Five years after his death at the age of 80, protesters across the country remembered the late Rep. John Lewis, a Freedom Rider whose march for equality was built around the concept of getting into “good trouble.”
To honor his life and work, which included 33 years in Washington D.C., activists in downtown Tampa took to Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park where they rallied against Donald Trump, decried a growing fascist state, pushed back against the White House’s deportation efforts, and yes, troll the president with signs about his desire to stop talking about his long relationship with Jeffery Epstein.
Others continued to talk about the Epstein files, however, alluding the growing bipartisan skepticism over a memo from Tampa woman and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, which said that there was no client list connected to the convicted sex trafficker who allegedly committed suicide in prison…