Florida state Sen. Daphne Campbell (D) reportedly called 911 requesting police protection after she was questioned by a reporter at an event earlier this month.

The Miami Herald reported on Wednesday that the lawmaker, who lost reelection on Tuesday, called the police after one of the newspaper's reporters tried to question her following an appearance at a public candidates’ forum at a sports bar called Duffy's.

“Can you please send a police for me, please, right now,” Campbell can be heard saying in an Aug. 9 phone call with the Miami-Dade police dispatcher obtained by the publication. “My life is threatened.”

Campbell reportedly did not identify that the woman she said was threatening her was Miami Herald reporter Sarah Blaskey.

“I have a lady who threatened me a lot,” Campbell went on to say in the recording. “I’m not going to argue with no one. She threatened me right now. I need protection.”

The Herald said Blaskey was briefly questioned by a North Miami Beach police officer who arrived on the scene after the state senator’s call. She was not arrested, the paper reported.

Blaskey tweeted that "cops didn't think the complaint was credible."

Update: @daphnecampbell called the police on me for “threatening behavior” at this event. Last time I checked, asking questions at a public forum was allowed. Don’t worry guys, cops didn’t think the complaint was credible. — Sarah Blaskey (@Blaskey_S) August 9, 2018

“Sarah Blaskey was simply doing her job. Asking a question is not a threat,” Aminda Marqués Gonzalez, executive editor of Miami Herald, said of the incident.

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The Herald did not detail the type of questions Blaskey was asking Campbell.

However, The Herald noted that the state senator, who first assumed office at the state House in 2010, has been the center of multiple previous reports on alleged Medicaid fraud investigations involving her family business, in addition to allegations of unethical behavior.

The senator has also accused the publication of racism in the past and of bias in favor of Jason Pizzo, her opponent.

The local paper noted that this would not be the first time Campbell has called 911 on a journalist. The politician reportedly called the police on the publisher of a self-described millennial news site called RISE NEWS back in May, the publication reported at the time.