{"id":21193,"date":"2023-12-26T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=21193"},"modified":"2023-12-26T13:59:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T18:59:33","slug":"marjorie-taylor-greene-made-of-target-of-failed-of-swatting-attempt-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/marjorie-taylor-greene-made-of-target-of-failed-of-swatting-attempt-on-christmas\/21193\/","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie Taylor Greene made of target of failed of swatting attempt on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was targeted for a swatting attempt at her Georgia residence on Christmas morning, the congresswoman and local police said, marking the latest instance of someone calling in a fake emergency to draw armed officers or SWAT teams to her home.<\/p>\n<p>Department spokesperson Kelly Madden said that the call was verified and was concluded as hoax by the Rome police department, because of which they did not deploy any force at her residence.<\/p>\n<p>Taking it to X, formerly known as Twitter, Greene wrote, \u201cI was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn\u2019t have to deal with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was just swatted.<\/p>\n<p>This is like the 8th time.<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas with my family here.<\/p>\n<p>My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn\u2019t have to deal with this.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate them so much and my family and I are in joyous spirits celebrating the birth of our savior Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@RepMTG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1739312209996497293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Madden shared that a man from New York had made the call at Georgia\u2019s suicide hotline saying that he has shot his girlfriend at Greene\u2019s home and will be killing himself next. The call was quickly transferred to the police department as soon as the suicide hotline responders recognized the Georgia congresswoman\u2019s address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was targeted for a swatting attempt at her Georgia residence on Christmas morning, the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":21212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6498],"class_list":["post-21193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-majorie-talyor-greene"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}