Bernie Sanders Pushed Off Microphone by ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters

Sanders was highly retweeted during the Fox News GOP debate, but he ran into an obstacle with Black Lives Matter activists taking his mic at a Saturday Social Security rally.

The wildly enthusiastic and overwhelmingly positive rally avoided the Vermont senator’s previous problem in Seattle.

Clinton’s meeting with the activists come one day after Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveiled a racial justice platform, which included overhauling the nation’s police departments and outlawing for-profit prisons.

Donald Trump has laid down the gauntlet to Black Lives Matter and it looks like they are picking it up. Bernie Sanders by 7 percentage points in the latest survey of New Hampshire, a Boston Herald and Franklin Pierce University poll shows. Sanders has been drawing large crowds in recent weeks, including tens of thousands of supporters over the weekend at stops in Seattle and Portland.

“No president will fight harder to end the stain of racism in this country and reform our criminal justice system – period!” He also said the Black Lives Matter tactics in Seattle were disconcerting, “especially since he (Sanders) has a history of working with black groups on civil rights issues”. “I give you, if we’re all very smart and a little bit lucky, the next president of the United States“, Silverman said as the crowd erupted in applause.

He made the comment Sunday during a trip to South Carolina when asked about his plans to restore race relations in the state in the bloody aftermath of the racially motivated massacre of Black churchgoers this summer at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.

Following a short shouting match, an organizer of the event said he would let the protesters take a turn on the microphone, but only after Sanders was allowed to speak.

Sanders pulling ahead of Clinton in the poll marks the first time that Hillary has trailed any of her Democratic rivals in the campaign for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination.

By comparison, Clinton’s biggest draw amounted to about 5,500 people, at her New York campaign kick-off in June, reports RT. “All of us were nauseated, when we have seen the videos… we know that if those folks were white they would not be dragged out of cars and thrown into jails”. People held signs like “Feel the Bern” and “Shine Bright Like A Bernie“, and there were others with “Black Lives Matters” shirts and signs.

Har reported from San Francisco.