A woman is dead following a “tragic chain of events” that began with a bomb threat against Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene at her Rome home, police said.

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      17 hours ago

      I absolutely cannot deal with you. You’re being intentionally obtuse. They got a bomb threat. Yes, it ended up being fake. They didn’t know that at the time.

      As dystopian as American police are, they do not have full on Minority Report style precogs using magical psychic powers to discern if a bomb threat is real or not the moment it is received.

      And, again, because I feel like you’re missing my point, I’m not defending them. None of this was acceptable. I’m, literally, only saying they didn’t yet know the threat was fake. That’s it.

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        They got a bomb threat on Friday. This happened on Monday. How do you have the gall to claim anyone else of being intentionally obtuse? There was no threat.

        This supposed accident had nothing to do with the bomb threat. It’s being used to cover up the death of a woman. And yes when you keep saying they were responding to a threat you are justifying it. Because you’re implying it was reasonable, you just said so again.

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          They got a bomb threat on Friday. This happened on Monday. How do you have the gall to claim anyone else of being intentionally obtuse? There was no threat.

          Like I said, there’s a million things here to criticize.

          This supposed accident had nothing to do with the bomb threat. It’s being used to cover up the death of a woman.

          Okay, now this is an entirely different thing than the other stuff you’ve been saying. If you want to discuss that as a possibility then that’s fine.

          And yes when you keep saying they were responding to a threat you are justifying it.

          No lol. An officer responding to a threat doesn’t magically give them the right to run down bystanders.


          Upon learning of the threat, police confirmed with Greene’s staff that she was not at the residence and assigned an officer to monitor the mailbox until the Rome/Floyd County Bomb Squad arrived, police said.

          The bomb squad was notified shortly after 11 a.m. Monday and dispatched a team to respond to the bomb squad headquarters.

          On the way to the headquarters in their personal vehicle, a Rome Police sergeant and bomb squad member collided with another vehicle driven by 66-year-old Tammie Pickelsimer.