Bernie Sanders bullied off stage by black lives matter protesters

[Famous Mortimer]

What can Sanders realistically do? If it was any other type of protesters, the cops would just be called in to take them away. That's obviously not politically feasible. Maybe Sanders needs to assemble some sort of all Black security force?

[Famous Mortimer]

Dear God, some of the defenses of Sanders here are mind-bogglingly condescending and ignorant. Are Black people somehow obligated to vote for Sanders because he supported Jesse Jackson 37 years ago, or that he supported civil rights 50 years ago? This argument is nearly tantamount to accusing Democrats of being racist because of Dixiecrats or claiming that Blacks are obligated to vote Republican because of slavery. No, those concerned with police brutality and racial profiling should support the candidate willing to make meaningful changes toward preventing institutional racism, which is clearly one of Sanders' weaker areas. Condemning incidences of police brutality (which Sanders has done, and has a better record than most candidates on) does not make a concrete policy proposal to solve the issue, nor does talking about past support for civil rights. 

So your goal is to go after go after the better candidates and force them to go on long Tumblr rants about White supremacy and condemn America as inherently racist so that they can make themselves unelectable and the worse candidates can win?

[Famous Mortimer]

No one here is saying Black people are obliged to vote for Sanders because he voted for Jesse Jackson, by the way. People are saying these activists have no right to prevent a presidential candidate from talking by screaming about how he's silencing THEM. Furthermore, if they must do that, yes, it does seem extremely dumb to do it to the presidential candidate who everyone seems to agree is better, if not the best, on the issues they claim to care about.

[Famous Mortimer]

I wish Bernie showed some backbone, kinda disappointed he just let them take over his event like that.

What was he supposed to do? Shove them off the stage? He stood there respectfully for 20 minutes, the arguably best thing to do.

Calling security would have been the best coarse of action

That's the problem. These people are protesting about police brutality so he can't do that. Even if it's a private security firm, it's still going to look very bad. These people are obviously not going to go down quietly, they will resist being taken away, they may even hurt themselves in the process. Say they do end up getting a twisted arm or a Black eye in the process of flailing around, in the current atmosphere of the left, even if it's apparent that they did it to themselves, you can't say anything negative about Black activists. The whole story will be "BLM activists injured by security at Bernie Sanders rally". He won't be able to refute it, he knows that, that's why he never criticizes these people, he just walks away and says nothing, that's all he can do.