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Eugene

(62,775 posts)
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 09:27 AM Dec 10

Marjorie Greene swatting: Russian Pipe Bomb Hoax Kills Innocent Woman

Source: The Daily Beast

Marjorie Taylor Greene Russian Pipe Bomb Hoax Kills Innocent Woman

An email sent from a Russian IP address claimed a pipe bomb had been left in the lawmaker’s mailbox.

Janna Brancolini
Updated Dec. 10 2024 8:21AM EST /
Published Dec. 10 2024 7:05AM EST

A woman is dead after police in Georgia received an email from a Russian IP address claiming the sender had left a pipe bomb in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s mailbox.

A police officer responding to the scene hit another car, killing its driver, the Republican congresswoman confirmed on X.

“I’m heartsick right now,” Greene wrote.

The Rome Police Department’s assistant chief of police received an email Monday with the subject “For Palestine” that said the sender had created a pipe bomb using “a 1x8-inch threaded galvanized pipe, end caps, a kitchen timer, some wires, metal clips and homemade black powder.”

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-heartsick-after-woman-killed-by-bomb-squad-responding-to-her-home/

Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/news/mtg-heartsick-woman-killed-bomb-120521934.html

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Marjorie Greene swatting: Russian Pipe Bomb Hoax Kills Innocent Woman (Original Post) Eugene Dec 10 OP
This is Marge's fault. Dennis Donovan Dec 10 #1
LE over-responds bucolic_frolic Dec 10 #2

Dennis Donovan

(27,475 posts)
1. This is Marge's fault.
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 09:40 AM
Dec 10

If she wasn't a king-sized asshole, she wouldn't have people threatening her.

not really...

bucolic_frolic

(47,615 posts)
2. LE over-responds
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 09:40 AM
Dec 10

A phone call, stay away from your mailbox would suffice for the xtra 5 minutes it would take to send a squad car. I mean there are thousands of these swat hoaxes, no need to make them worse with self-forced errors.

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