By Kate Feldman
Source New York Daily News
Georgia police were lured to right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s house early Wednesday morning by a fake 9-1-1 call.
Officers responded to an emergency call at 1:03 a.m. that claimed someone had been shot multiple times at Greene’s house, according to the Rome Police Department.
When they arrived, no victims could be found.
A second 9-1-1 call made by a computer-generated voice said “they were upset about Greene’s view on transgender youth rights,” officials said.
“I can’t express enough gratitude to my local law enforcement here in Rome, Floyd County,” Greene, 48, tweeted Wednesday morning.
The incident is being investigated as “swatting,” when someone places a fake 9-1-1 call to draw police to a specific location.
In 2013, the FBI called swatting “a serious crime” with “potentially dangerous consequences.” Many incidents come from the online gaming community, including a Kansas gamer who pleaded guilty in May to his role in a swatting call that led Wichita police to his opponent’s home, where an officer shot and killed him.
Ohio gamer Casey Viner, upset about a $1.50 bet he lost in “Call of Duty,” was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2015 for recruiting a prankster to make a fake 911 call that left a Kansas man fatally shot by police.
Greene has been behind some of the worst rumor-mongering about trans people as a fear and furor has built nationwide. Last week, she introduced a bill to make it a felony to provide gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors and ban the use of federal funds for gender-affirming health care, such as through the Affordable Healthcare Act.
She has also been vocal in her attacks on drag queens, falsely labeling them “groomers.”
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