Booker: Black Lives Matter Protestors Anger Is ‘Legitimate’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) appeared on Saturday’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC and discussed Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) being forced off the stage by Black Lives Matter protestors on Saturday.

Booker acknowledged Sanders’s work in minority communities, but he said the protestors’ anger is a “legitimate degree of frustration” because the United States “has yet to confront persistent human rights issues.”

“Bernie has become somebody I have tremendous respect for, as an ally of mine addressing issues in the United States Senate that affect minority communities and he has a long record of civil rights. But the anger you saw there, from the protesters, this is a legitimate degree of frustration in this country, in a nation that has yet to confront what I believe are persistent civil rights issues, human rights issues.”