Clinton meets Black Lives Matter activists shut out of event
US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has met with Black Lives Matter activists who had been shut out of an event in New Hampshire.
The Boston-area activists had planned to protest the Democratic hopeful’s Tuesday appearance at a substance abuse forum in Keene, New Hampshire, that afternoon, the Hill reported.
The activists argued that Clinton backed policies “which instituted draconian penalties for drug possession and abuse at the same time they funnel money away from anti-poverty programs and into hyper-militarization of urban police forces and the institution of white supremacist police profiling policies.”
According to Nick Merrill, a spokesman for a Clinton, the Black Lives Matter protesters were shut out due to lack of capacity at the venue.
Reports said five members of the group were not allowed into the forum by US Secret Police.
The meeting took 15 minutes, according to Daunasia Yancey, the founder of Black Lives Matter in Boston.
"We did have a couple of particular questions that we wanted to ask her, and we were able to do so, and she was able to respond," Yancey told reporters after the meeting. "We asked the secretary about her and her family's history with the war on drugs both at home and abroad and how she felt about her involvement in that violence that has been perpetuated, especially against communities of color and against black folks."
According to Yancey, Clinton vowed for a “political” response, yet admitting “There are policies that she has been a part of promoting that have not worked."
The killing of several unarmed black men by white police officers in recent months, and decisions by grand juries not to indict the officers, has triggered large-scale Black Lives Matter protests across country.
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