- The several hundred delegates stormed out of the convention hall before quietly sitting down and occupying the press tent, aware of how to maximize their leverage. Police surrounded the tent, and refused to let anyone in or out until the situation was resolved.
That surprise was by design, but also a product of the fact that the walkout came together in only the final minutes, according to interviews with more than a dozen organizers. Word spread through various delegations by word of mouth and text message like a wave during the roll call vote of the states.
Bernie supporters let it be known that they don't support the military industrial complex, Wall Street, the privatized prison industry, mass surveillance, compromising encryption, unethical trade deals that favor large companies over the health safty ad the enviroment, and the murder of hundreds of thousands of brown people over seas. Hillary supporters (and at least one Bernie supporter) whined that they weren't being sporting and should just get over it.
A minority of Bernie supporters. To be fair, it is also because they feel like the Hillary campaign has been uninterested in reconciling with them. Calling them Bernie Bros the entire time probably didn't help. And DWS immediately getting a place in her campaign looks like a pretty big middle finger to them. What did you expect? It has been building up to this pretty much since the start. Bernie supporters throw temper tantrum
because the DNC did not overturn democracy and allow their candidate to win
in the process embarrassing the rest of us who supported him.