Jeb Bush actually didn't meet with Black Lives Matter activists before they broke up his campaign event


Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) saw his campaign event in Las Vegas come to an abrupt end Wednesday when Black Lives Matter activists protested. But the news was tempered by the claim from Bush's aides that he met with some of the group's members beforehand.
New reporting from the Huffington Post published Friday suggests the meeting with activists never happened.
"There was a meeting, but no activists from the Black Lives Matter movement participated," HuffPo's Dana Liebelson wrote after speaking with the president of the Las Vegas Urban League, who hosted the event. "Instead, Bush met with a local elected official, a GOP lobbyist, and a staffer from an anti-poverty organization."
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Bush's campaign did not comment on the meeting's attendees.
In recent weeks, Black Lives Matter activists have taken to protesting both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates as a means of urging them to do more to address police brutality against black people.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
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