Thursday, March 28, 2024

Black Lives Matter Protesters Shut Down Bernie Sanders Rally (WATCH)

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*Things continue to get interesting on the Black Lives Matter front.

Saturday afternoon in Seattle, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders found himself in what’s being described as a “chaotic confrontation” with a pair of Black Lives Matter protesters, who bum rushed the stage and wouldn’t let him speak.

Sanders, an independent Senator from Vermont, was going to be the main attraction at a Westlake Park rally to celebrate the 80th birthday of Social Security and the success of other anti-poverty programs.

However, as we alluded to, things didn’t work out that way and his speech was cancelled. In essence, the protestors won a victory of sorts by turning attention to today’s anniversary of the shooting by a white police officer of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

Via the Seattle Times:

“If you do not listen … your event will be shut down,” one of the protesters told organizers, who offered to let them speak after Sanders. After a back and forth with the screaming protesters, organizers relented and said the demonstrators could go first.

Some in the largely white audience booed and chanted for protesters to let the senator talk. A few yelled for police to make arrests.

Marissa Johnson, one of the protesters, shot back, “I was going to tell Bernie how racist this city is, filled with its progressives, but you did it for me,” accusing the audience of “white supremacist liberalism.” She cited Seattle’s own police problems, including an ongoing Justice Department consent decree over use of force.

Later in the evening, in front of an estimated 15,000 supporters, Sanders received the reception he’d expected from the Seattle area as the progressive alternative to Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Read the FULL story at Seattle Times.

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