Boston's party-throwing mayor faced some uninvited guests on Christmas Day when police knocked on her door in response to a hoax report of a shooting.
Michelle Wu was beaten up by a malicious caller while she was at home less than two weeks after she was called the “Wu Klux Klan” for hosting a controversial “No Whites” party for “elected people of color.” sat with her family.
The caller told police he shot his wife in the $850,000 home in Tony's Rosindale neighborhood after coming home to find she had cheated on him.
Moments later, the Democratic mayor opened her door to find police officers with guns drawn and two ambulances outside.
“For better or for worse, my family is a little used to it now, and we have a good system with the department,” Wu told WBUR.
Michelle Wu, Boston's first non-white mayor, appeared unapologetic before the Voters of Colored Christmas Party at the city's Parkman House on Dec. 13
The mayor was at home at 5.30pm on Christmas Day when police and two ambulances arrived
Wu tweeted a photo of the controversial event for the city's elected officials, from which white people were intentionally excluded
“When real emergencies occur and resources are used in this way, it is concerning.”
Boston's first female mayor faced a storm of criticism over allegations that she may have violated anti-segregation laws at her Dec. 13 party for the city's elected officials at the city-owned Parkman House, from which all whites were intentionally excluded.
News of the party only came to light when a city hall employee accidentally sent out the invitation to all city councilors.
But the mayor showed no remorse, claiming: “Some of the people who are concerned may also simply not have all the information.”
“We celebrate all kinds of connections and identity and culture and heritage in the city,” she added.
“Just yesterday we held our official Hanukkah lighting at City Hall.
“We have lit trees and want to be a city where everyone’s identity is recognized and where there are spaces and communities we can support.”
Prominent Boston conservative Howie Carr accused her of “taking the party back into apartheid.”
“What if a white mayor had thrown a whites-only party in a city building after specifically excluding all non-white members of the City Council?” the veteran radio host wrote in a Boston Herald editorial.
Wu's director of city council relations, Denise DosSantos, reportedly accidentally invited the chamber to the exclusive event and apologized for any offense
“It would have been the end of the world, a national story for days if not weeks. On the night of the party there would have been riots or looting and violence.
The scammer called 911 at 5:30 p.m. Monday and said he had tied up both the woman he had just shot and the man he found her with.
Dispatchers realized the address was Wu's and checked with the security unit stationed outside, who then said he had not heard any shots fired from inside.
He then waited for reinforcements to arrive before banging on their door.
Wu said her home had been hit several times since she took office as mayor in November 2021, and police said they had no confirmation of the motive for the latest hoax.
The event was announced after Mayor Wu's City Council Relations Director Denise DosSantos (pictured) accidentally invited the entire chamber and not just “elected people of color.”
It came just hours after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was beaten “for the eighth time” in her Georgia home, and just days after she celebrated meeting notorious “Q-Anon shaman” Jacob Chansley .
“My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this,” she tweeted while enjoying Christmas Day with her family.
“I appreciate them very much and my family and I celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ in a joyful mood!”
The 49-year-old conservative was defeated twice in August alone.
On August 23, Rome police said officers “responded to a 911 call indicating that a person had been shot multiple times at an address within the city limits.”
According to the police report, the caller said a man had been shot at MTG's home and that a woman and children might still be inside.
When police officers showed up at her home, she assured them there was no problem and that the call was clearly a hitting incident.
The police report goes on to say that officers “received a second call from the suspect who used a computer-generated voice and stated he/she was upset about Ms. Greene's political stance on the rights of transgender youth.”
The next day, her home was targeted again by a prank caller who told police officers they had shot her family and threatened to kill any officers who came to the door.
Controversial Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was also struck on Christmas Day, just days after she met “Q-Anon Shaman” Jacob Chansley at a far-right conference
Wu said she had been beaten once since taking office in November 2021 and that police have not revealed a motive for the latest attack
Jewish sites in the United States reported 199 “swatting” incidents in 24 hours earlier this month, as anti-Semitic incidents have increased following the war in Gaza.
And the FBI established the nation's first command center in May 2023 to coordinate federal, state and local responses to combat swatting.
Celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Tom Cruise, Chris Brown, Miley Cyrus, Iggy Azalea, Jason Derulo, Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber and Clint Eastwood have fallen victim to this practice
And at least two victims were shot dead by police in the United States after responding to false reports.