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South Bay residents protest Trump administration in honor of civil rights leader John Lewis

The nationwide day of action on the anniversary of Lewis’s passing comes amid waves of anti-Trump protests over the past several months

:{Community members take part in a rally during the “Good Trouble Lives On” Protest and March at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in San Jose, Calif.

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By Esther Sun | esun@bayareanewsgroup.com

UPDATED: July 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM PDT

South Bay Area residents protested the Trump administration Thursday in downtown San Jose as part of a wave of demonstrations across the country on the fifth anniversary of former congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis’s passing.

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Organized by the San Jose chapters of Indivisible and 50501, the protest began at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park and ended with a march to City Hall. The day of action is dubbed “Good Trouble Lives On,” in reference to Lewis’s call for people in America to participate in “good trouble” by speaking out and taking action against injustice.

“We believe that part of making ‘good trouble’ is community building and getting organized so that when time comes to make some kind of good trouble, you have people on your side,” said Tal Karsten, an organizer with 50501 San Jose.

Protests against Trump have spread throughout the country in the past several months, with a “No Kings” protest drawing roughly 2,000 people to downtown San Jose in June. More than 140,000 protestors attended the more than 50 “No Kings” protests across the Bay Area, according to a survey of local organizers, and hundreds also attended anti-ICE protests throughout the Bay Area the week prior.

Karsten said 50501’s protests tend to be “beginner-friendly” for people who have never attended a protest before.

Lewis, who served as U.S. Representative from Georgia for more than 30 years until his death in 2020, frequently invoked the phrase “good trouble” during his public service career. One such instance was when he returned to Selma, Alabama, for the 55th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when he suffered a skull fracture from police beating civil rights activists during the first march for voting rights from Montgomery to Selma.

“Speak up, speak out, get in the way,” Lewis told the crowd that had gathered in honor of that day. “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”

He is the namesake of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 by requiring states and municipalities to obtain federal approval before changing voting laws. The bill failed to pass Congress twice due to Republican opposition and was reintroduced in the House this March.

Recently-elected City Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, who represents downtown San Jose, and Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong were among several speakers who addressed the crowd at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park.

“I think we unfortunately are in times where we need people who are going to be leaned in, who are going to be standing up for their communities,” Tordillos told this news organization following his remarks. “So I was happy to join today.”

In other speeches, organizers and community members criticized what they view as the Trump administration’s violation of civil and constitutional rights, deportation efforts, and attacks on the LGBTQ+ community and women. They also mentioned cuts to funding for Medicaid, which is the largest funding source for the Santa Clara Valley Healthcare system, in Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” that Trump signed into law earlier this month.

Community members take part in a rally during the "Good Trouble Lives On" Protest and March at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)

Community members take part in a rally during the “Good Trouble Lives On” Protest and March at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)

U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks on the House floor Tuesday regarding the anniversary of Lewis’s passing.

“Today, as we witness attacks on civil rights, on democracy, on diversity, even on people’s basic necessities, many Americans are looking for hope,” she said. “In these moments, let us be reminded of John’s spirit and honor him not just with words, but with deeds.”

Protestor Beate Teufel, 60, immigrated from Germany and now lives in San Jose.

“I have German history, so I know what fascism is about,” she said. “And I see that this is clearly going towards fascism — what’s happening in this country.”

“I’m trying to come to as many [protests] as I can,” said Campbell resident Ana Araujo, 68. “I do it for my children, my grandchildren, and my friends who are immigrants, who are really, really scared right now, and I’m coming for them because they can’t come.”

Her foam-board sign included sketched faces of Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is dressed as a devil. She said she Googled phrases that Trump often says and chose one to put on the sign: “I don’t know anything about this.”

When she was riding the light rail to downtown San Jose for the protest, Araujo said, a man on the train saw her sign.

“There was a gentleman who said, ‘Thank you,’” she said. “I go, ‘I’m here for you.’”

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Anti-choice Republican reality TV star leverages Trump pardon in attempt to unseat John Lewis

Written by Jessica Sutherland / Daily Kos March 8, 2020

A rabid anti-choicer and vanity press publisher has entered the political fray just weeks after being pardoned by Donald Trump for her role in a car theft ring. In a move that’s certain to get her disinvited to every cookout ever, Angela Stanton-King qualified Friday as the Republican challenger to the inimitable Rep. John Lewis in Georgia’s 5th District, which encompasses most of Atlanta, and is 60% African American. (Lewis also has a challenger from the far left.) Ten Republicans have tried and failed to end the civil rights icon’s 33 years of service in the U.S. House, but Stanton-King, a BET reality show cast member who first made headlines after self-publishing not one, but two books that bashed another reality star, seems convinced that she’s the one who will succeed.

