#BlackLivesMatter members filmed their meeting with Clinton, however, and plan to put the video out.
Some details in this article of the meeting--primarily from BLM perspective but it does say they filmed it so we will see.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/11/politics/hillary-clinton-new-hampshire-black-lives-matter-2016/index.html
.............The #BlackLivesMatter members filmed their meeting with Clinton, however, and plan to put the video out.
Julius Jones, the head of #BlackLivesMatter Worcester, said after the meeting with Clinton that he felt both parities got something out of it.
"She got something out of the meeting. That much is certain," he said. "I feel like what we got out of the meeting was to actually press her in a very real way -- probably in a way that she hasn't been pressed in a long time about not only her role as a presidential candidate, but her role as first lady, senator and secretary of state."
Jones added, "What it seemed like was, and what she did say was that, she would want to take more the angle of changing more systemic things and looking for and wanting policy reforms that were palatable that she could package and sell. Right? But as far as the arena of the heart, she was not willing to go there."
In a criminal justice speech earlier in her campaign, Clinton had called for punishments outside of prison for non-violent drug crimes and for police officers to wear body cameras. It's a reversal from the 1990s criminal sentencing reforms that her husband, then-President Bill Clinton, had signed into law, which increased mass incarceration. ....................
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I would like the whole video-nothing edited
BlackLivesMatterBOS ?@BLM_Boston 14h14 hours ago
We were approached by @HillaryClinton's staff & offered an opportunity to ask the questions we planned to ask in the forum #HollupHillary
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This was our 1st question. 15 minute conversation followed. We'll release video as soon as we're able.
#HollupHillary
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At the end of this article it says BLM will release a video of the meeting.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton meeting with Black Lives Matter activists during a closed-door meeting in New Hampshire on Tuesday. (Photo: Twitter/BlackLivesMatterBOS ?@BLM_Boston)
Published on Wednesday, August 12, 2015
by Common Dreams
Clinton Campaign Shuts Down Black Lives Matter Protest
After being given advanced warning of possible protest, a "respectful" closed-door meeting results instead
by
Jon Queally, staff writer
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton meeting with Black Lives Matter activists during a closed-door meeting in New Hampshire on Tuesday. (Photo: Twitter/BlackLivesMatterBOS ?@BLM_Boston)
After The New Republic on Tuesday preemptively reported that a small number of Black Lives Matter activists were on their way to a Hillary Clinton campaign stop in Keene, New Hampshire, the potential protest against the leading Democratic presidential candidate never took place because security at the event barred the group entry.
Instead of having the opportunity to confront Clinton in a public setting—such as those recently faced by candidate Bernie Sanders—the five activists from Massachusetts, including Black Lives Matter Boston founder Daunasia Yancey, were ushered into an overflow room to watch the event and later treated to a closed-door meeting with Clinton to which reporters were not allowed.
According to TNR:
When they arrived at today’s Clinton event, which focused on substance abuse and the heroin epidemic, after first sharing their talking points and questions exclusively with the New Republic, the activists found the entrances closed by U.S. Secret Service who said the venue was at capacity. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who was in contact with the five activists, later told the New Republic that the activists were eventually let into an “overflow room.” Following the event, Clinton met with the group for about 15 minutes in a private meeting that they claim turned contentious at times, and featured Clinton giving unsolicited advice for the direction of the movement.
The group's remarks and questions varied a bit from the script they prepared, which focused on criminal justice policies Clinton had supported while her husband was president, but not in tone. "I asked specifically about her and her family's involvement in the War on Drugs at home and abroad, and the implications that has had on communities of color and especially black people in terms of white supremacist violence," Yancey told me in an interview after the meeting. "And I wanted to know how she felt about her involvement in those processes.” ........
