thehill | Rep. Maxine Waters
(D-Calif.) on Saturday called on her supporters at a rally to confront
Trump Cabinet officials in public spaces like restaurants and department
stores to protest the administration's policies.
"I have no
sympathy for these people that are in this administration who know it is
wrong what they're doing on so many fronts but they tend to not want to
confront this president," Waters said at a Los Angeles rally on Saturday.
"For
these members of his cabinet who remain and try to defend him they're
not going to be able to go to a restaurant, they're not going to be able
to stop at a gas station, they're not going to be able to shop at a
department store, the people are going to turn on them, they're going to
protest, they're going to absolutely harass them until they decide that
they're going to tell the president 'no I can't hang with you, this is
wrong this is unconscionable and we can't keep doing this to children,'"
she continued.
Waters' call comes as the Trump administration faces
major backlash over the handling of its "zero tolerance" immigration
policy, which has resulted in the separation of immigrant families.
Protesters confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., last week, yelling “shame” at Nielsen and “End Texas concentration camps.”
Demonstrators in a separate incident on Friday blasted audio of crying migrant children who had been separated from their parents outside Nielsen's home.
White
House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has also faced public
backlash for her work in the administration, recently being told by one
of the owners of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va., to leave due
to her role in the administration.
“I’m not a huge fan of confrontation,” co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson told
The Washington Post. “I have a business, and I want the business to
thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to
make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.”
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