Bill Clinton fires back at Black Lives Matter: You're defending the people who take black lives
Former President Bill Clinton defended his 1994 crime bill after Black Lives Matter activists interrupted his campaign speech.
Clinton, campaigning in Philadelphia Thursday on behalf of his wife's presidential bid, was heckled by several members of the audience, one of whom carried a sign reading "Black youth are not super predators," reflecting a comment made in 1996 by Hillary Clinton.
The Black Lives Matter movement has been critical of the crime bill, enacted during the Clinton administration, which it says led to a disproportionate number of African-Americans being imprisoned for non-violent offenses.
In a forceful, 13-minute response to the protesters' objections to the crime bill, Clinton said the bill lowered the national crime rate, diversified police forces and achieved bipartisan support.
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"Hillary didn't vote for that bill, because she wasn't in the Senate," Clinton said.
"She was spending her time trying to get health care for poor kids. Who were they? And their lives mattered."
In April 2015, Hillary Clinton called for an overhaul of the nation's criminal justice system, which would have dismantled her husband's crime bill.
Speaking in response to racial protests in Baltimore at the time, she called for an "end to the era of mass incarceration."
Her presidential campaign has also been marked by protest by Black Lives Matter activists; in an October 2015 speech in Atlanta, after interruptions by hecklers, she promised to end racial profiling by law enforcement, and end the sentencing disparity between cocaine and crack.
Bill Clinton vs. #BLM activists at a rally
Bill Clinton Accuses Black Lives Matter Protesters of Defending Murderous Drug Dealers
Former President Bill Clinton responds to Black Lives Matter activists who interrupted a campaign event for his wife in Philadelphia.
Clinton angrily tells Black Lives Matter protesters that they "are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter."
"See these other signs? This is what’s the matter. I don't know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out into the street to murder other African American children. Maybe you thought they were good citizens. [Hillary Clinton] didn’t. She didn’t. You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter! Tell the truth!"
Bill, America's first black president and still enormously popular among blacks, apparently sees #BLM for what it is, the political arm of the gangs of criminals who want no policing of black neighborhoods.
They want to keep cops out so they can own those streets, and they want shorter sentences and clemency and most certainly not law and order.
Supporters of Bernie and the riot ideology are attacking him for these "tone deaf" remarks, now, as well as on the underlying issues of policing and crime.
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