Oakland Mayor Jean Quan can’t catch a break.

Quan was visiting Washington, D.C., for the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting when she was spotted riding in a cab by Occupy DC protesters and surrounded.

Quan sat in the cab and shielded her face while roughly a dozen protesters surrounded the car and chanted, “Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!”

“We were busy talking away, and I looked up and there were all these protesters there,” Quan said in a interview with the Oakland Tribune. “I think they freaked out the taxi driver.”

Police moved in and pushed the protesters out of the way so the cabbie could speed off.

Demonstrators have been protesting outside of Quan’s hotel for days, said Sue Piper, Quan’s spokeswoman.

“The Mayor is in Washington to focus on the issues that are important to our city—jobs creation, transportation, public safety—and the ongoing impact of double-digit unemployment plaguing the country,” she said.

Quan attracted national attention when police fired tear gas Oct. 25 at Occupy Oakland protesters angered that their encampment had been cleared earlier in the day. Quan was in D.C. that day, too, and later said she had been in the dark about the raid, telling reporters, “I don’t know everything.”