Police were called to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Georgia home recently, as she said after someone made a prank call to officials saying there was an emergency there. She said that it was the sixth \u201cswatting\u201d episode that targeted the controversial Republican congresswoman since August.<\/p>\n
This is what Greene wrote on Twitter the next day: \u201cI was swatted for the 6th time last night.\u201d \u201cSwatting is a very serious crime,\u201d she continued. \u201cThe caller wants to have their victim murdered by police. But it is also a giant abuse of police resources and time, which is another reason it is a serious crime. God bless my local police,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The incidents began in August, when cops in Rome, Ga. were called to her house two nights in a row, the lawmaker said, per a report on NY Post<\/a>. 911 dispatchers were told that, in the first incident, there was a shooting at the residence. The night after that, someone identified themselves as a transgender individual named Wayne Greene and said that he planned to kill himself and his family at the location.<\/p>\n Apparently, the fake phone call was a reference to the far-right lawmaker\u2019s opposition to so-called \u201cgender-affirming\u201d medical care for minors. Officers \u201cdid receive a false report of a crime at \u2026 Greene\u2019s residence\u201d and said the FBI was investigating, Debbie Burnett, who is the Rome Police Assistant Chief, has confirmed to The Post.<\/p>\n The has city 37,000 residents and is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains 70 miles northwest of Atlanta. These swatting incidents already began weeks before Greene\u2019s husband Perry filed for divorce.<\/p>\n Regarding her divorce, Greene told The Post<\/a> in a statement that \u201cmarriage is a wonderful thing and I\u2019m a firm believer in it.\u201d \u201cOur society is formed by a husband and wife creating a family to nurture and protect. Together, Perry and I formed our family and raised three great kids. He gave me the best job title you can ever earn: Mom,\u201d Greene said. \u201cI\u2019ll always be grateful for how great of a dad he is to our children,\u201d added Greene.<\/p>\n According to court documents, the Georgia congresswoman\u2019s husband, Perry Greene, filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage. Perry Greene said the couple had split up in the past. He wants to divvy up their assets and debts equally, the filing says, according to court documents.<\/p>\n Calling her \u201can amazing mom,\u201d Perry Greene said his wife has been his \u201cbest friend\u201d for the last 29 years. \u201cOur family is our most important thing we have done,\u201d Perry said in a statement. \u201cAs we go on different paths we will continue to focus on our 3 incredible kids and their future endeavors and our friendship,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police were called to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Georgia home recently, as she said after someone made a prank call to officials saying there was an emergency there. She said that it was the sixth \u201cswatting\u201d episode that targeted the controversial Republican congresswoman since August. This is what Greene wrote on Twitter the next day: … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}