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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts) Sun Jul 19, 2015, 02:55 AM Jul 2015

Black Lives Matter Activists Take Over Netroots Nation to Confront Martin O’Malley

Black Lives Matter activists started chanting in unison while Martin O’Malley was on stage at Netroots Nation, and two of them ended up taking the stage so the former governor could hear their concerns.

The protesters chanted about black lives and the names of black women who have died in police custody. The women who took the stage spoke about the tragedy of black lives lost, “structural racism in the United States,” and how “we are in a state of emergency.”

The activists were also on stage to confront O’Malley about his plans to deal with racial issues and out-of-control law enforcement targeting minorities.

O’Malley’s conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas got sidelined for quite a bit of time, and Vargas was really trying to keep things going so O’Malley would have enough time to address their concerns. And after they left the stage, address them he did, talking about the “pain and grief” everyone feels when anyone loses their life.

Video at link: http://www.mediaite.com/online/black-lives-matter-activists-take-over-netroots-nation-to-confront-martin-omalley/

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Black Lives Matter Activists Take Over Netroots Nation to Confront Martin O’Malley (Original Post) Cheese Sandwich Jul 2015 OP

you really think we need another thread on this? bigtree Jul 2015 #1

Why? Don't you think these protesters deserve to be heard? Cheese Sandwich Jul 2015 #3

yeah, that must be it bigtree Jul 2015 #6

O'Malley doesn't get enough attention I want to give him a boost Cheese Sandwich Jul 2015 #7

That's a good question. Renew Deal Jul 2015 #10

The whole debacle was nothing but divide and conquer at work, and PatrickforO Jul 2015 #2

Old News 99th_Monkey Jul 2015 #4

I just heard about it. Cheese Sandwich Jul 2015 #5

These protesters were there mostly to confront Martin O'Malley. Cheese Sandwich Jul 2015 #8

"mostly to confront Martin O'Malley" Renew Deal Jul 2015 #11

Cheese Sandwich provided links to articles to support what s/he is saying. nt 99th_Monkey Jul 2015 #12

O'Malley is a frequent target of #blackLivesMatter and allied protests Cheese Sandwich Jul 2015 #13

Because it isn't true. askew Jul 2015 #14

Right but the majority of protest action was directed at O'Malley Cheese Sandwich Jul 2015 #15

next up, BLM protestors confront Bernie Sanders. looking forward to yer post nt msongs Jul 2015 #9

bigtree

(85,996 posts)

1. you really think we need another thread on this?

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 02:57 AM

Jul 2015

...pathetic.

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

3. Why? Don't you think these protesters deserve to be heard?

Reply to bigtree (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:01 AM

Jul 2015

bigtree

(85,996 posts)

6. yeah, that must be it

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:06 AM

Jul 2015

...must be a dozen threads on this.

What do you really have to add except some already posted accounts of the incident? Seriously, what DO you have to add to this?

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

7. O'Malley doesn't get enough attention I want to give him a boost

Reply to bigtree (Reply #6)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:17 AM

Jul 2015

Renew Deal

(81,859 posts)

10. That's a good question.

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 07:53 AM

Jul 2015

They deserve to be heard, but I don't think they should be hijacking Democratic events and candidates.

PatrickforO

(14,574 posts)

2. The whole debacle was nothing but divide and conquer at work, and

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:01 AM

Jul 2015

the Koch brothers, the Waltons and the rest of the greed head billionaires are getting a good chuckle from it. Because it looks like we'll be dumb enough to fall for it again.

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)

4. Old News

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:03 AM

Jul 2015

Last edited Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:34 PM - Edit history (1)

Bernie says at today's rally before 12,000 peeps, including many AAs, in Pheonix.

"And like everybody in this room, I want to see an America where when young black men walk down the street they will not be harassed by police officers, they will not be killed; they will not be shot!" (Standing Ovation)

"To his credit, President Obama did something extraordinary the other day, he had the courage to go to a federal jail and talk about the absurdity of a criminal justice system in which if we don't change it 1 out of 4 male African Americans born today will end up behind bars. That is NOT the America we believe in."

"And that's why we believe it makes more sense to invest in jobs and education, not jails and incarceration!"

"And to our 11 million brothers and sisters who are living in the shadows today, we say loudly and we say clearly we are going to bring you out of the shadows and on a path toward citizenship. And we're not going to divide families up, brothers and sisters... we are the wealthiest nation in the world, there is nothing we cannot accomplish."

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

5. I just heard about it.

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:04 AM

Jul 2015

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

8. These protesters were there mostly to confront Martin O'Malley.

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:36 AM

Jul 2015

Black Lives Matter Activists Take Over Netroots Nation to Confront Martin O’Malley:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251458066

Sanders unfortunately got caught up in it too by being at the same event.

O'Malley has a long and troubled history with the black community.

He is a highly proper target for these protests since as Mayor of Baltimore he instigated a racist campaign of illegal mass arrests and civil rights abuses.

That time when the NAACP and ACLU sued Martin O'Malley over thousands of illegal arrests

As Baltimore mayor, O’Malley’s police tactics sowed distrust

"Failed the African-American community of Baltimore"

Renew Deal

(81,859 posts)

11. "mostly to confront Martin O'Malley"

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Reply #8)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 07:55 AM

Jul 2015

Where is the evidence of this? I didn't hear anything like that from them.

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)

12. Cheese Sandwich provided links to articles to support what s/he is saying. nt

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #11)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 11:58 AM

Jul 2015

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

13. O'Malley is a frequent target of #blackLivesMatter and allied protests

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #11)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 01:25 PM

Jul 2015

He can't even walk the streets of his home town without being met with angry protests.

He has a long and troubled history with the black community in Baltimore, where his policy was to illegal arrest tens of thousands of people and brutalize them.

I'm on a small phone or I would paste link. But see my other links and later I will come post more O'Malley facts.

I did read that the main target of this protest was O'Malley. Later when I get to a normal computer I will search for that and give more links, as if more evidence were actually needed considering the racist results of O'malley's mass arrests.

askew

(1,464 posts)

14. Because it isn't true.

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #11)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 01:35 PM

Jul 2015

The people involved with the protest and the movement said that it wasn't directed at one particular candidate. And O'Malley got a lot of credit for the way he, his campaign and his supporters have responded post-protest. Sanders not so much.

They said they would have interrupted Hillary had she been there too. The whole goal was to shut it down. Not to directly target one candidate.

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

15. Right but the majority of protest action was directed at O'Malley

Reply to askew (Reply #14)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 08:45 PM

Jul 2015

Including this for example

https://instagram.com/p/5SYAK6j9Au/

msongs

(67,406 posts)

9. next up, BLM protestors confront Bernie Sanders. looking forward to yer post nt

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 04:14 AM

Jul 2015

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