Black Lives Matter protesters shut down Bernie Sanders speech

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Aug 8, 2015.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Should this be viewed as a positive or negative?

    Black Lives Matter protesters shut down Bernie Sanders speech
    http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...er-protesters-shut-down-bernie-sanders-rally/

    Black Lives Matter interrupted the planned speech for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at Westlake Park on Saturday afternoon. Sanders left without addressing the crowd.

    A Seattle speech by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was preempted in a chaotic confrontation Saturday afternoon with Black Lives Matter protesters, who took the stage and refused to let him speak.


    After speeches by Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and state Sen. Pramila Jayapal at the Westlake Park rally for Social Security, a handful of protesters walked onto the stage and grabbed the microphone.

    “If you do not listen to us, your event will be shut down,” one of the protesters told organizers, who relented and said they could speak before Sanders.

    Some in the mostly white audience booed and hissed as they urged protesters to let the senator talk. A few yelled for police to make arrests. One activist on stage replied the Seattle crowd was proving they were “white supremacist liberals.”

    After denouncing the crowd, the activists demanded 4 ½ minutes of silence in memory of Michael Brown, the black man shot to death by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri a year ago. While rally organizers stood and raised their hands in support, some in the crowd yelled profanities.


    After the few minutes of silence, the protesters said they wanted to hold Sanders accountable for failing to address their concerns when he was similarly interrupted at a town hall for liberal activists in Phoenix last month.

    The Westlake protesters refused to let Sanders take the microphone, prompting rally organizer Robby Stern to say the event was over, and that the demonstrators were determined to stop it.

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  2. People who annoy you...
     
  3. loyek590

    loyek590

    you have to be a minority to understand it.
     
  4. It's difficult to give an answer on this, since Thug behavior is completely irrational.
     
  5. Max E.

    Max E.


    LOL, very few people are going to get that joke. :D
     
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  6. Max E.

    Max E.

    LOL, listen to how "reasonable" the harpie who is screaming in Bernie's face sounds, never thought id see the day where i actually felt sympathetic to a moron like Bernie Sanders.

    These people are self important jackasses, who think that this is their version of Selma, while in reality, one of the smallest problems the black community is facing is aggressive policing. If you are a black person, you are about as likely to die at the hands of a crooked cop, as you are to be struck by lightning, but this is the number 1 cause on these idiots agenda.

    These monsters are too fucking stupid to realise that all they are doing is eliminating any person who might have been sympathetic to their cause by acting like a bunc of idiots.

     
  7. The left created the beast, now they can deal with the beast. They have minimized and excused all the savage behavior. They have bent over backwards trying to explain why these animals act how they act. They have maligned all the decent black people while they glorify the thugs. Enjoy the fruits of your labor.
     
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  8. Naggers?
     
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  9. Arnie

    Arnie

    Wow. Bernie can't even handle some hecklers. How presidential.
     
  10. You are right. They are a bunch of animals, without a brain cell between their ears. And this is where our ObamaCare goes? Makes me wanna vomit.
     
    #10     Aug 9, 2015