Posted on 07/23/2019 10:11:11 PM PDT by TigerClaws
A witness to a heated grocery store encounter between state Rep. Erica Thomas and a man she accused of uttering racist comments told authorities she didn’t hear him make those remarks, according to a Cobb County police report.
A Publix employee told a Cobb County officer that she witnessed part of the conversation and heard Thomas “continuously tell Eric Sparkes to ‘Go back where you came from!’” but did not hear Sparkes utter those words to Thomas.In a tearful video, Thomas accused Sparkes of using that phrase, which echoes a tweet by President Donald Trump that sparked a national uproar. Her account quickly went viral and triggered a wave of support and backlash.Sparkes admitted to calling the Democrat an expletive during the run-in, saying he was upset she was at an express aisle in the grocery store with too many items, but he said he didn’t tell her to “go back” to where she came from.Thomas’ attorney, Gerald Griggs, said the officer’s report shows the case needs additional investigation because the employee, and another witness who also said he didn’t hear Sparkes use the phrase, “didn’t hear the initial argument.”Cobb authorities, meanwhile, said Tuesday they don’t intend to file criminal charges in the case after what the police department said was a “thorough” investigation into the confrontation.Meanwhile, the debate over Thomas’ account has echoed the political divide. Some liberals declared the run-in a heartbreaking side effect of Trump’s rhetoric. And some conservatives cast her as a version of Jussie Smollett, the Chicago actor accused of concocting a racist attack to advance his career.‘Ignorant’
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There's also a story out today that $13,000 was spent or is missing from the lawmaker lady's campaign account. 4channers were tracking that angle.
Question: What is the Left going to do when a real act of racism occurs?
Left celebrates when some real act of racism occurs because that’s all they have in their playbook at this point: divide and conquer.
They have terrible ideas and have groups that actually hate each other all voting Democrats (Muslims and Jews; blacks and Hispanics) but win over voters by dividing and conquering.
“White people hate you. Vote for us. Republicans hate you homosexuals vote for us. They want to put y’all back in chains. Vote for us. etc etc.”
It’s the only playbook they have.
Even if he did and call the person racial slurs, where’s the crime?
Why was there an investigation in the first place? Was there a crime of some sort alleged??
Why don’t they charge her with lying to the police since the two witnesses didn’t back up her story?
There was an investigation because a politician cracked the whip and demanded action.
SMOLLETTED!
or maybe SMOLLESTED?
MAGA COUNTRY!
Wow, I did not know that f**cking was such hard work! I must be doing it wrong.
Any reasonable person would have looked back to the person or two in line and apologized, “I’m sorry, folks. Got leg problems and knee problems because I’m 9 months pregnant. Hope it’s okay I check out a few extra items or I can leave five here.”
Everyone, “That’s fine. Good luck with the delivery.”
She doesn’t look pregnant; she just looks fat. So people didn’t know. And she likely didn’t apologize or ask for permission from anyone in line or the clerk because she’s a self-entitled b*tch with an attitude.
Lefties LIE.
Has it been asked that when he said(if he said it), “go back to where you came from”, that he meant for her to go back to the checkout lane that she walked away from? And not some fictitious place on the planet. Asking for a friend.
Idiot will go back to Africa when illegal racist Spaniards will enter her neighborhood...
After abortion for blacks, it seems like the logical next step...
It was the other way around. Gay Cuban Democrat tells Lawmaker lady to go back.
Thomas’ attorney, Gerald Griggs, said the officer’s report shows the case needs additional investigation ... what is the charge? I hope Publix has their lawyers and actuaries working hard to figure out a settlement for lawmaker lady. The suit will say that Publix failed to provide a safe grocery store environment and intervene quick enough and now lawmaker lady can’t sleep, has anxiety attacks and is afraid to walk down the vegetable aisle. Gimme $10 million.
Another thing that I haven’t seen addressed or asked is, has anyone asked her why she thought she could cut the line like that?
So now it looks like she told him "Go Back where you came from" instead of him saying it to her, as she first accused. Gonna need more popcorn for this leftie-vs-leftie grudge match!
Exactly. What is the Left going to do when they've cried wolf one too many times and the wolf actually attacks?
They litter the public discourse with their pejorative "racist", like it was a throwaway candy wrapper.
A small problem by itself, but filling the culture with "trash" in the big picture.
The latter!
Leftists lie, folks. Expect them to falsely accuse you anywhere they are including at work, at church or in the supermarket. Please fight back if they do. They want to take us out one at a time by false accusations.
JoMa
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