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Wife of GOP Sen. Hawley files criminal complaint over protest at their home

The wife of Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has filed a criminal complaint against one of the organizers of a protest last month outside their Virginia home.

The individual has been charged with a misdemeanor count of illegally demonstrating, but not charged with making threats or vandalism, as the Missouri senator initially alleged. A local magistrate found enough “probable cause” to issue a summons in the case, according to a police spokesman.

Hawley’s office said the complaint was filed in a court in Fairfax County, Virginia, with the defendant identified as activist Patrick Young of Washington, D.C. But as of Friday morning, Young told ABC News he had heard nothing about a criminal complaint, which wouldn’t become public until he receives it.

“If a summons has been issued, it is outrageous that a rich and powerful person — a United States senator — can go to their magistrate to get a summons to harass a normal person,” Young said in a statement, acknowledging that he helped organize last month’s protest.

Even rich and powerful people are entitled to not be the targets of violent harassment.

Video posted online of the Jan. 4 incident showed protesters loudly demonstrating in front of the Hawley home for nearly 30 minutes, objecting to his claims that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate and that Joe Biden shouldn’t be certified two days later as the next U.S. president.

At the time, Hawley and the couple’s two sons were in Missouri, while his wife, Erin, and their newborn daughter, were at the Vienna, Virginia, residence.

Within hours of the protest, Hawley posted on Twitter that “Antifa scumbags” had “screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door,” condemning it all as “leftwing violence.” But protesters and others disputed his claims, with police saying they had not found evidence of violence at the protest.

In a statement supporting her complaint, Erin Hawley largely recounted what can be seen in the 50-minute video posted online, following the group of protesters as they gathered at a nearby shopping center and then walked to her family’s neighborhood, where they “shout threateningly,” she said. (snip)

In the statement supporting her complaint, Hawley’s wife said, “I was fearful and closed and locked the door.”

Under the AOC Rule, Hawley’s complaint should be 100% be taken seriously. Especially since she was actually present, unlike AOC who wasn’t anywhere near the mostly peaceful Capital protest.

After about 12 minutes, an officer from the Vienna Police Department arrived on the scene and told the group that, under state law, it was “actually illegal” to picket in front of a home, according to the video. City ordinances also prohibit such use of bullhorns, a spokesman for the police department told ABC News.

The continued protesting for another 10 minutes, after they said a prayer and more officers arrived.

So, it was an illegal protest, they were terrorizing a woman (remember how Dems used to say that all women should be believed?), and you can bet Erin Hawley has some evidence. These Antifa scum need to be held responsible.