Critics confront McConnell, Bannon in public encounters
A group of protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the Trump administration's immigration policy as he left dinner in his home state of Kentucky.
Meanwhile in Virginia, a bookstore owner in Richmond called police after he says a customer began harassing former White House strategist Steve Bannon in his shop.
Kentucky news 0utlets report a group outside Louisville's Bristol Bar & Grille chanted “Abolish ICE!” at McConnell. The impromptu protest took place near where hundreds protested the government's now-ended family separation policy outside an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement office.
One protester asked, “Where are the babies, Mitch?”
McConnell's dining companion, Kentucky politician Jonathan Shell, characterized the protesting group as “extremist.”
Shell criticized one protester who called McConnell “turtle head” and said, “We know where you live.” While the protest was attended by Louisville's Democratic Socialists of America, the chapter said in a statement that that protester was unaffiliated.
In Virginia, Nick Cooke, owner of Black Swan Books, called 911 after witnessing a woman confront Bannon and call him a “piece of trash.”
Cooke said Bannon was minding his own business when the woman began harassing him. Cooke asked the woman to leave. She did so only after he called police.
Bannon grew up in Richmond.
The confrontations come weeks after a Lexington, Va., restaurant owner declined to serve White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.