Although Bernie Sanders went to Seattle on Saturday to give two speeches, they did not go as planned.

The first speech did not happen due to the large group of protestors from a local Black Lives Matter chapter that took over the stage at the event celebrating the anniversary of Social Security and Medicare, according to The Washington Post.

Sanders was scheduled to speak on the stage as a final speaker in a very long program at the park. When he finally did take the stage, protestors stormed the stage and took command of the microphone immediately pointing out Sanders as being accountable for not doing anything to address police brutality as well as the other issues on their agenda.

The protestors continued to talk about the issues on their list then asked for crowd for a period of silence to remember Michael Brown who had been shot and killed by a police officer.

The organizers of the event allowed the period of silence while others in the crowd insisted with shouts that the group leave the stage. Sanders left the stage after a few brief moments where he was met by supporters in the crowd who had come to hear him speak.

Hours later, Sanders moved over to the college basketball arena where the Washington Huskies play drawing in the biggest crowd for the presidential contender at about 15,000.

Sanders, a democratic socialist, is one of the leading alternatives to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, drew in attention and held it from the thousands of onlookers.

In his speech, he gained applause for disparaging the political influences of what he called the “billionaire class” and he assured crowd that he would raise the minimum wage, mandate family leave and help to make the lives of the working class much better.

“This is the country we can create,” Sanders said during an hour-long speech.