WHITE HAIRED OLD MEN SAYING OFFENSIVE THINGS: Bill Clinton clashes with protesters over his crime bill.

Former President Bill Clinton repeatedly defended himself from criticism about his support of his controversial crime bill from a series of protestors during a rally for his wife’s presidential campaign.

The protestors interrupted the president’s stump speech, shouting criticism of his support of the 1994 crime bill that raised mandatory minimum sentences, with one holding up a sign that said “Clinton crime bill destroyed our communities.”

Clinton pivoted away from his typical stump speech and launched into a series of arguments about ways the crime bill did help the black community.

“You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter,” a visibly heated Clinton exclaimed. “Tell the truth.”

In 1994, he said, “I talked to a bunch of African-American groups — they think black lives matter. [The groups said] to take this bill because people are being shot in the street by gangs. We had 13-year-old kids planning their own funerals,” Clinton said.

“Whose lives were saved that mattered?”

Related: Sanders interview causes uproar.

Bernie Sanders’s comments to the New York Daily News about banks are at the center of the biggest fight in the Democratic presidential primary to date.

Sanders has frequently used Wall Street as a cudgel against rival Hillary Clinton, but the muddy interview allowed Clinton to put him on defense over what has been his core strength.

It was a surprising turn of events and one that has led to the most bitter stretch yet in the contentious race for the Democratic nomination.

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