"How violent the organizers and Bernie Sanders was." BLM activist speaks

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64. Somewhere- I forget since there have been so many threads

The three main BLM leaders were contacted for comment, 1 supported her, 1 acknowledged that she was a member and told everyone to stop bugging her about it, and the last was at the Netroots disruption and possibly planned it.

I called often for BLM leadership clarity on this issue, and the clarity we got was (paraphrasing) "Ya, so what? This is what we're doing."

Their moves up until Seattle disrupted my own equality activism work, so I'm ignoring them. Also, I've seen this sort of thing before when I was outside the US, and it gets pretty ugly fast.

Edit: GoogleFu got me this, and it's pretty clearcut and more or less what I remember seeing. Apologies if it is a source DU doesn't like, I rarely post articles outside of the very Mainstream, and usually just for proof of quote:

http://deadstate.org/blacklivesmatter-embraces-seattle-activists-deny-they-demanded-an-apology-to-bernie-sanders/

But apparently, the connections between Johnson, Jacqueline, and the group Outside Agitators 206 to the BLM movement are not as unclear as we believed. Posting on her Facebook page today, the Los Angeles co-founder of BLM Patrisse Marie Cullors-Brignac openly embraced the Seattle activists and defended them against attacks from bloggers and the media:

Mara Jacqueline and Marissa Jenae deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. They are [a part] of BLM. I support them in their leadership. Please discontinue harming them through social media. If you have questions about what Black Lives Matter’s does. Please message me. I’m tired of folks not being principled or just hateful for no good reason.

“BLM did not circulate a petition asking for an apology,” she added, referring to a petition on Change.org which many assumed was evidence of “the real” BLM distancing itself from the Seattle event. “We are not circulating articles that are slandering these women’s names. Cut this sh*t out, yall.”

A post on the long-established BLM Facebook page (on which we assume Cullors-Brignac is an administrator) echoed this same sentiment:

The #BlackLivesMatter organization did not create any petitions demanding apology from Seattle based organizers. We have…

Posted by Black Lives Matter on Sunday, August 9, 2015