Clinton scolds Trump for treatment of Black Lives Matter protester

[RandySF]

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday condemned Donald Trump’s comments about a Black Lives Matter protester who allegedly was assaulted during one of his rallies last week.

“Now he’s saying maybe it’s OK for peaceful protesters to get ‘roughed up.’ Violence is never, ever acceptable,” Clinton wrote during a Noticias Telemundo Facebook Q&A.

Clinton was referring to comments Trump made after video showed several white supporters punching and kicking a Black Lives Matter protester at a Trump event in Alabama Saturday. On Fox News on Sunday, Trump defended the treatment of the protester, saying, “Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.” He added that “it wasn’t my people if they treated him rough.”

At a campaign rally in Cleveland, Monday night, Trump continued to deflect blame, saying that it wasn't his people who dealt with the protester, but that “he was really misbehaving badly.”



http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/hillary-clinton-trump-black-lives-matter-216190#ixzz3sTjrngGJ

[Luminous Animal]

1. She just gently talks over them and has them escorted out.

[RandySF]

3. "Go ahead and tase 'em"

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Following four and half minutes of silence, Johnson brought the spotlight back to Sanders’s confrontation with Black Lives Matter at Net Roots, questioning his response and demanding “accountability” (Sanders stepped in it with BLM in July by citing his civil rights record, later giving Vox the “class trumps race” answer). She also highlighted that Sanders had yet to release a criminal justice reform plan, unlike the third—but less well known—democratic presidential contender and former govenor of Maryland Martin O’Malley (he was also present at the Net Roots conference disruption). The crowd greeted the speechifying with roars of boos. In the background, the Selma soundtrack hit “Glory” by Common and John Legend played over the PA while Sanders attempted to get back to the microphone. Willaford blocked him.

Washington CAN organizer Xochitl Maykovich attempted to establish order, taking the mic and telling everyone to “take a deep breath” and then giving a spiel about the incarceration of black males in America. But any hope for dialogue was lost under a barrage of ugly outbursts like “Go ahead and tase em” and “You narcissistic bitches” from members of the crowd while Johnson and Willaford began arguing heatedly with Maykovich. Sanders eventually left the stage, making his way through the crowd as he shook hands before getting into a car and leaving a highly charged and emotional scene of arguments between Black Lives Matter protesters and dedicated Sanders fans.

“What I think is too bad is there wasn’t any opportunity for a reasonable dialogue. We would have been happy if we had been contacted. If these folks wanted to talk to Senator Sanders, we would have been happy to facilitate that,” Robby Stern told reporters following Sanders’s departure.


http://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2015/8/10/black-lives-matter-protestors-shut-down-bernie-sanders-speech-at-westlake

[Cha]

8. Thank you for that, RSF~

[Dawson Leery]

2. Trump is the ideal GOP candidate. He is a fascist. The GOP is fascist.

[aidbo]

4. Trump is the id of the Republican Party telling their base everything it wants to hear.

[riversedge]

5. As Charles Pierce says-I am glad we have Obama in the WH & IMHO-glad Madam President

will follow in his footsteps (although he does not agree with the No -fly zone).

[AgingAmerican]

6. The Clintons are buddies with Trump

Lemme guess, she told her longtime pal to 'knock it off'?

[Cha]

7. HAHA.. laughing at the futile attempts by some of the usual BS fans to take a Dump on a

positive Hillary thread.

So predictable like ******* Clockwork. They can't help themselves.. not even worth engaging.

[NurseJackie]

9. +1

[Jamaal510]

10. This type of behavior

might be OK during the GOP primaries, but beware Mr.Trump: enrage non-white voters, and you'll pay.