Activist Heckles "Which Hillary" At Clinton Fundraiser
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (CBSMiami) -- Hillary Clinton was interrupted by an activist Thursday while giving a speech at a fundraiser in South Carolina.
A Black Lives Matter protester stood next to Clinton and unfolded a sign which read: "We have to bring them to heel," as reported by CBSNews.
It's a quote Hillary made in 1996, in reference to then-President Bill Clinton's 1994 Violent Crime Control Act, targeting gang members and drugs in the community.
"We need to take these people on. They are often connected to big drug cartels. They are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the kinds of kids that are called 'super-predators.' No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why then ended up that way but first we have to bring them to heel," said Hillary Clinton in a televised speech, who was first lady at the time.
On Thursday, the protester, a young black woman, pressed Clinton to address those remarks and to apologize for the "mass incarceration" of blacks and minorities.
She told Clinton, "I am not a super predator" in a tense standoff in front of dozens of supporters and demanded that she "owe black people an apology."
The confrontation quickly spread to social media where "#WhichHillary" began trending, including a "#WhichHillaryCensored" hashtag, after Twitter users claimed their tweets were being censored. The hashtag questions Clinton's progressive fight for minority issues.
The woman was eventually escorted out of the building. Clinton responded afterward, sympathetic for the woman's issue.
"My life's work has been about lifting up children and young people who've been let down by the system or by society," Clinton said. "Kids who never got the chance they deserved. And unfortunately today, there are way too many of those kids, especially in African-American communities. We haven't done right by them. We need to. We need to end the school to prison pipeline and replace it with a cradle-to-college pipeline."