In an interview with Atlanta’s 11Alive, Stanton-King didn’t hesitate to dismiss the lifelong fight of Lewis, a bonafide national treasure. “With all respect to Congressman Lewis, when I think about him, I always have that image in my mind when he was on the Selma Bridge,” Trump’s newest black friend said, seemingly unaware that Lewis had commemorated the 55th anniversary of the historic “Bloody Sunday” bridge crossing—which left him with a cracked skull—in Alabama just five days earlier, and that the actual anniversary was hours away.

“The truth of the matter is,” she rambled on, purporting to speak for all black people with her attempt to force the vocal Trump opponent into retirement, “with all that he has given towards the fight for civil rights—which we greatly appreciate—these are no longer the days of marching over the Selma Bridge.”

So who is this woman? Stanton-King is a three-time convicted felon who served about two years in prison; she was pardoned by Trump on Feb. 18, in the same batch of pardons that “cleared” corrupt former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. With a whoosh of the Sharpie fumes that accompany Trump’s signature, the author says, she became eligible to run for federal office, which she claims is a lifelong dream. (She was always eligible.)

Notably, Stanton-King, who was born in 1977, appears to have gone by just “Stanton” until very recently—as an author, as a reality star, in her shady self-publishing business that promises to make any writer’s bestseller dreams come true for a fee, and even her Twitter handle.

After 20 years of living and being treated like a felon for committing a non-violent crime that I have paid my dues for. I stand before you today w/ a clean slate and a restored name.

My name is Angela Stanton-King

& I will beat your ass about MY President! #Trump2020 ????

— Angela Stanton-King (@theangiestanton) February 28, 2020

So where does the “King” come from? Apparently, she borrowed it from Alveda King, the self-described “pro-life warrior” and Trump Black Friend™ who “knows he’s not racist.” King is the niece of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a proud Republican. Alveda King, a member of Donald Trump’s Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission, has long been reviled for her “work” and surname-dropping within the conservative realm, which includes appearing on Fox News, doing a rally with Glenn Beck, and even bashing her aunt, the late, great Coretta Scott King.

In 1994, she released a letter condemning Coretta Scott King’s support for abortion and gay rights, saying it would bring “curses on your house and your people … cursing, vexation, rebuke in all that you put your hand to, sickness will come to you and your house, your bloodline will be cut off.”

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Alveda is dismissive of her aunt, who died in 2006, saying, “I’ve got his DNA. She doesn’t, she didn’t … Therefore I know something about him. I’m made out of the same stuff.”

Stanton-King claims that she met King fifteen years ago, when, at the end of her rope, she stumbled into a shelter and King gave her a job. Depending on where you look or what’s convenient, Alveda King is described as the wannabe congresswoman’s “godmother,” her “adopted” mother, or her mentor. Here they are just last week, clinging to Trump like he’s a god.

I’m all for criminal justice reform, and respect both women’s work to that end, but in a news radio interview just a couple weeks before her pardon, Stanton-King went deep into her support for the current occupant of the White House; she asked black listeners to look past Trump’s obsession with the Central Park Five and focus on his anti-choice stance. “Every black baby aborted is a black vote aborted,” she told WAOK host Juandolyn Stokes on Feb. 3, before blaming black media for not promoting her books, insisting black Americans are being played by the press. “We’re being fueled by hate, and not looking at the facts,” she declared. In June 2019, Stanton-King also voiced support for Alveda King’s fight to “not only defund Planned Parenthood but to overturn Roe v. Wade.” She told the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Friday that “It is time for war” on Democrats’ support of reproductive choice and abortion access.

She’s also wildly homophobic, as this tweet—just one day old as of this writing—makes clear.

Enough is Enough #LGBTQ pic.twitter.com/aVli0Xgc33

— Angela Stanton-King (@theangiestanton) March 6, 2020

She voices these stances even though (or perhaps because) one of her children is gay.

PSA: Calling me transphobic, homophobic or bringing up the fact that I have a grown Gay son will never silence me about the sexual perversion of #LGBTQ ?? or the blatant pedophilia that’s taking place before our eyes.

— Angela Stanton-King (@theangiestanton) March 4, 2020

BET, home to Stanton-King’s former reality show, pulled no punches with the headline “Black Trump Supporter Has The Audacity To Run For Congress Against Rep. John Lewis,” and questioned her sincerity: “It remains to be seen how genuine Angela Stanton-King’s motives are but her fate might be similar to Stacey Dash’s failed run for a congressional seat in a predominantly Black area in 2018,” the no-byline story notes.

