Protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday outside a Kentucky restaurant. It all happened when McConnell was walking outside the Bristol Bar & Grille in Louisville, according to the Courier Journal. Chants of “vote you out” are heard on the clip. A protester is also heard asking, “What are you doing to get the babies back?” Another one calls the Senator a “turtle head.” McConnell does not appear to react to the protest and instead simply gets in his car and leaves. After the protest, the Louisville Democratic Socialists of America tweeted out the video with the caption: “Powerful people like Mitch deserve no peace while they enable the imprisonment of babies in concentration camps.” A group of Louisville residents, including several @DemSocialists members, had a message for Mitch McConnell as he left a local restaurant today. Powerful people like Mitch deserve no peace while they enable the imprisonment of babies in concentration camps. #AbolishICE pic.twitter.com/ruCXhbnKse — Louisville DSA ?? (@dsa_louisville) July 7, 2018 Just last month, McConnell was caught by protesters while leaving a dinner at Georgetown University. The protesters then played audio of sounds of crying separated migrant kids published by ProPublica. A group of protesters confronts Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao with @ProPublica’s audio of children separated from their families at the border while leaving a @Georgetown event. pic.twitter.com/jRKHKBeFpC — Jesus Rodriguez (@jesusrodriguezb) June 26, 2018 In February, protesters also held a die-in outside of McConnell’s Kentucky home. Watch above, via Twitter [image via screengrab] Have a tip we should know? [email protected]<doc-sep>About a half-dozen chanting protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday as he left a Louisville, Kentucky restaurant and warned him that they knew his address. According to at least one video posted on You Tube — the demonstrators could be seen making their own films with their cellphones — the chanters vowed “no justice, no peace” and warned of more. “We know where you live, Mitch. We know where you live,” one male voice could be heard saying. Other chants or screams that could be frequently heard in the one-minute clip were “vote you out,” “Where are the babies, Mitch?” and “Abolish ICE.” Mr. McConnell and his companion — TMZ reported that it was Kentucky House Majority Leader Jonathan Shell — did not acknowledge the attacks or threats as they left the restaurant, which seems to be the Bristol Bar & Grille in Bardstown Road’s food and entertainment district, and drove off. There was no indication from the video of whether they had chased the two men from the restaurant, as has happened to Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen in Washington, or got inside it at all. Mr. Shell dismissed the yellers to TMZ as “a small group of extremists” playing a game “out of the Maxine Waters playbook.” Mrs. Waters, a Democratic member of the U.S. House from Los Angeles, has called on all her supporters to chase administration figures from any public space. “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome any more, anywhere,” she told a cheering crowd last month. Sign up for Daily Newsletters Manage Newsletters Copyright © 2021 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.<doc-sep>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got hounded by a group of protesters in his home state of Kentucky on Saturday — with some shouting “Abolish ICE” and others threatening to pay a visit to his humble abode. “We know where you live, Mitch!” shouted one protester. “We know where you live!” McConnell was confronted outside Louisville’s Bristol Bar & Grille, just moments after having dinner on Saturday, according to reports. Video posted online by the Courier-Journal shows protesters running up behind the Republican leader and yelling numerous things at him, most of which were related to President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the separation of families at the southern US border. “Abolish ICE! Abolish ICE!” the group screamed. “Where are the babies?” asked one protester. “What are you doing to get the babies back?” McConnell has been a vocal supporter of Trump’s policy, so the demonstrators tried their best to make him sweat Saturday. “Vote you out! Vote you out!” the group shouted. “Turtle head!” yelled one man. Kentucky politician Jonathan Shell, who was dining with McConnell, confirmed Sunday that the incident took place and referred to the protesters as “a small group of extremists.” He blasted the man who threatened to pay a visit to the senator’s home, calling his comments “very distasteful.” “[It’s a] not-so-subtle threat right out of the Maxine Waters playbook,” Shell told the Journal, referring to the US House Democrat from California, who has been urging protesters to confront White House officials. Saturday’s encounter was attended by members of Louisville’s Democratic Socialists of America, but the chapter said in a statement that the protester who made the “We know where you live” comment was unaffiliated. It wasn’t the first time McConnell has been accosted in public over his support for Trump’s immigration policy. Protesters confronted him just a few weeks ago at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, as he was leaving a dinner with his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. That faceoff was also caught on camera. “How do you sleep at night?” shouted one demonstrator, prompting another to ask why he was separating families. “He’s not,” Chao said. “Why don’t you leave my husband alone?! Leave my husband alone!” McConnell has not yet commented on Saturday’s incident. A spokesman declined to speak when reached by the Journal.<doc-sep>
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was confronted on Saturday by a small group of chanting protesters as he left a Kentucky restaurant. A video posted by the Louisville Democratic Socialists of America shows McConnell and his group leaving Louisville’s Bristol Bar & Grille and walking to his vehicle, followed by protesters shouting various slogans, including, “Vote you out,” “Abolish ICE,” and “No justice, no peace.” “A group of Louisville residents, including several @DemSocialists members, had a message for Mitch McConnell as he left a local restaurant today,” Louisville DSA tweeted. “Powerful people like Mitch deserve no peace while they enable the imprisonment of babies in concentration camps. #AbolishICE” The Courier-Journal reported that McConnell was “out to lunch with Kentucky’s outgoing House Majority Floor Leader Jonathan Shell, who was upset in his May primary.” “Where are the babies, Mitch?” one protester asked, referring to a policy separating migrant children from their parents at the border, which was recently ended by President Trump. (RELATED: Protesters Gather Outside White House Adviser Stephen Miller’s Apartment, Pass Out ‘Wanted’ Flyers) “Yeah, we know where you live too, Mitch,” the same protester appeared to tell McConnell. “We know where you live!” Shell called the protesters “a small group of extremists,” adding that the comment about knowing where McConnell lives was a “not-so-subtle threat right out of the Maxine Waters playbook.” Although McConnell appeared not to react to the protesters, one could be heard saying, “We did good,” to the group. (RELATED: ‘Fascist Pig!’ — Chanting Socialists Chase DHS Secretary Nielsen Out Of Mexican Restaurant) Follow Scott on Facebook and Twitter.