
With this classic response: “He keeps messing with Muslims. Muslims have not been harassing anyone.”
(Fox23 News) — There are new details now on the suspicious and bizarre package that showed up at the office of an Albany lawmaker Tuesday.
State police say the liquid that arrived with a stuffed monkey at State Sen. Greg Ball’s office appears to be perfume.
Captain John Kowalewski said that it doesn’t seem as though anything in the package was dangerous. However, state police, postal inspectors, and the FBI are investigating.
The Georgia woman who claims she sent the package told FOX23 News exclusively that she didn’t mean any harm.
A bizarre package arrived at the Albany office of State Sen. Greg Ball on Tuesday.
Staffers say they received a package containing a vial of liquid, a hate-filled letter, and a toy monkey wearing the Star of David.
“This is pretty outlandish and horrific,” Ball told FOX23 News. “The hate speech in it is serious. We’re taking it seriously but we’ve got to continue to do our work.”
Both the email and the package appear to come from a woman named Jameela Barnette in Mariette, Georgia. She lists her phone number in the email.
FOX23 News contacted Barnette by phone on Tuesday night. She says she is a grandmother who read about Ball on the Internet.
She told FOX23 News that she is a Muslim and is upset with the hearings that Ball is conducting in his role as chairman of the State Senate’s Homeland Security Committee.
FOX23 News asked her why she sent Ball the email and package and she responded “to let him know how I felt about his racist hearings.”
Barnette responds, “He’s vulnerable! He keeps messing with Muslims. Muslims have not been harassing anyone.”
