ACWORTH, Ga. — Several protesters were removed from a town hall hosted by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday night.
Within moments of the Congresswoman’s town hall in Acworth beginning, a man was dragged out by at least four police officers.
Moments later, another protestor began yelling, and police eventually ended up using a Taser to stun the man before dragging him out of the Acworth Community Center.
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About half an hour later, a woman began shouting and cursing.
Greene repeatedly said “Bye” to people being escorted from the room and praised the officers’ response, saying the appropriate place for those ejected was with more than 100 protesters lining a street outside the community center.
“This is a town hall; this is not a political rally; this is not a protest,” Greene said. “Protest is outside, bye.”
Many of those who attended were Greene’s supporters. The controversial Congresswoman gave a presentation about the things she says the administration is doing to come back from the “failed policies” of the Biden administration.
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Greene argued that the “real economy” is thriving under Trump and that people shouldn’t worry about turmoil in the stock and bond markets.
“The reality is tariffs are not a massive tax on the American people,” Greene said. “The tax on the American people that you’ve been suffering with is the inflation that Biden and the Democrats put on the American people and their absolute reckless spending for the past four years.”
Greene also said she believes her supporters have the patience to wait out the negative effects of Trump’s tariff policy and moves to the saying it could take a long time to show results.
“Don’t be a ‘panican.’ That’s a new word President Trump came up with,” Greene said, using an insult he coined online. “It took us decades to get here — decades to get the $36 trillion in debt. It took decades for our factories to get shut down and our jobs sent overseas. It took decades for us to all fall into this terrible — it’s basically a grave that America has been put in and dug by our federal government.”
The second half of the town hall consisted of questions from constituents that had been submitted in advance.
As the town hall wrapped up, several more protesters shouted obscenities at Greene as they walked out of the community center.
Outside the town hall, protesters also gathered.
“It’s making sure that she knows, while she’s back there giving a speech of air, we’re going to make sure she hears our voice loud and clear because we are coming for her seat,” said Essence Johnson, the chair of the Cobb County Democratic Committee.
Some who attended the town hall said they were left unimpressed.
“I thought it was an echo chamber, just the same old repeating lines, and there was no opportunity to talk to her, and there was no reaching out across the aisle,” Howard Clarke said.
The Acworth Police Department said it arrested three people from the town hall.
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“Approximately six attendees were escorted from the premises without issue. Three individuals were arrested, two of them requiring tasers to be deployed in the process. While attempting to remove the subjects from the event, officers were threatened, physically resisted, and harmed in the process. One of those arrested provided identification that placed them outside of Congresswoman Greene’s district,” the police department said in a news release.
Acworth Police Sgt. Eric Mistretta said he believed officers responded with appropriate force to people who yelled at Greene and then resisted removal, although none approached her.
About 30 officers provided security, including Cobb County police and sheriff’s deputies, Mistretta said.
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