'You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter'

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[h=1]Bill Clinton's blasts Black Lives Matters hecklers at rally: 'You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter'[/h]

• Former President Bill Clinton encountered a tough crowd today in Philadelphia while campaigning for wife Hillary Clinton
• He shouted back at Black Lives Matter protesters and defending his 1994 crime bill that many blame for mass incarceration of black Americans
• Clinton defended the legislation saying that the crime that it cleaned up saved many black lives - 'that matter'

 

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Former President Bill Clinton – stumping for wife Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia today – shouted down Black Lives Matter protesters in the crowd.
'You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter,' Clinton told those yelling at him from the crowd.
The former president has been forced to defend his 1994 crime bill, which many point to as the start of mass incarceration of black men in the United States, and politicians on both sides of the aisle have endorsed criminal justice reforms.
Black Lives Matter has also taken up this mantle, along with the issue of police violence against unarmed black citizens.
At the same event Clinton made a comment about his own Oval Office leadership that suggested failure on the part of current President Barack Obama.

 

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Former President Bill Clinton engaged in a testy back-and-forth exchange with Black Lives Matter protesters who blame he and his wife Hillary for mass incarceration of black men in the United States

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Former President Bill Clinton touted some of the statistics that went alongside his 1994 crime bill, suggesting that the legislation - which incarcerated many black men - also saved the lives of African-American children

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Former President Bill Clinton laid out a number of counterpoints - including reminding the audience that Hillary was first lady at the time and didn't vote for the controversial crime bill

 

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Clinton said, 'Unlike when I became president, a lot of things are coming apart around the world now.'
The commentary set off a new round of criticism of the former president for putting his White House record on a pedestal at the expense of two-term, Democrat Obama.
The tussle with the Black Lives Matter protesters took front and center, as Clinton countered that they were 'afraid of the truth.'
In the past, Clinton has suggested his crime bill went too far, on Thursday he defended it aggressively after they periodically interrupted him Pennsylvania, which holds a primary later this month.
'Can I answer?' he said, stopping his stump speech because of shouts. 'Now, you see, here's the thing, I like protesters, but the ones who won't let you answer are afraid of the truth. That's the simple rule.'
Clinton noted that his crime bill had had a lot of support within the African-American community.
'I talk to a lot of African-American groups, they thought black lives matter, they said "take this bill because our kids are being shot in the street by gangs,"' he said.
'Because of that bill we had a 25 year low in crime, a 33 year low in the murder rate and listen to this because of that and the background check law, we had a 46 year low in the deaths of people by gun violence and who do you think those lives were? That mattered,' he continued.

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Protester Rosco Farmer is corralled in the back of the auditorium by civil affairs officers near the end of Bill Clinton's rally for his wife

 

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'Can I answer?' Bill Clinton said, stopping his stump speech because of shouts, and then rebutting Black Lives Matter protesters

 

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'Whose lives were saved that mattered?' he added.
That explanation wasn't enough to satisfy the protesters who continued to interrupt the Democrat from the crowd.
'Now you're screaming, so let's do another one,' Clinton said.
'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 onto the street to murder other African-American children,' he noted.
'Maybe you thought they were good citizens,' he added, before railing against the hypocrisy he suggested that the protesters represented.
He punctuated his throaty response with, 'tell the truth!'
Throughout the course of the back-and-forth, Clinton also noted that his record and his wife's should not be looked at the same.
'Hillary didn't vote for that bill because she wasn't in the Senate,' Clinton stated.
'She was spending her time trying to get healthcare for poor kids,' he continued.
'Who were they?' he asked aloud. 'And their lives matter.'

 

[busterhyman]

time for hillary to put bill back on his meds.

 

[GasMan]

He is obviously a racist

 

[scottcarter]

Bill acting like Trump. Calling it like it is.

 

[GasMan]

Yeah...I actually like it