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Bill Clinton responds angrily to a pair of hecklers - among the points of contention was his 1994 crime bill - during an appearance in support of his wife at the Dorothy Emanuel Recreation Center in East Mount Airy. 
  
 Bill Clinton went off his stump-speech script Thursday at a Philadelphia rally for his wife, engaging in an exchange with two protesters over his 1994 crime bill and Hillary Clinton's impact on the African American community. 
  
 The 42nd president even used the words that have become a battle cry - "black lives matter" - in describing his wife's efforts. 
  
 He called on 400 supporters inside Dorothy Emanuel Recreation Center's gym in East Mount Airy to be part of a "big turnout" in Pennsylvania's April 26 primary. He thanked Villanova University for helping him win his NCAA basketball brackets - and Philadelphia voters for consistently helping Clintons win the state. 
  
 Halfway through his address, Erica Mines of Hunting Park started yelling at Clinton over several issues, including the 1994 crime bill. Mines argued that the Clintons' record had been one of detriment to the black community. 
  
 She and a man held up alternating signs, one reading: "Clinton crime bill destroyed our communities!" The former commander-in-chief responded saying, "Let's talk about that," as Mines continued yelling over his responses. 
  
 "I like protesters, but the ones that won't let you answer are afraid of the truth," Clinton said, prompting loud cheers. He went on to say how he thinks the bill, and his wife, helped the black community. 
  
 "Because of that bill we had a 25-year low in crime, a 30-year low in the murder rate, and because of that and the background-check law, a 46-year low in deaths of lives by gun violence and who do you think those lives were that mattered? Whose lives were saved that mattered?" Clinton asked. 
  
 He noted Hillary Clinton, a former New York senator and former secretary of state, wasn't in the Senate when the bill passed. "She was spending her time trying to get health care for poor kids. Who were they? And their lives matter," he said. 
  
 Things grew more tense as Clinton responded to a second sign, "Black youth are not super predators" - a reference to a Hillary Clinton comment in the 1990s. 
  
 "I don't know how you would describe the gang leaders who got 13-year-olds hopped up on crack and sent them out in the streets to murder other African American children. Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didn't," he said of his wife. "You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter. Tell the truth!" 
  
 Clinton also pointed to Hillary Clinton's past work at the Children's Defense Fund desegregating Southern schools, and her efforts to fight AIDS in Africa. 
  
 "I'll tell you another story about a place where black lives matter: Africa," Clinton said. 
  
 At one point, supporters roared "H-R-C!" to try to drown out the two protesters. 
  
 Mines, 38, a student at Community College of Philadelphia, said she's a registered independent, doesn't plan on voting in the primary, and wasn't representing any group. 
  
 "I'm here because Hillary Clinton doesn't deserve the black vote," she told reporters after the rally, as Clinton shook hands and posed for photos nearby. "She is married to Bill Clinton; their policies are the same." 
  
 Some listeners shrugged off the protests. "That's called a democracy," said former City Councilwoman Marian Tasco, who introduced Clinton. "People come and they have their issues, but I think the president handled it very well. It was disruptive, but those things happen." 
  
 Ty Jenkins, 53, said he thought blaming Hillary Clinton for high levels of incarceration was misplaced. "I don't hold Hillary responsible for what happened to us any more than I hold any member of society," he said. 
  
 The exchange with the protesters was a lively moment for Bill Clinton, who had largely avoided public campaigning for his wife until the New Hampshire primary, and has mostly toned down his passionate "Big Dog" political persona. 
  
 Earlier Thursday, he was low-key and charming as he spoke on his wife's behalf to some 300 African Methodist Episcopal ministers and laypeople in Philadelphia. 
  
 "I have worked hard for my candidate," Clinton slyly told an appreciative audience at the A.M.E. gathering. Members from 39 countries came for a meeting of the governing board of the church, founded in Philadelphia 200 years ago. 
  
 Avoiding direct criticism of Hillary Clinton's rival for the Democratic nomination, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton called his wife the "best change-maker I've ever known." 
  
 jterruso@phillynews.com 
  
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 During a campaign appearance for his wife on Thursday, a passionate Bill Clinton faced down protesters in Philadelphia as they chanted and held up signs taking issue with the legacy of crime and welfare legislation he oversaw during his time in the White House. 
  
 Recalling rampant crime when he took office and the efficacy of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Prevention Act in lowering, the former president remarked of one protester, "She doesn't want to hear any of that. You know what else she doesn't want to hear?" 
  
