by police

https://twitter.com/darrensands/status/660178517045420032

Nothing like that ever happened when they protested Bernie. Double standard much?

[okasha]

75. You don't have the faintest idea

what "dragged out" means do you? The BLM folks were all on their feet, and no one was injured.

[jfern]

76. Still can you imagine if that had happened at the events Bernie was speaking at?

[okasha]

77. Don't have to imagine.

Bernie supporters would still call them Palin supporters, radical fundamentalists and paid tools of Soros.

[jfern]

78. Bernie would be attacked non stop for not caring about BLM

[okasha]

82. BLM was attacked nonstop

by Sanders supporters, who also trolled and alert trolled the supposedly protected African American group.

Pretending it didn't happen doesn't help your cause.

[jfern]

83. There's a definite double standard

That people said Bernie handled the BLM protests badly and that Hillary handled yesterday well.

[okasha]

84. Bernie handled the protests badly.

At the time, he had no plan to address BLM issues. He ran away.

Hillary has such a plan in place and was in Atlanta to speak about it. The demonstrators communicated their points and were heard. The crowd who had come to hear her speak made theirs. The demonstrators were ushered out without incident. No one was "dragged."

This was, in fact, a textbook lesson in doing a peaceful protest. BLM got it exactly right, and so did law enforcement.

Bernie's audience, his DU supporters, and Bernie himself got it all wrong in Seattle. Maybe you've forgotten the shouts of "Taze them?" Or the angry screeds right here on DU about law enforcement's failure to remove the BLM women from the stage in Seattle?

Double standard, indeed.

[jfern]

85. Bernie's audience wanted him to speak

And he never got to speak in Seattle.
But for some reason that was bad, while it was good when Hillary's audience wanted to speak.
Hillary's BLM protesters didn't call anyone white supremacists.
Hillary's BLM protesters got called ignorant.
Hillary had like 3 or 4 months of more preparation for BLM.

[okasha]

86. Bernie's audience in Seattle

didn't get to hear him speak because he hightailed it off the stage.

There's a good rason why Hillary's audience didn't get called white supremacists. Most of them were Black.

[jfern]

87. No

They stopped him from speaking for 20 minutes, and then the organizers of the event said it was over.

[Fawke Em]

59. Interesting comment:

[artislife]

63. This came into my fb feed

and I was checking out the responses to this event.

One of the posters, who wasn't too pleased with the Clintons linked to this article.
http://www.theaverageblackdude.com/hey-black-folk-get-a-grip/

Not being a Clinton fan, either one any more, I quite enjoyed the read and sentiment.

[BootinUp]

66. Just goes to show how easy it is to spin a story

The question is whether the NY Daily has an axe to grind with Clinton. Isn't that a conservative rag?

[azmom]

68. More video here

http://www.buzzfeed.com/darrensands/protesters-disrupt-clinton-campaign-event-in-atlanta#.noqD2ZGK7

[Segami]

71. Thanks azmom

[Catherina]

72. The secret service forcibly escorted us out of the arena to cries of "ignorance!" and "nigger!"

https://twitter.com/_afrodiziak/status/660197817449746433


https://twitter.com/LoveMyOpinions/status/660216558443188224


https://twitter.com/Philosavery/status/660198670273482752


https://twitter.com/_iAmRoyal/status/660202719123230721

[LWolf]

73. Informative.

To say the least.

[aspirant]

74. What's to come?

Talking over people and removing their input is exactly what the people can expect from HRC

How can you listen when you won't shut up

[Lil Missy]

81. BLM should be banned from future rallys. Their goal is to shut the rally down. n/t