Black Lives Matter protesters shut down Sanders event in Seattle

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/08/politics/bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter-protesters/


Bernie Sanders came to Seattle on Saturday for two events. His first, a rally on Social Security in downtown Seattle, never happened.

Seconds after Sanders took the stage, a dozen protesters from the city's Black Lives Matter chapter jumped barricades around the stage and grabbed the microphone from the senator. Holding a banner that said "Smash Racism," two of the protesters -- Marissa Janae Johnson and Mara Jacqeline Willaford, the co-founders of the chapter -- began to address the crowd.

"You are never going to hear Bernie speak if I don't hear silence now," said Johnson, adding later, "Now that you've covered yourself in your white supremacist liberalism, I will formally welcome Bernie Sanders to Seattle."

...To sustained boos from the audience that assembled to see Sanders, Johnson demanded that the senator take action on saving black lives and called on him to release his plans to reform policing...

"Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity," he said then. "But if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people."

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1. Is this story mixing up two events?

"Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity," he said then. "But if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people."

That sounds like netroots if my memory is working correctly, and I have a hard time believing that he repeated the same words twice.

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2. The OP left out the previous paragraph

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3. Ah...yeah...I see the pivot now...thanks. (nt)