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Missoula, Montana Representative Zooey Zephyr And Her Girlfriend Prevailed Over Attempted Swattings [1]
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Date: 2023-05-03
Someone just attempted to SWAT my girlfriend. Those who hate trans people are doing everything in their power to silence & harm us. But we will not be deterred. We will stand in defiance of their cruelty, and never stop working until trans people get to live our lives in peace.
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Someone just attempted to SWAT me as well. I am fine. An individual reported an anonymous tip targeting my home in Missoula, and the police recognized that it was likely a hoax and called me. I will say again. We will not be deterred. The fight for trans rights goes on.
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The Advocate
The Advocate confirmed the incident with a Montgomery County Police spokesperson.
“An email was sent to the Montgomery County Fifth District station. Officers responded to her residence this morning for a [welfare check]” the spokesperson said. “They spoke with Ms. Reed, and she stated that she was fine and that her ‘information got leaked.’ She stated that she provided her information to the police department because she figured something like this might happen.”
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“It is very stressful, and my partner is very much involved in doing really important work,” she says. Reed says she doesn't want to be making the news, only reporting on the legislation out there. She says that when she becomes the story, she feels "like this is yet another hateful attack on people who are just trying to get the news out there on LGBT issues and all this legislation.”
She continues, “I cover these hearings for hours every day. I write up bills and analyze them. And I feel like just because by virtue of my relationship with the representative, now they’re trying to target me, and they’re trying to get at her through me, which I think is very, it’s very hateful, and it’s very troublesome.”
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