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Rose McGowan calls Alyssa Milano 'leader of Karens' for calling cops on squirrel hunter, slammed for being mean

Milano, who has backed defunding the police, was accused of calling the cops on a man who was shooting at squirrels with an airsoft rifle. The actress clarified later it was her neighbor who called and not her

In a presently deleted tweet, Rose McGowan branded her former 'Charmed' co-star, Alyssa Milano "the leader of Karens" after her husband called the cops on a neighbor who was hunting squirrels with an airsoft rifle.

“Who is the Leader of Karens? Alyssa Milano,” McGowan wrote in a post on Wednesday, September 23, according to Fox News, slamming Milano because the latter famously continues to advocate in favor of defunding the police, which gained momentum after the death of African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis after an officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. The tweet also had screenshots from a bunch of news outlets that reported the incident. Although McGowan deleted the tweet soon after, it did garner a number of reactions from people, some of them rebuking McGowan for choosing to attack Milano. 

"What is your beef really You've been so controversial And simply mean I thought you were better than this" one of them wrote, while another said, "Surprised that you are for using your platform to attack women…especially under this circumstance.” A third said, "I’m starting to think you have an obsession with Alyssa. You tweet about a lot that she’s doing" A fourth added, "You can want the police defunded and reordered and still need them because they’re all we currently have. I’d call the cops if someone were on my property with a gun too. And I’m ANTIFA & BLM, etc. Extremists make the rest of us seem unhinged. Don’t cut ppl down for logical fear." A fifth said, "She said defund not eradicate. Get it together rose, stop making things up again."

There were also those who sided with McGowan. "If you defund the police they’re certainly not going to have manpower to respond to little sheltered Alyssa to respond to 'gunman' call" one pointed out, while another wrote, "Alyssa Milano is horrible. She’s such. A vapid phony harpy." A third said, "Hey @rosemcgowan - does @Alyssa_Milano hypocrisy know no bounds????"

After McGowan's attack, Alyssa took to Twitter to explain what led to the situation and also accuse “right-wing media” for inflaming the situation. "Apparently, rightwing media & trolls have decided that they should target me because my neighbor called the police after seeing a person dressed in black holding a rifle behind my home where I live with my young children and husband," she wrote in multiple tweets, "There were tweets sent out literally while we were in lockdown that make me feel it was all a set up. The disinformation campaign has begun. Vote. #NationalVoterRegistrationDay"

In one of the tweets, she explained that on Sunday, September 20, her neighbor spotted a man "dressed in all black walking in the woods between our properties with a gun." The sight alarmed the neighbor and she decided to call the cops. After Milano's family was alerted that the police would be arriving shortly, her husband called 911 to check when they would be arriving and while he was on the line, the officers arrived. Milano said that the responding team was "amazing" and made them feel "secure" as they searched the woods for the gunman. The man fitting the description given by the neighbor then called the cops himself and admitted that he was out in the neighborhood hunting for squirrels and apologized for the commotion caused. 

"I would like to thank the brave men and women of the Ventura County Sheriffs as well as all the other officers who came to protect and serve our neighborhood," Milano said in the statement, adding, "These are exactly the type of situations that police officers are trained for and should be responding to, and we will always support police having the resources they need for appropriate policing actions. We’d love to see equally trained non-police professionals respond to addiction and mental health crises and non-violent events so that these brave officers can do the jobs they are so good at handling, as they demonstrated this weekend."