Over on Twitter, one user predicted whose goals Stanton-King would serve.

Bloody Sunday inspired Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.

Outrageously, this historic civil rights law has been gutted by the Supreme Court.

But this will not stand. Those who risked their lives in Selma showed when people stand together for justice, nothing is impossible. https://t.co/b5taJowZmN

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) March 7, 2020

This would-be constituent was not swayed in her support of Rep. Lewis.

I live in the 5th District! I am all for restorative justice just wished the efforts went to innocent people wrongly convicted. I’ll be voting for Congressman Lewis! Foolishness!

After getting Trump pardon, Angela Stanton-King sets sights on Lewis https://t.co/c2MsC5kLUc

— T. Renée Crutcher (@sankofasongbird) March 7, 2020

Another user pointed out the level of arrogance required to challenge this particular incumbent.

The GIF responses are plentiful …

… but this GIF says it all.

BREAKING: Angela Stanton-King to run for Congress against Rep. John Lewis per Angela Stanton-King’s P.R. team. pic.twitter.com/gwAEOEho20

— CBS46 (@cbs46) March 6, 2020

Rep. Lewis, 80, is one of less affluent members of Congress; he announced he’d been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in late December.

This American badass was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.

John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and civil rights leader. He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, serving since 1987, and is the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. His district includes the northern three-quarters of Atlanta.

Lewis, who as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington, played many key roles in the Civil Rights Movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, Lewis is a member of the Democratic leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives and has served as a Chief Deputy Whip since 1991 and Senior Chief Deputy Whip since 2003. As Senior Chief Deputy Whip he has led other Chief Deputy Whips and serves as the primary assistant to the Democratic Whip.[citation ^needed]

Early life

Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama, the third son of Willie Mae (née Carter) and Eddie Lewis.^[1] His parents were sharecroppers.^[2] Lewis grew up in Pike County, Alabama. He has several siblings, including brothers Edward, Grant, Freddie, Sammy, Adolph, and William, and sisters named Ethel, Rosa, and Ora. Lewis had only seen two white people in his life until age six.^[3] Lewis was educated at the Pike County Training High School, Brundidge, Alabama, and also American Baptist Theological Seminary and at Fisk University, both in Nashville, Tennessee, where he became a leader in the Nashville sit-ins. While a student, he was invited to attendnonviolence workshops held in the basement of Clark Memorial United Methodist Church by the Rev. James Lawson and Rev. Kelly Miller Smith. There he became a dedicated adherent to the discipline and philosophy of nonviolence, which he still practices today.

The Nashville sit-in movement was responsible for the desegregation of lunch counters in downtown Nashville. Lewis was arrested and jailed many times in the struggle to desegregate the downtown area of the city. Afterwards, he participated in the Freedom Rides sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality or CORE, led by James Farmer and ultimately became a national leader in the struggle for civil rights and respect for human dignity.^[2] In an interview, John Lewis said "I saw racial discrimination as a young child. I saw those signs that said 'White Men, Colored Men, White Women, Colored Women'. ... I remember as a young child with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins going down to the public library trying to get library cards, trying to check some books out, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for 'coloreds'." During a rather dangerous childhood trip to Buffalo, New York, John saw for the first time black men and white men working together, desegregated water fountains, and for the first time, Lewis began to believe the dream of equality was more than just a dream. Lewis followed Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks on the radio. He and his family supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott.[citation ^needed]

Civil rights activism

John Lewis was the youngest of the Big Six civil rights leaders as chairman of SNCC from 1963 to 1966, some of the most tumultuous years of the Civil Rights Movement. During his tenure, SNCC opened Freedom Schools, launched the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and organized some of the voter registration efforts that led to the pivotal Selma to Montgomery marches. As the chairman of SNCC, Lewis had written a speech in reaction to the Civil Rights Bill of 1963. He denounced the bill because it didn't protect African Americans against police brutality. It also did not provide African Americans the right to vote.

He graduated from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville and then received a bachelor's degree in Religion and Philosophy from Fisk University. As a student, Lewis was very dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement. He organized sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Nashville and took part in many other civil rights activities as part of the Nashville Student Movement. He was instrumental in organizing student sit-ins, bus boycotts and nonviolent protests in the fight for voter and racial equality.

