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And this is after Dallas
Via Washington Times:
Civil-rights icon John Lewis, who was beaten unconscious by racist Southern cops in 1960s civil-rights marches, was heckled at the U.S. Capitol when he appealed for calm from protesters marching against police shootings.
Mr. Lewis, now a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Georgia, told marchers who’d arrived at the Capitol in a spontaneous, permitless march from the White House that “we stand with you.”
“What happened in Louisiana, in Minnesota was a shame and a disgrace and it must never happen again,” he said around 9:25 p.m., according to live CNN footage.
He reminded the audience, which was being kept off the Capitol steps, that “I went to jail 40 times in the 60s, but I never gave in,” admonishing the protesters to do the same.
But when he told them they “gotta be peaceful,” at least one of the protesters began shrieking at him, CNN footage showed.
Via Washington Times:
Civil-rights icon John Lewis, who was beaten unconscious by racist Southern cops in 1960s civil-rights marches, was heckled at the U.S. Capitol when he appealed for calm from protesters marching against police shootings.
Mr. Lewis, now a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Georgia, told marchers who’d arrived at the Capitol in a spontaneous, permitless march from the White House that “we stand with you.”
“What happened in Louisiana, in Minnesota was a shame and a disgrace and it must never happen again,” he said around 9:25 p.m., according to live CNN footage.
He reminded the audience, which was being kept off the Capitol steps, that “I went to jail 40 times in the 60s, but I never gave in,” admonishing the protesters to do the same.
But when he told them they “gotta be peaceful,” at least one of the protesters began shrieking at him, CNN footage showed.
