Footage of the cops hustling out Black Lives Matter and GetEQUAL Hillary protest

[Luminous Animal]

On their FB page

https://www.facebook.com/getequal

What the organizations demand from Hillary:

http://www.getequal.org/press-releases/blm-and-getequal-call-on-clinton-to-stand-with-black-trans-women

“Hillary: Divest from Private Prisons, Invest in Black Trans Women.” The action was part of a series of demonstrations happening this week across the country celebrating black transgender women and demanding accountability for the violence that Black transgender women face on a daily basis.

“Bankrolled by private prison companies and lobbyists like Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group, Hillary Clinton is part of the system of violence that criminalizes and kills Black trans people -- how can we take her policy suggestions to curb mass incarceration and detention seriously while she’s accepting this money?” asked Angela Peoples, co-director of grassroots LGBTQ network GetEQUAL and a disruptor of the event.

Peoples continued, “These companies and their lobbyists profit from the incarceration and abuse of Black people, especially Black trans women -- an overwhelming 41% of Black trans women report having been arrested at some point in their lives, often after having been profiled by the police.”

“Hillary Clinton must stand with Black people, especially Black trans women, by refusing to accept funds from or bundled by executives of or lobbyists for private prison companies -- and investing the money she’s already accepted from those companies in the work toward Black trans liberation,” said Rian Brown, GetEQUAL state lead and local Cleveland organizer taking part in the disruption. “Until that happens, we cannot for a moment think that Hillary believes Black Lives Matter.”

http://www.getequal.org/press-releases/blm-and-getequal-call-on-clinton-to-stand-with-black-trans-women

[GitRDun]

1. Maybe I missed something

but I thought the private prison thing was de-bunked. My understanding is a bundler of HRC works for a law firm that represents those companies among many others. How do you divest from that?

Here's one article:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/23/private-prison-lobbyists-raising-cash-hillary-clinton/

She could certainly fire the bundler as he did some FOIA work for the prisons, but it hardly seems she's "invested" or being "bankrolled" by the prison companies themselves.

Maybe others know more about it than I do.

[Luminous Animal]

2. I believe they addressed that in the fourth paragraph

[GitRDun]

5. I saw that

what about the rest of the accusations? are those true?

[jfern]

3. So Sanders cedes the stage twice to BLM

and they say he was too mean. But Hillary has the cops haul them off, and they say she's the best thing ever?

[frylock]

4. kick

[Juicy_Bellows]

6. Would someone mind posting the footage?

I don't do the facebooks.

[Puzzledtraveller]

7. I'm wondering if this is going to be like a badge of honor thing.

I am being sarcastic. But playing along with, only BLM protests Sanders coupled with the Clinton campaign orchestrated it, to this was staged for the optics, will the other candidates be hoping BLM protests them too?

[Luminous Animal]

8. Kick.