“Will you apologize to black people about mass incarceration?” the unidentified girl asked.
“I know that you called black people ‘superpredators’ in 1994,” she said. “You owe black people an apology.”
The girl was eventually escorted away, and shortly afterward Clinton is heard saying: “Okay now, back to the issues,” before continuing her speech.The “superpredators” comment the BLM activist referred to is one
Clinton made in 1996 about community policing and cracking down on gang violence.
“We also have to have an organized effort against gangs,”
she said. “They are not just gangs of kids anymore, they are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘superpredators.’ [They have] no conscience, no empathy, and we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.”
Recently, former NAACP president Ben Jealous, who recently endorsed Bernie Sanders, has been accusing Clinton of pushing the “superpredator” theory — a line of rhetoric prevalent in the ’90s that theorized many of the worst criminal offenders were already a lost cause at a very young age, thus juvenile offenders should be punished more harshly.
