Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Removed from LA Mayoral Debate

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Removed from LA Mayoral Debate
Melina Abdullah speaks during the BLD PWR and Black Lives Matter Los Angeles final march to the polls in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2020. Rich Fury/Getty Images
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LOS ANGELES—A Black Lives Matter chapter co-founder and Los Angeles professor was removed by campus police from a 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.

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