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The daughter of a top Democrat in Congress was charged on Monday with graffitiing a Boston monument with the slogan 'all cops are b*****ds', flailing around during her arrest and smashing a police officer in the nose, giving him a nosebleed.

Riley Dowell, 23, appeared before a judge in Boston accompanied by her father, Rodney S. Dowell, a well-known local attorney and legal consultant.

Her mother, Katherine Clark, is the House Minority Whip.

Dowell, who was born male and transitioned to female, was arraigned under their birth name, Jared.

She pleaded not guilty to charges including assault and battery on a police officer and vandalizing a historic marker or monument. 

She was released on the $500 cash bail she had previously posted, with orders that she stay away from the Common while the case is pending. 

Dowell was one of around 20 Antifa protesters who took to the streets of Boston on Saturday evening. 

A police report filed in the case, cited by The Boston Globe, said officers were on 'high alert' on Saturday, expecting an anti-law-enforcement demonstration in solidarity with 'Atlanta Forest Defenders'.

An environmental activist, who went by the name Tortuguita, was killed by police after officials said the 26-year-old shot a state trooper.

Tortuguita died on Wednesday as authorities cleared a small group of protesters from the site of a planned Atlanta-area public safety training center that activists have dubbed 'Cop City.'

Clark said in a statement that her daughter's arrest was a 'difficult time.' 

'Last night, my daughter was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts,' Clark wrote on Twitter. 

'I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting. This will be evaluated by the legal system, and I am confident in that process.'