Georgia State students say they were bounced from Clinton rally over "Black Lives Matter" sign

[Cheese Sandwich]

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution

“I was on my phone and when I looked up Ashona was gone,” Mwanda said. “She wasn’t loud. She wasn’t chanting. I just looked up and she was gone. A few moments later, someone came for me.”

The students said staffers and men with green military-type uniforms and bullet proof vests took the students in the hall and, according to both of them, told them that their signs and messages were inappropriate and that they would have to leave.

Elizabeth Espy of the APD said the students were escorted out by plain clothes officers. She said the men in uniform were members of the Atlanta Proactive Enforcement Interdiction (APEX) Unit.

“I wasn’t being violent or disruptive,” Husbands said. “I am an undecided voter. Hillary Clinton says that black lives matter, but when she speaks about the black community, she kind of glosses over it. I wanted her to see the sign and look at me. I wanted her to say something to win me over. The ironic thing is that the staffer gave me the sign in the first place. If they hadn’t given it to us,  I would not have written it down.”

Read more: http://m.ajc.com/news/news/national-govt-politics/georgia-state-students-bounced-clinton-rally-over-/nqYrd/

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With special thanks and hat tip:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511350265

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The orders to eject these students had to have come from the Clinton campaign or event staff. Journalists should follow up and view the police reports to find exactly who requested they be kicked out.

[Cassiopeia]

1. Wow.

I really don't know how to respond to this.

[elljay]

2. Ooh, they look really scary!

What did the security think they would do? Upset Hillary with their smiles?

[tularetom]

3. The Atlanta Proactive Enforcement Interdiction Unit?

Where the fuck are we? Stalinist Russia? Or worse?

[Cheese Sandwich]

4. We certainly have more people in jail

[napi21]

6. What in the hell is the Atlanta Proactive Interdiction Unit? I live in Ga.

about 40 miles north of the airport and I never heard of this unit!

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Here, from the Atlanta PD website

A.P.E.X.

The mission of the Atlanta Proactive Enforcement Interdiction (A.P.E.X.) Unit is to identify violent crime patterns utilizing analytical data. To deploy and prevent violent crime and arrest the most violent criminals who are involved in this behavior.
Atlanta Police Department
A.P.E.X. Unit
226 Peachtree St SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Office: 404-546-6922

http://www.atlantapd.org/specialenforcement.aspx

So my next OBVIOUS question is what the fuck was a unit used to arrest violent criminals doing in there? Hmmm anybody has some tinfoil?

[DUbeornot2be]

11. On watch...

...for superpredators who might convince superdelegates to rethink supertuesday...

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. I truly wish you were kidding

[DUbeornot2be]

13. I put the...

...last two episodes together...

She's obviously not too concerned about convincing commoners with all this elitist behavior... That it's escalating in disgust really makes me think she's more concerned with impressing Trump supporters or something... Hmmm?

Any scandals needing a nice smokescreen from her firewall?

...the top-secret emails that were redacted and then not released perhaps?

I don't think the people will be fooled this time.

Bernie cares about all of us!

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. It is uglier than that actually

but if I actually say the words crossing my mind here...

[nxylas]

21. Since when does Interdiction begin with X?

Someone needs to sic the Grammar Police on them.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. You go right ahead

you got a dictionary, a thesaurus and a style manual. They got well... be my guest

[billhicks76]

27. Thought Crimes

Truly Orwellian. The racists eat it up.

[tularetom]

10. I have no clue but it sounds like something you should be very afraid of

[jtuck004]

35. AKA - The Black Lives Interdiction Unit - n/t

[napi21]

5. I live in Ga. and I'm angry that this happened here.

I'm not Black, but I am also angry with the way so many Blacks have bee very mistreated. all across the Country. To hear that this happened at a Hillary campaign stop reminds me of how the goons kept all the protesters away from GWB! They st u fenced in areas, far from his speeches for all the protesters, and even made3 sure HE didn't have to see them. I really never believed that would happen with any Dem candidate, much less Hillary who's supposed to have spent her entire life fighting for fairness and racial equality. I'm very disappointed. I say we try to make sure this info gets spread all over Ga. because we vote on March 1st, which is only FOUR DAYS AWAY!

[billhicks76]

28. Ray McGovern

It's similar. I thought only Trump did this. Not.

[Geronimoe]

7. Hillary; "We will bring them to heel"

These must be the super predators that Hillary talked about.... because they are young blacks. Just imagine how frightened Hilllary and her elite white supporters are, when Ashley showed up to ask for an apology. NO ONE ever questions Hillary, especially a young black woman.


The mission of the Atlanta Proactive Enforcement Interdiction (A.P.E.X.) Unit is to identify violent crime patterns utilizing analytical data. To deploy and prevent violent crime and arrest the most violent criminals who are involved in this behavior.

Atlanta Police Department
A.P.E.X. Unit
226 Peachtree St SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Office: 404-546-6922

[LovingA2andMI]

8. Let's Guess...

Are these look like very nice Young Women -- who happen to be African-American - with a sign that does not in the least look threatening -- are the folks that Hillary believes should be "Brought to Heel" by the Secret Service?

But On To Better News -- The Niece of Rosa Parks - Rhea McCauley is strongly supporting Bernie Sanders for the upcoming March 8 Michigan Primary AND had very kind words for Erica Garner -- the Daughter of the Late Eric Garner who has been harassed on Twitter by some Hillary Supporters for her endorsement of Bernie Sanders.

