Election workers get death threats from Trumpers

[pecksniff]

Reuters.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Death threats from angry Trump supporters forced Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman, a 62-year-old grandmother, to flee her home of 20 years. Some messages called for her hanging; one urged people to “hunt” her. Freeman showed hundreds of menacing messages to police and called 911 three times.

But a year after Donald Trump and his allies falsely accused Freeman - along with her daughter and co-worker Wandrea “Shaye” Moss - of election fraud, the threats have not been investigated by local police or state authorities, according to a Reuters review of Georgia law enforcement records. Federal agents have monitored some of the threats, but made no arrests.

Offering the first detailed account of their ordeal, the two women told Reuters about threats of lynching and racial slurs, along with alarming visits by strangers to the homes of Freeman and her mother. The intimidation began last December, a month after the 2020 election, when the Trump campaign released surveillance video they falsely claimed showed the two women, who are Black, opening “suitcases” full of phony ballots to rig the vote count in predominantly Black Fulton County, which includes part of Atlanta.

With no one arrested for threatening them, and no police security detail, the women said their lives were thrown into chaos. Freeman told Reuters she moved from house to house out of fear for her safety. Moss, 37, avoided leaving her home except for work and said she remains wracked with anxiety and depression. Moss’s teenage son - also targeted by threats and racist messages - started failing in school.

Their alarm peaked in January, Freeman said, when a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent told her a suspected Jan. 6 Capitol rioter had been arrested and found in possession of a list of names of people to be executed. Freeman and her daughter were on it, she said. The FBI declined to comment on the incident.

 

[LittleDixie]

Remember Jussie Smollett.

 

[phrodeau]

Remember Jussie Smollett.

Huh. Stupid post. Are you stoned again?

 

[pecksniff]

Remember Jussie Smollett.

There is no reason to suspect these women are making anything up.

 

[KeithD]

I guess LittleCrumleyDixie has avoided seeing the video going around today.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

There is no reason to suspect these women are making anything up.

That response to your post is so obnoxiously stupid that it deserves no response.

 

[Lazaran]

Huh. Stupid post. Are you stoned again?

The better question would be: is LittleDicksee ever NOT stoned???

Judging by his endless stream of nonsense posts, I would conclude the answer is no.

*nods*

 

[HisArpy]

Remember Jussie Smollett.

NASCAR nooses.
SF nooses in the park.

The list of political/hate crimes being attributed to others without proof is long and growing.

 

[BidudeinWi]

There is no reason to suspect these women are making anything up.

They’re criminals and put themselves in that position. Conservatives get death threats constantly. Face it, there are dipshits who do this type of thing on both sides of the isle.

 

[GeorgeSoros]

Huh. Stupid post. Are you stoned again?

It’s the meth.

 

[Rightguide]

Remember Jussie Smollett.

The "noose" apparently placed under his collar, like a neck tie.

 

[pecksniff]

What matters here is that this kind of thing is going to make it that much harder for elections offices to find honest and competent people. And that matters a lot.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Little Dixie has a point. We should assume that anybody claiming harassment of any sort should be summarily ignored. No woman has ever had a man grope her, no man has ever been pressured into breaking a law or two. No cop has ever beaten or shot an innocent person. Lets just accept that reality is like a Disney Movie. The good guys win and the bad guys lose and its really as simple as that.

 

[YDB95]

They’re criminals and put themselves in that position. Conservatives get death threats constantly. Face it, there are dipshits who do this type of thing on both sides of the isle.

While I don't know for a fact that you're wrong about that, I do not believe for one second that you know of any legitimate cases of conservatives receiving death threats. (Mind you, I said "legitimate". I'm not talking about the poorly-sourced bullshit you undoubtedly read every day in your favorite RW sites.)

 

[BidudeinWi]

While I don't know for a fact that you're wrong about that, I do not believe for one second that you know of any legitimate cases of conservatives receiving death threats. (Mind you, I said "legitimate". I'm not talking about the poorly-sourced bullshit you undoubtedly read every day in your favorite RW sites.)

Matt Gaetz? Steve Scalise wasn’t threatened the guy was SHOT by a deranged Bernie Bro! I could go on for hours. If ANYONE is truly THAT ignorant, and yet spewing comments like that, I’m seriously shocked until think about where LibTards get their news!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-arrested-threatening-kill-matt-gaetz-family/

 

[YDB95]

Matt Gaetz?

Okay, that's one; and the guy has been arrested as well he should have been. But still. ONE.

Steve Scalise wasn’t threatened

You said it, I didn't.

 

[pecksniff]

What matters here is that this kind of thing is going to make it that much harder for elections offices to find honest and competent people. And that matters a lot.

And this is still what matters.