Hillary Clinton Speech Interrupted By Black Student Activists

Hillary Clinton Speech Interrupted By Black Student Activists. Your Thoughts?

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton was drowned out by student activists while introducing her criminal justice reform platform in Atlanta on Friday.

According to a transcript of Clinton's remarks released by her campaign, the candidate was interrupted at one point by audience members saying, "Black lives matter."

“And yes, they do," Clinton responded. "Yes, they do. Yes, they do, and I'm going to talk a lot about that in a minute.”

The protests appear to be organized in part by historically black colleges in the Atlanta University Center Consortium, which represents Spelman College, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University and the Interdenominational Theological Center. The movement calls itself the AUC Shut It Down coalition. An affiliated Twitter account posted a statement Friday afternoon saying, "We charge the administration, law enforcement, and collective student bodies of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) for the multiple offenses committed against black and brown lives."

The account subsequently posted a number of videos with people on the scene. In one video, a man says, "We're not going to allow for Hillary to come here and have a cookie-cutter black conversation and to exploit ... black production for her vote."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-black-activists-atlanta_5633c569e4b [login to see] d96?ir=Politics%253Fncid%253Dnewsltushpmg00000003