'So the rantings of a white woman get you here and scare my children?': Video shows Biden's new black Massachusetts US Attorney threatening reporters quizzing her about 'unhinged' confrontation with shopper where she 'impersonated a cop'
Video footage has surfaced that shows new Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins angrily confront journalists in January over a road rage incident where she cut off a white motorist and appeared to impersonate a police officer in a Boston parking lot.
Rollins, 50, who was narrowly confirmed in the Senate after Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tie-breaking vote on Wednesday to push her through with a 51-50 vote, is seen in footage from Boston 25 News threatening the news crew asking about the dustup.
Rollins angrily threatens them with legal action, accuses them of endangering her children because they asked for an interview near her home. She also brings up the race of the other driver involved in the Boston parking lot dustup but doesn't acknowledge what transpired.
Boston 25 spoke with a woman, Katie Lawson, who told the outlet that Rollins confronted her when she attempted to merge ahead of the attorney's car while both were leaving the parking lot.
Lawson said she '1,000 percent thought that she [Rollins] was a police officer,' telling the outlet that Rollins threatened to write her a ticket.
When Rollins was later approached by Boston 25 for an interview, she at one point said: 'So the rantings of a white woman get you here and scare my children?'
But the attorney later tweeted and tried to misrepresent her foul-mouthed exchange with the news crew, claiming in a series of tweets that she had been accosted by a 'masked white man' who jumped out of his truck and removed something 'large & dark' from the trunk, leaving her and her children feeling 'terrified.'
Rollins has a history of making public controversial statements invoking race, railing against police brutality and expressing support for Black Lives Matter protesters.
Newly resurfaced video shows the new Massachusetts US Attorney Rachael Rollins angrily confronting reporters about an incident involving a white motorist in January 2021
The news crew was investigating allegations made by Katie Lawson (pictured) that Rollins threatened her when Lawson cut the attorney off in a mall parking lot
The video from January 2021 shows Biden appointee Rollins engaging in an angry confrontation with a news crew near her home
After the road rage incident, Rollins argued in a tweet that he thought she was being attacked by 'a masked white man' who turned out to have been a member of a news crew
President Joe Biden had tapped Rollins, then Suffolk Country District Attorney, to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts in July.
On Wednesday, she made history as the first black woman to be confirmed in the role by the Senate, when Harris broke a 50-50 tie along party lines.
Boston 25's report from this past January states that the station's news crew was investigating an incident in which Rollins had an angry confrontation with a local woman at a shopping center.
At one point she appeared to reference the woman in question's race, asking the crew: 'So the rantings of a white woman get you here and scare my children?'
'Get off our private property, and I swear to God, I'm dead serious. I will find your name.'
When the clip begins Rollins looks visibly irritated, telling the news team getting her attention, 'My kids are inside.'
Rollins demands to know how the news team found her home and they tell her it's a matter of public record.
'That's unbelievable,' the attorney answers. 'So as a Black woman, in this moment in this country, you're going to put my f**king house on screen?'
The female reporter attempts to calm Rollins, telling her they just came to ask her a few questions and they 'never even knocked on the door.'
'Get away from my family. Speak to me at my job. If I get hurt or harmed because of this, you are on the record for that, or my kids are f**king killed,' Rollins says in the video.
'Who do you think you are? This is private property. Get out of here.'
She again threatened the news crew, 'You know what I'll do? I'll call the police on you and make an allegation, and we'll see how that works for you.'
A Boston police officer seems to step in toward the end, asking the news crew to stop for the sake of Rollins' children.
The attorney is then seen returning to her vehicle when the video ends.
The damning footage was resurfaced by Fox in a Thursday afternoon report.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the White House and the United States Attorney's office in the District of Massachusetts for comment.
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