A BLM leader and professor at California State University in LA has been dragged out of a mayoral debate and had the police called on her.
Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies who has been at the college for 20 years, was hauled out by around four members of campus security.
The 49-year-old claimed that she was kicked out because she did not have a ticket for the event.
Attendance was strictly limited, and it was preceded by protests over some candidates being excluded from participating.
Melina Abdullah, a Cal State professor of 20 years and the co-founder of BLM LA, was forcibly removed from a mayoral debate at the campus on Sunday evening
Abdullah told the LA Times that she was ejected because she did not have a ticket to attend the tightly monitored event
Footage shows a near empty theater with a panel of LA mayoral candidates on the stage and Abdullah and another woman sitting in a back row.
One of the women can be heard saying ‘why aren’t people being allowed in? Why are people not allowed in? Let the people in!’
Security then take hold of Abdullah, who begins to shout ‘You’re hurting me! You’re hurting me.’
She begins shouting the names of several of the candidates on stage and repeats: ‘They’re hurting me.’
She continued: ‘This is a public university, and I work here! This is a public university! This is a public University for the public!’
As she was removed from the the theater onlookers could be heard calling the police pigs
But she was carried out by the four security workers as she wailed: ‘Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you.’
She then appeared to be handed over to police officers who escorted her out of the building.
Abdullah told the LA Times she was ejected simply because she did not have a ticket to attend the debate.
She said: ‘Debates should be public… especially at a public university.’ She added the students, faculty, and public were not allowed into the ‘near-empty theater.’
Cal State LA said ‘One person was removed from the debate, arrested, and released at the scene. There were no other arrests.
‘Cal State LA’s Department of Public Safety has no comment. The university will provide a statement after a fuller review of the incident.’
In 2018 Abdullah was removed from a Police Commission meeting after she helped a protester (center, in black) throw her niece’s ashes in the police chief’s face
Abdullah (left) faced recent scandal after it was revealed she and fellow BLM founders bought a $6million mansion with charity donations
This is not Abdullah’s first scuffle with the law during an organized event.
In May 2018 she was removed from a Police Commission meeting after she assisted in helping a woman throw the ashes of her niece in a LAPD Chief Charlie Beck’s face.
Beck claimed Abdullah held his arm down during the incident, and she was charged with battery and interfering with a public meeting.
The charges were ultimately dropped, but Abdullah sued the city for wrongful arrest. A jury found that she had not been wrongfully arrested in 2020.
She also found herself embroiled in the recent scandal surrounding the $6million mansion purchased by her and her fellow BLM leaders with the charity’s donations.
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