According to CNN, BLM Boston planned to attend Clinton event in NH this afternoon to ask questions; they gave their story to a New Republic reporter, who posted the story at 3pm.
Note: This story is evolving, more in posts.
UPDATE CNN's wrap up story just published:
Apparently, BLM will publish video:
The #BlackLivesMatter members, along with over a dozen other members of the public, were escorted into an overflow room, where they watched Clinton's event. Afterwards, Clinton went to the overflow room to meet and take pictures with the 20 or so people inside.
Initially, the meeting between Clinton and the protesters was going to be covered by pooled members of the media, but Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton's campaign, said the #BlackLivesMatter protesters asked for the event not to be recorded by the media once they were informed journalists would be let in. Members of the media were never in the room with Clinton and the protesters.
But Yancey cast doubt on the Clinton campaign's reason for journalist not being let in after the event.
"We said that we did not want to take a photo with her," Yancey said. "The only thing that we were asked about was whether we wanted to include photos."
When asked whether they were asked to allow members of the media in, Yancey said, "Nope, we were not asked that."
The #BlackLivesMatter members filmed their meeting with Clinton, however, and plan to put the video out. http://www.cnn.com/...
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Secret Service agents on Tuesday kept five people in #BlackLivesMatter T-shirts from entering a Hillary Clinton event in New Hampshire.
The Secret Service had closed the doors to the event, a forum focused on combating substance abuse, in Keene after it reached capacity, a Clinton spokesperson and a Secret Service agent told CNN.
One of the five kept outside the event was Daunasia Yancey, the organizer from the Boston chapter of #BlackLivesMatter. The New Republic had quoted her earlier Tuesday saying the group planned to disrupt Clinton’s event with questions about her previous support for “draconian penalties for drug possession and abuse” and the “hyper-militarization of urban police forces.”
An overflow room was set up at Clinton’s Keene event. It was unclear whether any of the five protesters got into that room. http://www.wmal.com/...
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Activists from Boston’s #BlackLivesMatter chapter plan to disrupt a Hillary Clinton event in Keene, New Hampshire, on Tuesday afternoon, asking her questions specifically about her platform on drug enforcement. The event, which was scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m., is a community forum on substance abuse. Keene is one of many New England towns being affected by a heroin crisis.
A small group of activists, led by Black Lives Matter Boston founder Daunasia Yancey, shared their talking points and planned questions exclusively with the New Republic while en route to the protest. They mention Clinton’s previous support of policies “which instituted draconian penalties for drug possession and abuse at the same time they funnel money away from anti-poverty programs and into hyper-militarization of urban police forces and the institution of white supremacist police profiling policies.”http://www.newrepublic.com/...
However, CNN twitter, said the event began at 3:30pm.
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According to latest tweets, BLM Boston is talking to Clinton campaign, not confirmed.
3:14 PM PT: Politico reporting :Five demonstrators with the Black Lives Matter movement who had planned to disrupt Hillary Clinton’s campaign event here were barred from entering after they arrived too late to make it past the Secret Service screening. The group made it into the overflow room and watched the event on live stream, eventually meeting with Clinton after the event behind closed doors.