“Since being elected to Congress, I have been swatted at least nine times—deliberate attempts to provoke a deadly police response through false and highly exaggerated threats,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted on X on Monday. Unfortunately, the most recent swatting incident at MTG’s home in Rome, Ga., resulted in the death of an innocent victim.
On Monday morning, Rodney Bailey, the city’s assistant police chief, discovered an email that stated that a bomb had been placed in the congresswoman’s mailbox. An officer was sent to MTG’s home, and, according to a statement released by the Rome Police Department, Bailey “informed the commander of the Rome/Floyd Bomb Squad of the situation. The squad mobilized and dispatched operators to respond, non-emergency, to the Bomb Squad Headquarters.”
Rome Police Sergeant and bomb squad member David Metroka was driving his personal truck en route to the squad’s headquarters. Sadly, 66-year-old Tammie Pickelsimer pulled out in front of him from a parking lot, and the two vehicles collided. Pickelsimer was taken to a local hospital, but unfortunately, she succumbed to her injuries. Metroka was also…
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