Ohio's Democrats in Congress demand answers after last week's raid of voting group
CLEVELAND — Representative Shontel Brown and the other four Democratic members of Ohio's congressional delegation penned a letter Wednesday to the FBI demanding answers regarding the bureau’s raid targeting the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, an organization supporting voting rights and voter registration efforts in Ohio.
"The question is what happened, how did we get here?" asked Brown at a news conference with community and faith leaders at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
Brown has strongly criticized the FBI raids as an effort to deny and suppress the vote in Northeast Ohio. She said the raid involved hundreds of agents and didn't stop at the Ohio Organizing Collaborative's Cleveland offices.
"They went to homes, they followed people in their cars, they knocked on doors, they tried to enter homes, and five days later, there is still so much we don't know, including how much of this was covered by a warrant," she said.
The FBI and Department of Justice have not commented on th…