Ontario Woman Gets Non-Stop Hate As She's Mistaken For Capitol Rioter With Same Name

She's getting overwhelmed with angry calls and social media comments.
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After being mistaken for a woman who participated in the Capitol riots, an Ontario realtor has received a slew of hateful messages.

Jenna Ryan — of Sudbury, Ontario, not Texas — is trying her best to set the record straight and convince strangers that she did not, in fact, storm the U.S. Capitol.

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From the day the Texas Jenna Ryan was identified [...], I've been receiving numerous comments across my social media platforms, along with negative Google reviews, and angry voicemails and texts. Jenna Ryan

"My team and I have been doing the best we can to respond and address everyone, letting them know they have the wrong Jenna Ryan, but some still choose to argue it," Ryan told Narcity in a statement over Facebook messenger. 

"Some argue that I am lying, that I am the one that stormed the Capitol," Ryan continued. 

"Mostly," Ryan explained, "People [have been] telling me to enjoy prison."

Things seemed to have quieted down last week for Ryan. That is until "Texas Jenna Ryan was arrested," she says.

"[Now,] We are back to non-stop harsh comments and phone calls."

The other Jenna Ryan is also a real estate agent in North Texas, according to Newsweek. She is reportedly asking Trump for a presidential pardon from a prison sentence she says she does not deserve. 

  • Abby Neufeld was a writer at Narcity Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Professional Communications at the University of Victoria. Her past work has been published in The Toronto Star, Bitch Media, Canadian Dimension, This Magazine, and more. In 2019, Abby co-founded The New Twenties, an environmentally-focused literary and arts magazine.

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