In 1960, Lewis became one of the 13 original Freedom Riders. There were seven whites and six blacks who were determined to ride from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans in an integrated fashion. At that time, several states of the old Confederacy still enforced laws prohibiting black and white riders from sitting next to each other on public transportation. The Freedom Ride, originated by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and revived by Farmer and CORE, was initiated to pressure the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia (1960) that declared segregated interstate bus travel to be unconstitutional. In the South, Lewis and other nonviolent Freedom Riders were beaten by angry mobs, arrested at times and taken to jail. When CORE gave up on the Freedom Ride because of the violence, Lewis and fellow activist Diane Nash arranged for the Nashville students to take it over and bring it to a successful conclusion.

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In March 2003, Lewis spoke to a crowd of 30,000 in Oregon during an anti-war protest before the start of the Iraq War.^[42] He was arrested in 2006^[43] and 2009 and outside the Sudan embassy in protest against the genocide in Darfur.^[44] He was one of eight U.S. Representatives, from six states, arrested while holding a sit-in near the west side of the U.S. Capitol building, to advocate for illegal immigration reform. The lawmakers' participation and subsequent arrest in the protest occurred despite the fact that the 2013 government shutdown was going on at the time.^[45] Lewis also led the 2016 House Democrats sit-in demanding that the House take action on gun control in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting and the failure of the United States Senate to act.^[46]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032002556.html

By Paul Kane

Washington Post Staff Writer

Saturday, March 20, 2010;10:25 PM

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said that racial epithets were hurled at them Saturday by angry protesters who had gathered at the Capitol to protest health-care legislation, and one congressman said he was spit upon. The most high-profile openly gay congressman, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), was heckled with anti-gay chants.[box sidebar]

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) issued a statement late Saturday saying that he was spit upon while walking to the Capitol to cast a vote, leading the Capitol Police to usher him into the building out of concern for his safety. Police detained the individual, who was then released because Cleaver declined to press charges.

"The congressman was walking into the Capitol to vote, when one protester spat on him. The congressman would like to thank the U.S. Capitol Police officer who quickly escorted the other Members and him into the Capitol, and defused the tense situation with professionalism and care," said Danny Rotert, a spokesman for Cleaver.

Protesters outside the Capitol hurled epithets at Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Andre Carson(D-Ind.) as they left the building after President Obama delivered an 11th-hour speech on behalf of the health care bill. Carson told reporters that protesters yelled "kill the bill," then used a racial epithet to describe Carson and Lewis, who is a revered figure on both sides of the aisle.

According to observers, Frank was confronted by about 100 protesters inside the Longworth House Office Building, where Democrats were huddling for another meeting about the legislation. Some targeted Frank with anti-gay epithets and urged him to vote against the bill.

And Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said in a statement, "On the one hand, I am saddened that America's debate on health care -- which could have been a national conversation of substance and respect -- has degenerated to the point of such anger and incivility. But on the other, I know that every step toward a more just America has aroused similar hate in its own time; and I know that John Lewis, a hero of the civil rights movement, has learned to wear the worst slurs as a badge of honor."Democratic leaders and their aides said they were outraged by the day's behavior. "I have heard things today that I have not heard since March 15, 1960, when I was marching to get off the back of the bus," said House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the highest-ranking black official in Congress.

"This is not the first time the congressman has been called the "n" word and certainly not the worst assault he has endured in his years fighting for equal rights for all Americans," said Rotert, Cleaver's spokesman. "That being said, he is disappointed that in the 21st century our national discourse has devolved to the point of name-calling and spitting."

The incidents followed a noontime protest on the west side of the Capitol that drew several thousand people from around the country for a "Code Red" rally against the health-care bill.Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) addressed the crowd.

As that rally ended, some protesters moved around to the south side of the Capitol, near the entrance to the House chamber, and across the east front of the complex.

On the first day of spring, most lawmakers walked across the street from their office buildings to the Capitol, rather than using the underground tunnels. That brought them into contact with protesters forming a gauntlet on each side of the walkway leading into the House. At one point, when Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) wanted to walk across the street to an office building, he was ushered into a car by his security detail and driven a couple hundred feet through the screaming crowd.

Saturday evening, more than a handful of House Republicans held an impromptu rally on the Capitol steps. Using a megaphone, the lawmakers urged on the crowd. Shortly after 6 p.m., Rep. Ted Poe (R-Tex.) dared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to come out onto the House steps and address the more than 1,000 people who were gathered at the foot of the Capitol, prompting a loud and angry chant of "Nancy, Nancy, Nancy."

The protesters believe that the Obama administration and Congress are ignoring the public's opposition to the $940 billion legislation, which they consider it to be a government takeover of the health-care system. They carried signs saying "Remember in November"; one carried a broomstick with cardboard pasted onto it with the label "Here's Your Ride," for Pelosi.

