During a hearing in the US House on Tuesday, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene falsely claimed that an activist in Georgia murdered a state police officer earlier this year, in what the Republican lawmaker framed as part of a growing trend of deadly left-wing extremism in America.
“Being a police officer is a target for antifa. They actually murdered someone there. They actually murdered a police officer. Oh, you don’t know. That’s right, because you don’t study left-wing extremism,” the Georgia Republican said during Tuesday’s hearing at the Homeland Security Committee, which was titled “‘Mostly Peaceful’: Countering Left-Wing Organized Violence."
