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

[eridani]

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

“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.”

[Kentonio]

1. A staffer gave her a black lives matter sign?! What the actual fuck?!

[eridani]

2. No, it was a Clinton sign. They just wrote Black Lives Matter on the back n/t

[Kentonio]

4. Ah ok thanks, that makes more sense

[mmonk]

3. A staffer provided the sign?

[eridani]

5. A Clinton sign. They wrote on the back of it. n/t

[Cobalt Violet]

6. Hillary's a phony

Not too shocked about this.

[Downwinder]

7. Blocked Members?

[Depaysement]

8. APEX

"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."

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

Apparently, holding up a BLM sign at a Hillary rally while black now constitutes a "violent crime pattern."

[Fantastic Anarchist]

13. Just being black is a violent crime pattern, apparently. n/t

[PonyUp]

16. Clinton thought they were super predators so they had to be brought to heel. nt

[AllyCat]

9. Why is she afraid of Black Lives Matter?

The same people tried to hang up Sanders for less.

[beedle]

18. BLM owes neither candidate their loyalty

Both candidates should have to earn the respect, not expect it.

BLM is perfectly justified in being sceptical of any and all candidates. If the reaction to questioning the user of dog whistle racist language is to treat you as a threat, then I'm guessing the message being sent is not one that will earn that reselect.

[TheBlackAdder]

20. Exactly, once they align they become compromised and open to be co-opted! nt

[MisterP]

21. exactly--one candidate's proved open and cooperative, the other says "turn yourselves

into a phone bank or the cops are here to help you GTFO"

[tblue37]

19. The difference between HRC's response to BLM protests--even those that are not even slightly disrupt

and Bernie's (and O'Malley's) even to those that are aggressively disruptive is astonishing, and doesn't do her any favors. I think of the automatic removal of quiet individuals from Trump's rallies, even though they were just sitting there and holding a sign.

[Divernan]

10. Hill casts broad net when it comes to catching "super predators".

You see, silent protest while being black, made these students threats. A prescient look at what a Clinton inaugural parade would be like - no damned signs allowed along the parade route! When she wants someone black to speak, she'll tell them. Freedom of speech has much greater limits when in the presence of Hillary. (It's in a little known footnote to the Bill of Rights!)

[jtuck004]

11. Wonder what might happen if a few scores of good people with signs flash them? It's really hard to

get white people's attention, as we have all learned these past few hundred years.

[SwampG8r]

15. As a native let me say

Getting white peoples attention often has unintended consequences.

[jtuck004]

17. There is that. But you can't give in to ol' Wankpuffin and his Strumpets.

That just juices the little brownshirts up.

And you sure can't let these people get away with it. That would be worse, I think.

[BernieforPres2016]

12. We don't really know the reasons they held up signs with "Black Lives Matter" on them

We can figure that out at some point, but first Hillary's people had to bring them to heel.

[Cheese Sandwich]

14. Huh. First bring them to heel. Her words in action is the police state.

[kgnu_fan]

22. K&R