{"id":1460435,"date":"2022-05-02T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1460435"},"modified":"2022-05-02T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T17:14:59","slug":"blm-leader-removes-from-mayoral-debate-inevitably-blames-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-leader-removes-from-mayoral-debate-inevitably-blames-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM Leader Removes From Mayoral Debate, Inevitably Blames Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblm-leader-removes-from-mayoral-debate-inevitably-blames-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1460435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<h2>The video was shared by Melina Abdullah, a BLM leader<\/h2>\n<div id=\"authorDate\">\n<p>\u00a0on&#038;nbsp2nd May 2022 @ 6.00pm <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure title=\"Videos of the incident show campus police officers, each holding one of Abdullah\u2019s arms, lifting her from the seat\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Videos of the incident show campus police officers, each holding one of Abdullah\u2019s arms, lifting her from the seat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neonnettle.com\/tags\/black-lives-matter\">Black Lives Matter<\/a>\u00a0leader in Los Angeles was forcibly carried out of a mayoral debate, with online videos of the incident going viral.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video was shared by Melina Abdullah, a BLM leader and Cal State Los Angeles professor, who said she was <em>&#8220;brutally removed&#8221;<\/em> from the closed event as she did not possess a ticket to be there, the Los Angeles Times reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Debates should be public &#8230;, especially at a public university,&#8221;<\/em> Abdullah said in a statement to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>She noted there was only a small attendance at the<em> &#8220;near-empty theater.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The professor also suggested her race could have played a factor, tweeting after her removal: <em>&#8220;the white PBI [Pat Brown Institute] director called the police on me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<figure title=\"Melina Abdullah, a BLM leader, and a Cal State Los Angeles professor, who said she was &#039;brutally removed&#039;\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Melina-Abdullah-a-BLM-leader.jpg\" alt=\"melina abdullah  a blm leader  and a cal state los angeles professor  who said she was  brutally removed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Melina Abdullah, a BLM leader, and a Cal State Los Angeles professor, who said she was &#8216;brutally removed&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Videos of the incident show campus police officers, each holding one of Abdullah\u2019s arms, lifting her from the seat, and removing her from the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Several people who appeared to support Abdullah, stood in front of the officers, blocking their path, or yelled at them for their actions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just minutes before the debate, a couple sitting on the back were escorted\/dragged off by campus police officers as the women chanted &#8220;This is public university!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0pnJxuDRB1\">pic.twitter.com\/0pnJxuDRB1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeong Park \ubc15\uc885\ucc2c (@JeongPark52) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeongPark52\/status\/1520924190353723393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following the incident, Abdullah took to Twitter to respond to supporters, thanking them.<\/p>\n<p>As a grassroots leader in L.A., Abdullah has played an active role in local and state politics, which included campaigning for California Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>During the campaign, Abdullah described Newsom&#8217;s Republican opponent Larry Elder as a <em>&#8220;black face on white supremacy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<figure title=\"As a grassroots leader in L.A., Abdullah has played an active role in local and state politics\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/blm-mob-storms-neighborhood-white-black-homes-114820.jpg\" alt=\"as a grassroots leader in l a   abdullah has played an active role in local and state politics\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>As a grassroots leader in L.A., Abdullah has played an active role in local and state politics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She has also supported controversial positions, such as defending convicted cop killers, and has called for the abolishment of police departments.<\/p>\n<p>She has also tweeted,\u00a0<em>&#8220;f&#8212; the police,&#8221; &#8220;<\/em><em>Don&#8217;t be afraid to say abolish the police&#8221;<\/em> and other anti-police sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>She most recently spoke out against Tesla CEO Elon Musk&#8217;s purchase of Twitter, calling him a <em>&#8220;racist.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The debate at the Cal State University facility included the five mayoral candidates that were leading in the polls.<\/p>\n<p>The participants included L.A. City Councilman Joe Buscaino, Rep. Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, businessman Rick Caruso, L.A. City Councilman Kevin de Le\u00f3n and L.A. City Attorney Mike Feuer.<\/p>\n<p>The debate included several questions and comments about the city\u2019s ongoing homeless crisis.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/neonnettle.com\/news\/11816-seattle-s-democrat-mayor-outraged-as-blm-protest-erupts-outside-her-home\">[RELATED] Seattle&#8217;s Democrat Mayor Outraged as BLM Protest Erupts Outside Her Home<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video was shared by Melina Abdullah, a BLM leader \u00a0on&#038;nbsp2nd May 2022 @ 6.00pm   \u00a9\u00a0press Videos of the incident show campus police officers,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}