Election Deniers Tried to Citizen’s Arrest Grandmother

• A Georgia election employee informed the January 6 committee about how her household was focused.
• Wandrea “Shaye” Moss stated she and her mom needed to go away city for 2 months on the FBI’s suggestion.
• They stated they confronted racist demise threats, and a few election deniers tried to citizen’s arrest the employee’s grandmother.

A Georgia election employee testified that her grandmother confronted a citizen’s arrest by a gaggle of election deniers who tried pushing their means into her home as a result of election lies informed by former President Donald Trump and former private lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, an election employee in Fulton County, Georgia, informed lawmakers throughout a January 6 choose committee listening to that she and her mom Ruby Freeman, who labored as a short-term election employee in 2020, have been among the many staff counting ballots at State Farm Area in Atlanta. 

When Giuliani and Trump accused these staff of orchestrating election fraud, Moss stated her household confronted demise threats and have been pushed out of city, residing in Airbnbs for 2 months round January 6 on the FBI’s suggestion.

“I felt horrible,” she  stated throughout the listening to. “I felt homeless. I am unable to imagine this individual has brought on this a lot harm to me and my household to have to go away my dwelling.”

Moss stated she endured racist harassment as properly, including {that a} group of individuals influenced by the election conspiracies confirmed as much as her grandmother’s home and tried to carry out a citizen’s arrest.

“I’ve by no means even heard her or seen her cry ever in my life and he or she referred to as me screaming on the prime of her lungs,” Moss stated. “She was simply screaming, I did not know what to do. I wasn’t there. I simply felt so helpless and so horrible.”

In December 2021, Freeman and Moss sued right-wing web site The Gateway Pundit and its founder Jim Hoft alongside his brother Joe Hoft, accusing them of defamation and intentional inflection of emotional misery.

The lawsuit claimed that the web site outed Freeman and Moss to its readers, sharing surveillance footage of them and accusing them or toying with the outcomes of the elections. 

Freeman was talked about greater than a dozen instances in Trump’s January 2 name to Georgia officers, the place he requested them to “discover” extra votes, which she stated pressured her and her daughter to enter hiding.

“I’ve misplaced my identify and I misplaced my popularity,” her mom, Ruby Freeman informed lawmakers throughout the listening to. “I’ve misplaced my sense of safety. All as a result of a gaggle of individuals beginning with quantity 45 and his allies, Rudy Giuliani, determined to scapegoat me and my daughter Shaye.”