Klobuchar cancels campaign rally after protests (BLM)

The Hill ^ | 03 01 2020 | John Bowden

[yesthatjallen]

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) canceled a campaign rally in St. Louis Park, Minn., on Sunday after protesters reportedly affiliated with Black Lives Matter and other civil rights groups took the stage at her event for over an hour.

In a statement obtained by The New York Times, Klobuchar's campaign said the senator offered to meet with demonstrators in exchange for them exiting the stage and allowing her rally to proceed, adding that the protesters initially agreed to such terms before reportedly backing out and refusing to leave the stage.

“The campaign offered a meeting with the senator if they would leave the stage after being on the stage for more than an hour,” a spokesperson for the Klobuchar campaign told the Times. “After initially agreeing, the group backed out, and we are now canceling the event.”

The campaign did not immediately return a request for further comment from The Hill.

Klobuchar has faced calls to suspend her campaign from Black Lives Matter and NAACP activists over her role in the criminal prosecution of Myon Burrell, an African American man who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison while still a teenager. Klobuchar was the lead attorney in the county at the time of his initial trial, and she later denied a request for him to attend his mother's funeral after he was imprisoned.

Burrell's case has become a point of criticism for Klobuchar's campaign, as many including the victim's father believe he may have been wrongfully convicted.

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[yesthatjallen]

No Democratic candidate can pass every ideological purity test with every liberal subgroup.

Intersectionality is a pipe dream.

[2banana]

Identity politics consumes its host...

Excellent!!!!!

[dp0622]

I would make sure there were 100 Italians with bats at every one of my campaign speeches.

They’d have to have a cool name to represent them as a group though.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Eating their own, doesn’t get better than this.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Bat Boys

[Persevero]

How about “Goombas” ?

[KC Burke]

Amy Coldsore is out soon.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I’m confident the irony of the situation is lost on her.

And the rest of her socialist brethren running for the presidency.

[Army Air Corps]

Paisan Lives Matter?

[alexander_busek]

I would make sure there were 100 Italians with bats at every one of my campaign speeches. They’d have to have a cool name to represent them as a group though.

How about "The Bronx Story Batters?"

(That was a pretty good film!)

Regards,

[SunkenCiv]

• Sen. Tim Kaine endorses Joe Biden before key primary elections

[cgbg]

Amy loves to brag that black folks luv her....

Hahahahahahaha!

(see my tagline)

[A_Former_Democrat]

Hello, America

I’m Amy Klobuchar

And I can’t even beat BLM

[rlmorel]

The Paisan Pounders?

[R_Kangel]

.... As it says in the the Good Book in: Galatians 6:7 ..... "God is not mocked: for whatsoever a person soweth, that shall they also reap.

[Zathras]

If you can’t control a rally in your own town surrounded by your supporters, you are not a leader.
You are a follower.

[SecondAmendment]

Someone needs to tell her having two X chromosomes is not in it self enough to run for President...

[PghBaldy]

I wonder if Sanders is behind this? People protested Bloomberg recently too.

[Steven Tyler]

I smell 0bama at work

[RonnG]

Trump would have those assholes out of there in a NY minute