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Police officers appeared to use electric stun guns on a protester at a Georgia town hall event for Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday night as members of the crowd cheered.
Video posted by CBS News shows about a half dozen officers surrounding a protester, as one officer pushes him into a corner. Someone shouts, “Hands up!” Then a loud noise is heard, and the officer is seen holding a stun gun with the electric field pulsing toward the corner of the room. People in the crowd cheered.
“This is a peaceful town hall,” Greene is heard saying on the video.
At least two other officers pulled their yellow stun gun devices out as they stood around the protester, but the video does not show them discharging the weapons.
USA TODAY reached out to the Acworth Police Department for comment.
Greene’s congressional page shows she had a town hall scheduled for Tuesday night at an undisclosed location in Cobb County, just outside of Atlanta. CBS News reports the event was in Acworth, a community of about 20,000 located 40 minutes outside of Atlanta.
“How people should handle their business is in the voting booth,” Greene told reporters after the event. “There’s no reason for screaming, yelling, ridiculous, outrageous protesting. That disrupts the entire event for every single person that is there.”
Greene praised the police officers on X and shared a video of a protester grabbing an officer’s shirt collar while others intervened to separate the two men.
“For anyone questioning or criticizing the police at my townhall last night, the GREAT police officers conducted themselves in textbook fashion and protected every single person there by keeping the peace!!!!!” Greene wrote.
“These protestors were deranged and aggressive and lost control of themselves the second the town hall started,” she said. “And the press knows it because it happened right in front of them!!”