She said Ms. Garner stands in the shadow of her Aunt Rosa Parks, who would have in Ms. McCauley opinion, supported Bernie Sanders also.

The Link to Our Podcast Interview with Ms. McCauley is here.

[Major Hogwash]

15. This is getting to become a regular occurance with Hillary.

When will people wake up and realize that she doesn't care?

[retrowire]

17. wtf are you seriously comparing blm to westboro baptist church?!?!

last time I checked, BLM didn't want anyone to die or suffer eternal damnation. they just want to be heard. they just want society to stop turning a blind eye to racial injustice.

westboro baptist church?? you should really rethink that comparison.

[LovingA2andMI]

18. Umm...What?

Really, this is way out of line.....

[MH1]

43. Don't worry, that one's gone.

Apparently EarlG read that the same way we all did.

The amazing thing is that 2 people voted to leave that post.

I wonder if the admins will be taking a closer look at those posters too. I mean, wow.

[SoapBox]

19. And this appearance was moved...

Saw earlier today (if anyone can find it) that it was to be held at a college but got moved to city hall...it seemed that it was mostly so that the campaign could "control" problems before they got in...hint, hint.

[840high]

24. I can't find it but

I saw it, too.

[Wibly]

20. Doesn't surprise me

I got blocked from a Hilary Clinton thread here simply for challenging the content of a post. I wasn't rude, didn't call names, nothing like that. I simply challenged the validity of their claims.
Clinton clearly has issues with critical review, and responds like a GOPer.

[bvf]

26. They're still working toward that

two-to-one ratio of blocked users to actual subscribers.

[billhicks76]

29. They Did To Everyone

Truth hurts them.

[Feeling the Bern]

32. I got blocked from their club for daring to ask about her Goldwater support

and her support ending Glass-Stegall. HRC supporters are on the defensive these days because they have to defend the indefensible on a forum of liberal and progressive posters, even though their candidate is not either of those things.

She's a proud Goldwater Girl who loves her some Henry Kissinger.

[Downwinder]

33. Must be a DU A.P.E.X. Unit.

[Nyan]

23. MLK: The greatest stumbling block to justice is "white moderates."

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]," 16 April 1963
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

MLK's message is so much more radical and clear-headed than most people think. His words perfectly capture what we're seeing today when it comes to how the "white moderates" and mostly-white corporate media treat black people when they don't know their place and dare get in the way of "white moderates' timetable" as to how and when changes should take place and by whom.
Like Ms. Williams, and these young women, or Melissa Harris-Perry (who, I guess, talked too much about BLM movement to the point of sounding strident to MSNBC management) -all of them being hissed and thrown out of sight for disrupting their "negative peace." That's how they keep their "order," I guess. Rather than "justice."

"I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"

Hillary Clinton might as well be saying that to these women.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

30. +1 well stated n/t

[Uncle Joe]

25. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Cheese Sandwich.

[pdsimdars]

31. So many are fooled by the Clintons

I don't understand why so many are fooled by the Clintons. It's like we all wonder how poor people can ever vote Republican, because they are voting against their own interests.
Same with the Clintons, why would anyone who is not in the 1% vote for them? They talk one thing and behind the scenes do the opposite.
Example . . . Wages have remained stagnant since the 80s. 8 years of Bill Clinton did nothing for that and neither did 8 years of Obama. Working Americans got the same wages. They had 16 years to DO SOMETHING, but they didn't. Oh, for sure, the rich got richer and the corporations too. THEY got help but WE didn't. If you think another corporate Democrat (read Hillary Clinton) is really going to change that, you are living in a fantasy world. The facts are all there, a vote for Hillary is a vote AGAINST yourself and your family (unless you are the 1%)

[jalan48]

34. Hillary totally supports POC-got it?? No more questions or signs allowed. Got it??

Quick, shove a baby in her face so she can smile for the camera.

[redruddyred]

36. i attended one of her events

and was thoroughly searched by the ss for looking like an angry dyke

(i have a chronic pain and metabolic problem which prevents me from growing it out my hair)

the black ss guy was nice and happily nonjudgmental. yay diversity.

[NobodyHere]

37. Let me get this right

A group with a history of disrupting political events isn't welcome at a political event?

I'm shocked!

[Bluenorthwest]

38. Equality activists unwelcome at events by politicians who claim to own and operate equality under

exclusive license? Not shocked at all, I am old enough to remember the way Bill Clinton treated ACT UP protesters who disrupted his events as candidate, protesters who in some cases died the same month Bill took office, terminally ill people who bravely stood up only to be shouted at and finger pointed by Bill.

[awoke_in_2003]

40. Freedom of speech

is so inconvenient

[Lizzie Poppet]

39. To some, black lives only matter when they can secure you the nomination.

Even when they're doing so in states that will never go blue in November...

[Babel_17]

41. Bad judgement, if the Clinton campaign had any say

Might not be on them, or maybe it is and it was thought this primary season was in the bag, it's time to focus on the optics.

Time to pull a Sanders, and directly engage with BLM, and maybe bring a BLM veteran on board to a visible position, and with access to Secretary Clinton.

Needless to say, this doesn't end with hauling away BLM protesters.

[azmom]

42. Kick