NY rep Yvette Clarke contacts police after receiving threatening calls
Rep. Yvette Clarke called the police last night to report threatening phone calls that were being directed at her...
Rep. Yvette Clarke called the police last night to report threatening phone calls that were being directed at her. The calls started after a video of her bashing the Tea Party began to appear on numerous politically conservative websites. The Huffington Post has the latest.
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) notified the Capitol Police Thursday after receiving threatening phone calls, after a video of her appearing to criticize the Tea Party was posted on several conservative websites, according to a release from her office.
The video was first posted to Breitbart TV, created by the late conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart, and then picked up by Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze.
The video shows Clarke speaking at a candidate forum organized by Prospect Heights Democrats for Reform.
“When I say dealing with the Tea Party, they came up in the hundreds of thousands. So we couldn’t walk outside of our office without tripping over Tea Party members. And these are individuals that had no problems with racial epithets, they had no problem with cursing, spitting and everything else, they came to intimidate members out of passing the Affordable Care Act,” says Clarke in the video.
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