 Clinton then ticked through the record-low murder rates and a 46-year-low in the deaths of people by gun violence during his tenure. 
  
 "And who do you think whose lives those were that mattered? Whose lives were saved that mattered?" Clinton said, remarking that his wife did not vote for that bill because she was trying to pass universal health care for children as first lady. 
  
 While noting that Bernie Sanders voted for it, Clinton remarked, "I don't blame him either." 
  
 A woman then shouted that Clinton should be charged for "crimes against humanity." At another point, a woman yelled, "Hillary Clinton is a murderer." 
  
 “See these other signs? This is what’s the matter," Clinton said, referring to people in attendance at a recreation center. "I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and set ‘em out onto the street to murder other African-American children." 
  
 "Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didn’t," he said, referring to his wife. "She didn’t. You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter. Tell the truth. You are defending the people who caused people to go out and take guns." 
  
 Speaking to the NAACP convention in Philadelphia last July, the former president admitted that the law made the issue of mass incarceration worse. 
  
 "I signed a bill that made the problem worse, and I want to admit it," he said of the legislation that included a three-strikes provision mandated life sentences for criminals convicted of a violent felony after two or more previous convictions, including drug crimes." 
  
 Turning to the signs pertaining to the major welfare reform passed in 1996, Clinton disputed the notion that the bill increased poverty 
  
 "Then why do we have the largest drop in African-American poverty in history when I was president? The largest in history," he said, blaming Republicans in state legislatures after he left the White House. “The Republicans took it away, and they’re blaming me. And apparently her, she she had nothing to do with it." 
  
 The reason they know it's true, Clinton said, "is because they won't hush." 
  
 “When somebody wont hush and listen to you, that ain’t democracy. They’re afraid of the truth. Don’t you be afraid of the truth, don’t you be afraid of the truth," Clinton said, as the shouting continued. "So, if you think it was bad in the 1990s, if you think record increases in income and record low unemployment, record decreases in poverty and record small businesses forming was bad, you ought to go with them. Otherwise, you better elect Hillary president so we can get this economy going again.” 
  
 "I love protesters, except when they won't let you answer," Clinton remarked. "It reminds me of when the Republicans tried to blame me for the financial meltdown." ||||| Story highlights Black Lives Matter protesters interrupted Bill Clinton's speech in Philadelphia 
  
 The former president defended his wife against her past comments 
  
 (CNN) Bill Clinton traded verbal shots in a feisty 15-minute exchange with Black Lives Matter protesters in Philadelphia on Thursday, as he defended his wife's presidential bid. 
  
 The protesters shouted that "black youth are not super predators," taking issue with a phrase then-first lady Hillary Clinton used in a 1996 speech about violent crime committed by young people. They heckled Bill Clinton for the 1994 crime bill he signed into law as president that cracked down on gangs but also put more non-violent offenders in prison for longer stays. 
  
 "You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter," the former president told protesters. 
  
 One protester's signs declared, in an apparent reference to the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, that "Hillary is a murderer." The protesters repeatedly shouted over Clinton, ignoring his responses and invoking Clinton's ties to Wall Street, as well. 
  
 In the exchange, Clinton repeatedly said, "I love protesters" -- but complained that they wouldn't let him respond. "Here's the thing. I like protesters, but the ones that won't let you answer are afraid of the truth. That's a simple rule," Clinton said. 
  
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Bill Clinton ended up having to defend his own record as president while stumping for Hillary in Philadelphia on Thursday. CNN reports that during a 15-minute exchange with Black Lives Matter protesters, Clinton defended his 1994 crime bill, which led to longer sentences for nonviolent offenders. "Because of that bill we had a 25-year low in crime, a 30-year low in the murder rate, and because of that and the background-check law, a 46-year low in deaths of lives by gun violence, and who do you think those lives were that mattered?" Clinton said. "Whose lives were saved that mattered?" He also addressed his 1996 welfare reforms, saying the "largest drop in African-American poverty in history" happened during his presidency. Clinton also defended Hillary's 1994 use of the term "super predator" to describe young people in gangs. "I don't know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out in the streets to murder other African-American children," he said, per Politico. "Maybe you thought they were good citizens—she didn't." The protesters who interrupted him carried signs with phrases including "Clinton crime bill destroyed our communities." "I'm here because Hillary Clinton doesn't deserve the black vote," a protester told the Philadelphia Inquirer after the rally. "She is married to Bill Clinton; their policies are the same."