“You know which candidate for president will shut down the private prison industry”, she said, according to CNN.
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Senator Bernie Sanders will speak tonight at the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena as he continues his campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
Black Lives Matter protesters disrupted and shut down a rally for Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Seattle, but the motivation is a bit head-scratching.
Sanders eventually left the Saturday afternoon event at Seattle’s Westlake Park without giving his speech. The Central District, a historically Black neighborhood in Seattle, has undergone rapid gentrification over the past few decades, with Black people being displaced from the only neighborhood that we could legally live in until just years ago. When he finally did take the stage, protestors stormed the stage and took command of the microphone immediately pointing out Sanders as being accountable for not doing anything to address police brutality as well as the other issues on their agenda.
After about 20 minutes, “Sanders himself was pushed away when he tried to take the microphone back”, KOMO reports.
Sanders left the stage and waded into the dense crowd as Neil Young’s “Keep On Rockin’ in the Free World” blared on the center’s speakers.
Sanders later issued a press release on his web site expressing his disappointment concerning the interruption. Some of the crowd, which was attending an event called “Social Security Works”, was audibly restless as the protesters spoke, with some people chanting: “Let Bernie speak”.
But he did react nearly immediately to the intimidation by the Black Lives Matter protest. “You’re never gonna hear Bernie speak unless I hear it silent in here now”.
Symone Sanders introduced her new boss, saying “it’s important that we say the words ‘Black Lives Matter, ‘ but it’s also important we have people in political office who are going to turn those words into action”.
The divide is likely to be a problem for the Democratic Party, whose presidential candidates tend to be old and white.
And they were none too polite about it. They weren’t masking a request – they were screaming a demand.
However, it’s important that presidential candidates on both sides strike a balance and find the secret sauce to connect with the voting public – now more than ever. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., waves to greet the crowd before speaking at a rally Saturday, August 8, 2015, in downtown Seattle.
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“Bringing people together” is at the core of Sanders campaign, he said, which is evident by the vast crowds that continue to gather.
