Another day, another confrontation of a political figure in a public place.
On Saturday, President Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon was shopping at Black Swan Books, an independent bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, when a customer approached him and called him a "piece of trash," according to Richmond Times-Dispatch. Unlike Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was actually asked to leave by the owner of a restaurant, the owner of Black Swan Books came to Bannon's defense.
"Steve Bannon was simply standing, looking at books, minding his own business. I asked her to leave, and she wouldn’t," Nick Cooke, the owner of the bookstore, said to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "And I said, 'I’m going to call the police if you don’t,' and I went to call the police and she left. And that’s the end of the story."
Cooke explained, "We are a bookshop. Bookshops are all about ideas and tolerating different opinions and not about verbally assaulting somebody, which is what was happening."
There were no further details on the interaction between the woman and Bannon. Her identity has not been revealed. The Richmond Police Department confirmed a "report of someone yelling at a political figure" at about 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Times-Dispatch. The call was canceled before officers responded to the situation.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was heckled at a Mexican restaurant in June for the "zero-tolerance" immigration policies. Last week, the now former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was approached by a woman with her 2-year-old son in a Washington D.C. restaurant and urged him to resign.
