Erin Hawley, wife of U.S. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, has filed a criminal complaint against the organizer of a protest that took place outside the couple’s home in Virginia last month.
News organizer ABC News has accused the organizer of illegal protests.
The Republican senator – who was not in the house when the protest took place – accused the protesters, organized by a group called ShutdownDC, of vandalizing his home and threatening his family in the January 4 protest. about his plans to challenge. the election college results.
Erin Hawley and the baby’s baby daughter Abigail were at home during the protest, while the senator and the couple’s two sons were back in Missouri, the Kansas City (Mo.) Star reported.
On the video of the protest posted online, the crowd shouted ‘Shame on you!’ and “Get up, fight back!” according to ABC, outside the senator’s home.
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At one point, Erin Hawley opens the front door and asks the protesters to leave.
“We have neighbors and a baby, thank you,” she says.
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Will be seen on October 13, 2020 in Washington on Capitol Hill. (Getty Images)
“I was scared and locked the door,” she later wrote in a statement supporting her complaint.
At another time during the protest, three people walk to the door and say they intend to leave a copy of the Constitution or some signs there.
“I was scared and locked the door.”
Erin Hawley said in the statement that they shouted, “Come out, come out!”
“I was scared,” she said.
In a Twitter message on January 5, Sen Hawley claims that his wife and baby are threatened.
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“Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa villains came to us in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who could not travel,” Hawley tweeted the night of the protest. “They shouted threats, vandalized and tried to open our door. Let me be clear: me and my family will not be intimidated by left-wing violence.”
A local magistrate has found a possible cause to charge the organizer of the protest, identified as Patrick Young.
But ShutdownDC officials downplayed reports of Erin Hawley’s complaint.
“We are not aware of any subpoena related to our candlelight vigil at Senator Hawley’s home,” ShutdownDC was quoted as saying by the Star in a statement regarding the subpoena for Young. “The police at the scene did not believe that a crime had been committed. This was confirmed by media reports to the Vienna police department days later. If a summons was issued, it is outrageous that a rich and powerful person – a U.S. Senator – it can do go to their magistrate to get a summons to harass a normal person. ‘
Anyone may file a criminal complaint in Virginia.
The group posted Twitter messages Friday night, accusing Sen Hawley of “trying to put people in jail.”
Sen. Hawley’s office told ABC that in the past few weeks his family had “received numerous threats over their lives being monitored by authorities”.
But Officer Juan Vazquez, a spokesman for the Vienna (Va.) Police Department, told the Star that the protesters remained peaceful on January 4 and that there was no evidence of damage to property.
“It was a small event,” Vazquez was quoted as saying by the newspaper. ‘Actually, we called and said there was a kind of protest in front of a house in our city. … The group was maybe 15 to 20 people. ‘
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The officer said the protesters left without any incidents or arrests after officers warned them of violating ordinances against protesting in front of private homes, excessive noise and writing on the sidewalk in the chalk.
The protesters used a bullhorn during the rally and wrote messages such as ‘Trump lost’ in chalk.
The protest took place days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, and then Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Was vandalized and two days before the deadly riot in the U.S. Capitol.