BLM leader physically removed from mayoral debate, suggests race played a factor: video
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A Black Lives Matter leader in Los Angeles was forcibly removed from an arena where mayoral candidates were holding a debate, spurring social media backlash.
pic.twitter.com/QWAKcY3hKq Today I attempted to watch the mayoral debate held on the campus where I’ve taught for 20 years. As I waited for it to start, the white @PBI director called the police on me. He and each of the candidates watched as I was brutally removed. @CalStateLA pic.twitter.com/cjihRrwtJq .@elonmusk is a racist, who owns @Tesla, where Black employees are regularly called the n-word and their workplace is named "the slave house" by supervisors. When he buys @Twitter, #HateSpeech is sure to be mislabeled as #FreeSpeech and enabled. https://t.co/rGB7ZYQXul
"Debates should be public ... especially at a public university," Abdullah said in a statement to the outlet, noting there was only a small attendance at the "near-empty theater."
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