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Albemarle Police investigate alleged threat against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Albemarle Police investigate alleged threat against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Greene-posted image with alleged offender Photo: Saga Communications, WINA/Marjorie Taylor Greene X


CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Albemarle Police confirm an investigation of a report of a verbal death threat made during the campaign stop by 5th District Congressional candidate John McGuire and Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at the 5th Street County Office Building Wednesday. Greene on social media claimed a person circled in a photo on a right flank a few feet behind her screamed pointed at and screamed in a staff member’s face an explicative “white supremacist… Allah Akbar… we’re going to kill you”. She posted they were filing a police report and needed help identifying the individual.

ACPD’s Logan Bogert said the individual indicated “would not provide identification and left the property without incident”. She says ACPD officers documented the incident which “at this time remains an open and active investigation”. No one was hurt.

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