💭 British journalist told to ‘go back to your country’ by Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene in clash about American gun laws is a Washington correspondent for a major UK network who has won awards for her 9/11 coverage.
☆ Marjorie Taylor Green, 48, told a British journalist to ‘go back to your country’ in a heated debate over tighter gun laws
☆ The journalist questioned that schoolchildren are afraid of going to class and that mass shootings don’t happen in the UK when Greene snapped at her
☆ ‘You have mass stabbings, lady. You have all kinds of murder and you’ve got laws against that,’ Greene snapped at her before telling her to go back the UK
☆ She also claimed ‘We like our [guns] here,’ despite a recent poll suggesting the majority of voters actually support tighter gun laws
☆ According to a Morning Consult/Politico poll, 65 percent of voters support gun reform after the Uvalde, Texas, massacre
☆ The journalist has since been identified as Siobhan Kennedy, who works as a Washington correspondent for Channel 4 – one of the UK’s most prominent news stations.
☆ Greene, a leading figure in the GOP, was one of several to speak at the assembly – which was held a day after the US Senate took steps to pass a federal gun safety law following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Texas, last month.
💭 Ethiopian journalist Solan Kolli on Tuesday won the Rory Peck prize for his coverage of the devastating conflict in the Tigray region of his home country.
💭The Rory Peck Award is an award given to freelance camera operators who have risked their lives to report on newsworthy events.