Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul dared to lecture Black Lives Matter leaders about the need to change the overriding focus of their movement.

Largely ignoring the backdrop that has spurred widespread protests and demonstrations across much of the country in recent months, Paul told Fox News host Sean Hannity noting that he has previously been accused of "talking down" the movement. "I think they should change their name maybe - if they were All Lives Matter, or Innocent Lives Matter."

The roots of Black Lives Matter movement can be largely traced to the August 2014 shooting death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, by then-officer Darren Wilson. Since then, the police involved deaths of the likes of Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner and Freddie Gray have only intensified the crusade of demonstrators.

"I am about justice, and frankly I think a lot of poor people in our country, and many African Americans, are trapped in this war on drugs, and I want to change it," said Paul, who was also quick to make reference of the fact that he once appeared at events with members of the Black Caucus and once visited Howard University to lecture students.

Paul referred to some of the recent actions of Black Lives Matter protesters, which includes disruptions to planned speeches of fellow presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley, as "bullying people and pushing people out of the way."

After Sanders surrendered his microphone during a recent outing in Seattle, leading Republican candidate Donald Trump quipped "I would never give up my microphone. I thought that was disgusting."

The tenor taken by Paul during his Hannity appearance seemed to echo Trump's sentiments.

"Having people take the microphone -- they need to go somewhere else, and they need to rent their own microphone," said Paul.

Paul also drew the ire of Black Lives Matter protesters earlier this year when he said of the protest in Baltimore that followed the Gray killing, "It's depressing, it's sad, it's scary. I came through the train on Baltimore last night; I'm glad the train didn't stop."