“They’re in the media tent – you guys are happy these guys are here,” Francis said. Scores of disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters stormed the media center at the Democratic national convention on Tuesday night after Hillary Clinton officially clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, staging a short-lived sit-in as law enforcement officials and hundreds of members of the press looked on. The protest began a few minutes after Sanders called on the convention to nominate Clinton by acclamation, with dissatisfied supporters of the runner-up candidate leaving Wells Fargo Arena in droves. Datta claimed “at least half” of the more than 1,300 Sanders delegates had wanted to take part, but said many had been “shut out” of the media center after the sit-in had begun. And so there’s a lot of uncertainty with it, because nobody knows exactly what his motives were” for endorsing Clinton.

Source: The Guardian July 27, 2016 01:27 UTC