Protesters heckle Florida AG Pam Bondi outside showing of Mr. Rogers documentary
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Protesters heckled Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday at a showing of a documentary about children’s TV host Fred Rogers, challenging her support of the Trump administration’s stance on immigration and the state’s decision to join a lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act.
After watching “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” a documentary about the fabled Mr. Rogers, Bondi was shouted at by demonstrators and had to be escorted by police, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
"What would Mr. Rogers think about you and your legacy in Florida? Taking away health insurance from people with pre-existing conditions, Pam Bondi,” one protester reportedly shouted.
"You're a horrible person!" another is quoted as calling out.
Bondi told the publication Saturday that she didn’t believe the heckler’s actions were in line with the teachings of Mr. Rogers, whose "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," which ran on PBS and its forerunners from 1968 to 2001, emphasized inclusivity and acceptance of all people.
"We were in a movie about anti-bullying and practicing peace and love and tolerance and accepting of people for their differences," she said. “We all believe in free speech, but there's a big difference there."
Friday’s incident happened on the same day that White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was thrown out of a Virginia restaurant over her connections to the Trump administration.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Bondi is a friend and associate of President* Trump, he may have even attempted to grab her hooha at one point, for all we know.
In other words, she probably deserves being heckled at a public movie theater. However, I wish liberal activists would not make heckling these people a habit. Just vote her out of office, that is the best revenge.
last week you supported anarchism, now you support old fashioned Nazism. You really do hate liberty.
Tell us how you would have reacted if conservatives followed Obama Cabinet members or Josh Ernest into restaurants and movie theaters and harassed them?
You despise the right of individuals to go about their private lives. You are endorsing violence against US citizens as normal behavior
I don't support heckling anyone , although I do see why the protesters feel it is worth their time.
This is just beginning. These people are unworthy and a disgrace to American idealism.
You are confirming something about yourself as well as the leftist hecklers - the nature of who you are!
We now seem to have a movement on the part of the left to confront those they disagree with in public places.
Maxine Waters calls for protesters to confront Trump officials in public: "Tell them they're not welcome anymore" http:// hill.cm/XeDrbEW
Can you not see what YOUR people are doing John??? They are intentionally destroying America with their hatred - and, judging from your posts/seeds/articles/threads, you appear to revel in it.
Sad - really sad.
"They are intentionally destroying America with their hatred"
sounds like you are describing Trumpism
What is wrong with these totalitarians or progressives or whatever you want to call them?
It's like they are doing everything in their power to destroy the country and start a civil war.
It's because they despise our constitutional republic and want some form of Stalinism or Fascism as their preference.
Really? The 'so called left', at least for decades, did not entreat an oligarch Russia, a fear/slave state like N. Korea, or autocrats such as Erdogan and Duarte.
Fascist Stalinist whatever----------yeah, Trump, Miller, Gorka, Bannon--------and there are more of them too.
Shadow Walker.