Rep. Al Green

Rep. Al Green, an African-American Congressman from Texas, said that he’s been threatened with lynching by callers infuriated over him seeking impeachment of President Donald Trump.

The Houston representative said the threats came en masse after he said Trump committed obstruction of justice and no one’s above the law on the House floor earlier on Wednesday in light of the James Comey debacle. He was the first Congressman to do so from the house floor.

Green held a town hall meeting and played recordings of several threatening voicemails left at his offices in Houston and Washington, the Houston Chronicle reports.

“You ain’t going to impeach nobody. Try it and we will lynch all of you,” a caller said in one of several threatening recordings the Houston Democrat played at a town hall meeting Saturday. “You’ll be hanging from a tree.”

“You ain’t going to impeach anybody. Try it and we will lynch all of you,” said another.

Other callers used graphic racial slurs, some calling Green the n-word.

The seven-term Democrat, a former president of the Houston branch of the NAACP, told the crowd of about 100 people that he won’t be deterred.

“We are not going to be intimidated,” Green said at the town hall meeting. “We are not going to allow this to cause us to deviate from what we believe to be the right thing to do and that is to proceed with the impeachment of President Trump.

“You cannot allow hate to be hidden,” Green added. “You have to expose hate. Hate is a means by which people can be harmed. It’s an evil. The best way to deal with evil is to expose.”