The Los Angeles Police Department sent police to the home of a Black Lives Matter organizer Wednesday morning due to a hoax call, though the organizer says she does not believe the LAPD story.
“I believe what they were trying to do was throw me out of my game. They were trying to intimidate me into acting,” activist Melina Abdullah said in a video posted on social media on Wednesday.
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LAPD received a call to claim that three people were held hostage by a man with a gun in a house in Los Angeles, the department said in a press release.
“After the officers were able to check the safety of the residents, the on-site investigation determined that the call was a hoax,” the LAPD said in a statement.
In this August 5, 2020, stock photo, Melina Abdullah speaks during a protest by Black Lives Matter in the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles. (AP photo / Richard Vogel, file)
LAPD asks anyone with information about the “swatting” incident, defined as “a false emergency call for service, in general of a nature that causes a major police response,” to come forward with information. The Major Crimes Department of LAPD will investigate.
“Thousands and dozens of police, LAPD and others, showed up at my house this morning, drawing guns, drawing assault rifles, really terrorizing me and my children. We are OK,” Abdullah said on Wednesday.
“I never believe the words of the police,” she continued. “You shouldn’t either.”
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Abdullah lived the incident on Instagram on Wednesday morning, CBS Los Angeles reported.
Abdullah’s Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter has appealed to County District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s oyster, saying she failed to prosecute police officers involved in fatal shootings during her tenure in office.
Los Angeles City Councilor Herb Wesson said whoever made the hoax call should be “held accountable.”
“While she’s all known to you as an activist with BLMLA, [Abdullah] is the mother of three children and putting her family through here is not acceptable, regardless of where your politics may lie, “Wesson wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
LAPD declined to comment on Wednesday’s press release.
Fox Givas of Fox News contributed to this report.
