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Related: About this forumNot first disruptive tactic for activist who shut down Bernie Sanders’ speech
You guys are a bunch of fascists, said Marissa Johnson, pointing her finger at the council members.
Saying she wanted to make them as uncomfortable as they had made her, she then led members of the audience behind her in chants of Hands Up: Dont Shoot and Black Lives Matter, both growing mantras in the national movement protesting police shootings of unarmed black men.
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A couple of weeks later, Johnson was invited to appear on a panel discussing body cameras, organized by the Community Police Commission. She, along with a fellow panelist, was identified as a member of a group called Outside Agitators 206, which on its website calls for an end to police terror and the slavery that is the prison system.
At the panel, Johnson said she wanted to get rid of all police, whom she labeled abusive and authoritarian. And she called the discussion of body cameras a farce.
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(2,674 posts)I saw two shows on MSNBC last night that defended Marissa Johnson's disruption of meetings. The reason being is that she got her message on the candidate's agenda. To me, she and her followers are like spoiled children who throw a tantrum to get their way. And the candidates are like weak parents who give in to a child's tantrum. If she had a strong message and a good presentation, she would not have to resort to such tactics. Instead, she spouts half truths and nonsense. She is causing people to lose respect for the BLM movement.
Triana
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(39,215 posts)because they put the issue on their agenda. I suspect that Bernie is as upset by the police brutality and mass incarceration as a lot of good people are. As many here on DU are. He has himself protested similar issues in the past so he has some respect for the very idea of protesting.
So despite their screaming and yelling he heard what they wanted. He actually heard it at the NN protest. I understand that he started working on his plan to bring change right after that protest and that is how he met Symone Sanders the criminal law expert he has hired as his spokes person.
He agrees with the need for social justice. He has added it to his program because he believes in it. Not because someone screamed and yelled. Because someone thought it was okay to push him around. Because they called him and his supporters names. This is Bernie Sanders the activist.
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