U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke about criminal justice reform at a forum sponsored by BET. Here, Sanders takes a selfie with supporters after a campaign rally at the South Carolina Democratic Party headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina, Nov. 21, 2015

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called for criminal justice reform and discussed the Black Lives Matter movement Saturday at the BET's Presidential Justice Forum. Sanders opened his speech at the bipartisan event by listing off what he called "horrible facts."

"I’m going to start with an issue that is on everyone’s mind, the continuing struggle for racial justice in America," Sanders said, reported Fusion. Sanders then listed off a number of statistics, such as black people being imprisoned at six times the rate of white people and one out of 15 African-American men being incarcerated.

"These are shocking statistics to say the least," Sanders said. "But before we even address those, we have to deal with the most urgent and obvious issue that needs to be addressed head on. And that is the killing of African-Americans by police or deaths while in custody."

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We must address the lingering unjust stereotypes that lead us to label black youths as “thugs” and “super-predators.” 3:23 PM - 21 Nov 2015

Everyone in the audience or in the overflow at the forum had a chance to vote...

Sanders 65%

Clinton 23%

O'Malley 12%