Georgia Republican congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene posted an image on social media of herself posing with a gun alongside images of progressive House members, with the photo stirring backlash online.
The edited image posted to Facebook showed Greene holding a rifle next to Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaid (Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.), who are members of the group of freshmen House lawmakers known as “the Squad.”
Democrats condemned the photo after it was posted this week, calling for Facebook to remove it.
“Posting a photo with an assault rifle next to the faces of three women of color is not advertising. It’s incitement,” Omar tweeted. “There are already death threats in response to this post.”
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Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone responded to Omar’s tweet on Thursday, saying the post had been taken down because it violated community guidelines.
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In the Facebook post, Greene said she was “tired of seeing weak, Establishment Republicans play defense.”
“We need strong conservative Christians to go on offense against these socialists who want to rip our country apart,” Green wrote in the caption of the photo, which included two Muslim lawmakers.
This post on Facebook by Marjorie Taylor Greene, QAnon adherent & likely winner of House seat in Congress, shows her holding a rifle gun & seemingly threatening @AOC @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN. It has 4.6k likes and comments, and nearly 1,500 shares on Facebook, per CrowdTangle. pic.twitter.com/Lk2c5kK8vb
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) September 4, 2020
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GOP candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene posts image of herself with gun next to members of "Squad" https://t.co/Er0aLPh4Gj pic.twitter.com/KGLCA4lf8S
— The Hill (@thehill) September 4, 2020
The GOP, 2020.
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