Representative Marjorie Greene announced the swatting of her daughters’ homes
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is among the conservatives who experienced swatting. This is an event where someone calls the police and reports a serious crime. Either this crime is in progress or had just occurred. However, neither is in progress. The reality is that nothing is happening, but the police respond anyway. For Representative Greene, the swatting didn’t stop with her. Both of her daughters recently got swatted.
From The Post Millennial:
“Both my daughters’ houses just got swatted today,” Greene wrote on Twitter. “Big thanks to the police who responded! We appreciate you and support you! Whoever is doing this, you are going to get caught and it won’t be funny to you anymore.”
Both my daughter’s houses just got swatted today.
Big thanks to the police who responded! We appreciate you and support you!
Whoever is doing this, you are going to get caught and it won’t be funny to you anymore.@FBI
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) December 28, 2023
On Christmas morning, Greene announced that she was swatted. “This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this. I appreciate them so much and my family and I are in joyous spirits celebrating the birth of our savior Jesus Christ!”
Greene has been swatted multiple times at her home in Georgia. In August 2022, Greene’s home was swatted by a trans activist who claimed that someone at her home has been “shot five times in the chest, in a bathtub.”
The extent that some would go to strike at those they disagree with. The Post Millennial has additional information here.
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Who amongst us wouldn’t want to do a little “swatting” with MTG?…on her little panty clad bottom? I’ll see myself out.
Pays to know the local popo. Had an ex try to do this one time. Serious sh^t…and should have serious charges against the perps.
If you’re famous, get to know your local police to avoid them actually busting in. I saw the video when Tim Pool got swatted the first time. They had walk around while he was doing a broadcast. Each successive swatting was just the cops knocking on the door just to let him know that his detractors were “at it again”. Anybody that calls in a SWATTING should themselves be SAWATTED. I mean bust the door down, guns drawn, K-9’s, cuffed…the whole 9-yrads.
Swatting should be viewed as nothing short of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Not funny when someone calls the cops on you.
Be polite and unaggressive and they will leave.
Hopefully without you.
Last job on earth I would take.
Ought to be a law that allows the state to charge the swater with attempted murder or murder if someone managed die from the incident. Swaters, Special Weapons and Tactics is NOT your personal hit squad.
Styxhexenhammer released a video on MTG and Posobiec’s swatting, recommending that Attempted Murder charges be filed against the people responsible for the swatting incidents. Funny…you had the usual anti-cop and so on replies, along with a lot of people who support the idea.
There’s little arguing that the police have become somewhat militarized. Funny thing, but I seem to recall having read that this was largely in response to the rise of left-wing extremists and rampant crime in the 1960s. Now, those same individuals are using heavily armed police to go after people they disagree with. I don’t care to find examples at the moment, but some of the worst ones have been online gamers who disagree with one another, resulting in one swatting the other and a lost life due to overaggressive police coupled with ignorant Cheeto-stained hand teenagers who never fathomed that they’d be staring down the barrel of a gun because they had words with a stranger on Minecraft.
Within hours of his video, Styx posted that he’d been swatted himself. He lives in the Netherlands with his wife but is back in Vermont for the holidays and has some firearms, so fortunately, he wasn’t perceived as a threat.
There are a lot of things we could reform with police in this country, but to me the most important one would probably be to have them vet emergency calls. If you believe in “Defund the Police!”, maybe hire some social workers and crisis responders to differentiate between true emergencies and cries of “WOLF!”. Then, when you call 911 to report that person you loath so much that you’d rather see them killed than continue to say hurtful words, those same social workers and responders can call BS on your claim, before the real police come to your door and take away the criminal.
We had dispatch call the caller back. If the call had the ID # blocked, one car would be sent to do a drive-by, if safe. We’d usually sit down the street and listen.
Also, lack of other calls from neighbors reporting shots and/or screams is a good indicator that it’s a bullshit call.
Define “vet the call”. Are you volunteering to be the social worker to respond to a call about a shooting that might not be true? It’s all nice to be spouting stuff like that after the fact from the safety of your keyboard, it’s another to actually have to go up to the house and find out if there really is someone with a gun / knife busy hurting folks. Especially an unarmed social worker.
There are times when a call is doubtful, simply because the nature of it seems like there should be multiple calls regarding the incident. Like a shooting yet lots of folks “do not want to get involved” and don’t bother to do anything but lock their own doors. It doesn’t mean really bad things are not happening.
“Vet the call” from this keyboard warrior means that armed police back up well-trained unarmed responders for potential “swatting” incidents. UpNorth’s reply seems like a better approach perhaps: attempt to call the initial reporter back, send a passive police unit out, and wait for potential corresponding reports. I’ve got enough experience to know that when someone is in trouble there are often multiple witnesses willing to report such.
We don’t need heavily armed and militarized police responding to every allegation of domestic violence or other altercations. We also don’t need someone like me–who withdrew from something as simple as a Drug and Alcohol Counseling Certificate program–dictating what is best for such situations.
For First Responders: take a breath…think for a moment…realize that these are American Citizens [and potentially harmless], and don’t send in the disgruntled would-be Super-Soldiers/Cops wearing the latest and greatest SWAT gear. Swatting is being weaponized because those who don’t like certain agendas realize it’s effective to either intimidate or, worst case scenario, eliminate opposition.
IMNSHO SWATters should at a minimum be charged with attempted murder.
I would support a public hanging however.
Shit like that makes me in favor of reinstating the uses of horsewhipping and/or the pillory.
I’m willing to bet a case of good beer and a bottle of booze that once caught, the perp will be screeching and begging for the system to take it easy on him or her.
After all he/she/it is on the right side of history.
Just ask it.
Being stupid should hurt purportional to the degree of stupidity
I wholeheartedly concur!
Rick Scott was a victim on Christmas Day but wasn’t at home. He let them in remotely to let them look around and they left.
Mostly after the first time it is pointless. The police keep records of calls. The moron caller is more likely to kill someone when a responding officer hits someone in a traffic wreck because they don’t get out of the way of the lights and sirens. Probably some kid. Because only one LEO is going to go to the BS call to confirm it is BS.
Seems odd that the cops can’t ID who’s making the bogus calls. Blocked numbers should, in this case, bump charges up to first degree as they are clearly planning beforehand. When caught, hammer.