Tuesday, August 18, 2015

#BlackLivesMatter Activists Confront Hillary Clinton on Incarceration


The Boston arm of the Black Lives Matter movement has released video of its recent private meeting with Hillary Clinton.

In the exchange, a portion of which appeared exclusively on MSNBC Monday, Clinton was asked about mass incarceration, racial tensions and crime legislation passed under her husband's administration. 

In the exchange, a portion of which appeared exclusively on MSNBC Monday, Clinton was asked about mass incarceration, racial tensions and crime legislation passed under her husband's administration.

The former secretary of state defended her record, saying, "I've spent most of my adult life focused on kids, through the Children's Defense Fund and other efforts to try to give kids — particularly poor kids, particularly, you know, black kids and Hispanic kids — the same chance to live up to their own God-given potential as any other kid." 

Full article and video available here: #BlackLivesMatter Confronts Clinton 

Source: NBC News

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