Pramila Jayapal of the Indian-American Congress has been receiving derogatory and hate messages over the phone. On Thursday, he posted a collection of five such audio messages. In all of these, parts of which have been edited out for obscene and derogatory content, the male caller is heard threatening her with dire consequences and in one instance asking her to return to her native country of India. Used to be.
“Usually, political figures do not show their vulnerability. I chose to do this here because we cannot accept violence as our New Testament. We also cannot accept the racism and sexism that permeates so much of this violence,” Jaipal said in a tweet.
Earlier this summer, a man with a pistol showed up outside the home of a Congresswoman in Seattle. Police later arrested the man, identified as 49-year-old Brett Forsell.
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