Black lawmaker who admonished GOP says she’s getting lynching threats

A Democratic lawmaker in Michigan said she has received death threats after admonishing her Republican colleagues at a recent hearing featuring Rudy Giuliani for “allowing people to come in here and lie.”

State Representative Cynthia Johnson, a Black woman and Democrat from Detroit, said in a Facebook post she received apparent lynching threats, posting the voicemails she said she received on her phone to a Dropbox link on her Facebook page.

A woman can be heard in the voicemail shouting at Ms Johnson for “bullying” witnesses at the hearing. The person leaving the voicemail makes several threats, saying the Democrat had been “doxxed” and her information was now exposed on the web, adding: “You’re so f***ing done, you’ll be swinging from the rope, you Democrat.”