A package addressed to “Anne Thrax” raised suspicions at the Los Angeles office of Rep. Maxine Waters, causing local authorities to shut down portions while they investigated.
The incident is being more thoroughly scrutinized, though no hazardous materials were found on the package.
“There was no evidence of any dangerous substance at all,” LAPD spokesman Mike Lopez said according to the Los Angeles Times. “They’re probably going to investigate to see where this item came from.”
No injuries were reported, including one staffer who came in contact with the package.
The Los Angeles Fire Department is responding to reports of a suspicious package at the building where Rep. Maxine Waters’ district offices are located.
The package reportedly was labeled “anthrax,” according to a fire department spokeswoman. https://t.co/ue4ZiC7m0w pic.twitter.com/vyan6Oz5fQ
— CNN (@CNN) July 24, 2018
The threat comes on the heels of Waters’ incendiary rhetoric telling supporters to publicly shame and harass Republicans and conservatives.
“If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” she told her followers.
The comments have led to widespread condemnation and an effort to censure the congresswoman. (RELATED: GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis Says Maxine Waters Is Not Fit To Serve In Congress).
Waters has complained that her incitement to harass others has led to people harassing her. She had to cancel events due to what she claimed were ‘death threats’ made against her. (RELATED: Maxine Waters Cancels Events After Receiving Threats).
She also managed to incite an incident outside her office last week when she publicly issued a warning about a far-right militia group planning to protest her office. With a wink and a nod, Waters told supporters that the group was known for starting violence and that any of her adoring fans should most definitely stay away from the area.
The group never showed, but those fans dutifully arrived and accosted a vehicle, stole the American flag, burned it, chanted “black power,” and then forced a bystander back in his car for the apparent crime of wearing a Navy hat. (RELATED: Maxine Waters Supporters Surround Vehicle, Steal Flag and Set It on Fire).
Outside of @RepMaxineWaters, a group of people who had come to protest the @Oathkeepers are chanting “Fuck the government. America was never great.” pic.twitter.com/Ya3RWPjbhW
— Benjamin Oreskes🦅 (@boreskes) July 19, 2018
This guy in the navy hat showed up.He initially wouldnt tell people why he was here + people started to get physical with him. As he was being escorted to his car he told me he has a son in the armed service and was curious what this protest was all about but not an @Oathkeepers pic.twitter.com/3BFQ1p2kLO
— Benjamin Oreskes🦅 (@boreskes) July 19, 2018
Last month, President Trump warned Waters about telling others to harass his supporters, saying “Be careful what you wish for Max!”
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
It seems her detractors are simply playing by the rules she put forth, though death threats and suspicious packages are NEVER okay.
Recently, Waters claimed that her calls to impeach Trump and ‘reclaim my time’ were a divine effort.
WATCH: Rep. Maxine Waters claimed that God sent her to earth to “[reclaim] my time,” during a speech at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church. https://t.co/6Ta6BJEZ50
— NTK Network (@NTKNet) July 24, 2018
“When you see me in the Congress of the United States of America and I say ‘reclaiming my time,” Waters said. “I’m reclaiming my time because you got to know that I’m here to do work that I’ve been sent to do. And as Pastor said to me when I came here this morning, ‘when God sends you to do something you just do it.'”
God didn’t send you to divide the country and incite riots, we’re quite certain of that.