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Hannity asks if reports of racial insults by Tea Party are "an effort to smear conservatives"

S.E. Cupp references "Black Negro College Fund"

Video ››› March 24, 2010 9:41 PM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/**2010/03/22/**tea-party-protesters-dispute-reports-slurs-spitting-against-dem-lawmakers.html

Abusive, derogatory and even racist behavior directed at House Democrats by Tea Party protesters on Saturday left several lawmakers in shock.

Preceding the president’s speech to a gathering of House Democrats, thousands of protesters descended around the Capitol to protest the passage of health care reform. The gathering quickly turned into abusive heckling, as members of Congress passing through Longworth House office building were subjected to epithets and even mild physical abuse.

A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) had been spat on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a ‘ni—er.’ And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a “faggot,” as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president’s speech, shrugged off the incident.

But Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed such treatment since he was leading civil rights protests in South Carolina in the 1960s.

“It was absolutely shocking to me,” Clyburn said, in response to a question from the Huffington Post. “Last Monday, this past Monday, I stayed home to meet on the campus of Claflin University where fifty years ago as of last Monday... I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit ins... And quite frankly I heard some things today I have not heard since that day. I heard people saying things that I have not heard since March 15, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus.”

“It doesn’t make me nervous as all,” the congressman said, when asked how the mob-like atmosphere made him feel. “In fact, as I said to one heckler, I am the hardest person in the world to intimidate, so they better go somewhere else.”

Asked if he wanted an apology from the group of Republican lawmakers who had addressed the crowd and, in many ways, played on their worst fears of health care legislation, the Democratic Party, and the president, Clyburn replied:

“A lot of us have been saying for a long time that much of this, much of this is not about health care a all. And I think a lot of those people today demonstrated that this is not about health care... it is about trying to extend a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful.”

UPDATE 6:55 PM ET: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s office released the following statement:

For many of the members of the CBC, like John Lewis and Emanuel Cleaver who worked in the civil rights movement, and for Mr. Frank who has struggled in the cause of equality, this is not the first time they have been spit on during turbulent times.

This afternoon, the Congressman was walking into the Capitol to vote, when one protester spat on him. The Congressman would like to thank the US Capitol Police officer who quickly escorted the others Members and him into the Capitol, and defused the tense situation with professionalism and care. After all the Members were safe, a full report was taken and the matter was handled by the US Capitol Police. The man who spat on the Congressman was arrested, but the Congressman has chosen not to press charges. He has left the matter with the Capitol Police.

This is not the first time the Congressman has been called the “n” word and certainly not the worst assault he has endured in his years fighting for equal rights for all Americans. That being said, he is disappointed that in the 21st century our national discourse has devolved to the point of name calling and spitting. He looks forward to taking a historic vote on health care reform legislation tomorrow, for the residents of the Fifth District of Missouri and for all Americans. He believes deeply that tomorrow’s vote is, in fact, a vote for equality and to secure health care as a right for all. Our nation has a history of struggling each time we expand rights. Today’s protests are no different, but the Congressman believes this is worth fighting for.

UPDATE 7:48 PM ET: The Buffalo News reports that Rep. Louise Slaughter’s district office in Pine View, New York, was vandalized on Saturday.

Sometime early this morning, someone threw a brick through the front window of her Pine Avenue office.

The damage was discovered about 12:30 a.m., city police said.

The brick put a hole in the outer-most window at the office at 1910 Pine Ave., but did not damage a second interior window, police reported. A piece of broken brick believed to have caused the damage was found at the scene.

Damage was estimated at $350.

UPDATE 8:57 PM ET: The Associated Press reports that Capitol Police arrested the man who spit on Cleaver, but the Congressman won’t press charges.

See some of the signs from today’s protests below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/tea-party-protests-nier-f_n_507116.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/28/congressman-spit-on-by-te_n_516300.html

MARCH 20, 2010 4:51 PM

Tea party protesters scream 'nigger' at black congressman

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., said he was a few yards behind Lewis and distinctly heard "nigger."

"It was a chorus," Cleaver said. "In a way, I feel sorry for those people who are doing this nasty stuff - they're being whipped up. I decided I wouldn't be angry with any of them."

Cleaver's office said later in a statement that he'd also been spat upon and that Capitol Police had arrested his assailant. The statement praised the police, who Cleaver said escorted the members of Congress into the Capitol past the demonstrators.

"The man who spat on the congressman was arrested, but the congressman has chosen not to press charges," the statement said.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article24577294.html#storylink=cpy

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