LOS ANGELES—A Black Lives Matter chapter co-founder and Los Angeles professor was removed by campus police from the Los Angeles mayoral debate on May 1 for not having a ticket to the event.
Melina Abdullah was forcibly removed from the debate, co-hosted by the Pat Brown Institute and the Los Angeles League of Women Voters at California State University–LA, for entering the venue without a ticket and declining requests from officers to leave.
In videos uploaded to Twitter, Abdullah can be seen not responding to officers’ requests for her to leave the venue.
“You’re hurting me, you’re hurting me,” Abdullah can be heard saying. “Karen Bass, Kevin de Leon, Mike Feuer—they’re hurting me. This is a public university.”
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