Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga, talks to press reporters as she leaves the Capitol after the last vote of the week on Friday, May 14, 2021.
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Police officers appeared atRep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s house overnight after a supposed challenger of her position on transgender rights made an incorrect 911 call, authorities in Georgia stated Wednesday.
The “swatting” call wrongly declared that a guy had actually been shot numerous times in a bath tub at a house in Rome, Georgia, the city’s authorities department stated in a report shown CNBC.
The Rome Police Department at 1: 04 a.m. ET dispatched 5 officers, who discovered en path that they were headed to Greene’s home, the report stated. They called the doorbell and were satisfied by the Republican congresswoman, who “assured us there was no issue,” the report stated.
A spokesperson for the department informed CNBC that the officers inspected Greene’s house.
Afterward, the department got a 2nd call from a suspect utilizing a computer-generated voice who declared obligation for the occurrence.
The suspect “explained that they were upset about Ms. Greene’s stance on ‘trans-gender youth’s rights’, and stated that they were trying to ‘SWAT’ her,” the authorities report stated.
The department stated it is dealing with the U.S. Capitol Police on the examination, which stays active. The Capitol Police decreased CNBC’s ask for remark.
Greene, a reactionary legislator backed by previous President Donald Trump, had actually presented an expense in Congress recently that would make it a felony to offer gender-affirming care to transgender minors.
The legislation came amidst a growing conservative motion versus those treatments that just recently targeted Boston Children’s Hospital, which stated recently that it is handling an increase of hostile calls and e-mails, consisting of dangers of violence.
“Right now, Congresswoman Greene’s safety is our number one concern,” Greene’s spokesperson, Nick Dyer, stated in a declaration to CNBC.
Dyer called Greene the “victim of a political attack on her family and home” and likewise explained it as a “violent crime,” though no violence is declared to have actually happened.
Greene very first exposed being knocked in a tweet.
In an interview later on Wednesday, Greene stated she was surprised by the authorities existence at her house, however chose not to bring a weapon as she responded to the door, “which was very out of norm for me.”
The swatter threatened both her and the officers, Greene stated in the interview with “Real America’s Voice,” a conservative outlet. “Whoever this person is, they deserve to be locked up,” she stated.
