The implication in the threat was that she said it in the public meeting. “If you lock the doors, I’ll come back with a gun. “
The idea that some nameless faceless entity made an accusation probably wouldn’t cause the reaction of the police. If there were numerous witnesses, it would cause the reaction. The article is written to cause a specific conclusion by the reader. And it seems to have worked.
Are you serious? The police were waiting for her when she got home from the meeting. There is no way they got to the meeting place and interviewed enough witnesses to determine if actual threats had occurred before she was arrested.
Where she lives it takes one wacka-doodle (who maybe has friends in the local PD) to make an extreme accusation (and lie his butt off) to get 5 police cars sent to her house. That’s what I think took place