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Footage has emerged of the moment a shopper approached a Georgia lawmaker during a grocery store spat in which she claimed he told her 'go back where you came from'. Police said Wednesday they would not charge Eric Sparkes over the incident after an officer's bodycam also showed a witness claiming it was in fact state Rep. Erica Thomas who made the inflammatory remarks and not him. Cobb County police released security video from inside the Publix which shows the moment the two begin to argue in front of shocked shoppers and staff. The clip has no audio but shows...

The astringently humorless "fact check" squad at Snopes.com just keeps ripping the Babylon Bee website, painting their satire as "misinformation." This time, Ellie Gardey at the Daily Caller forced Snopes to revise their "fact check" and add actual facts. The Bee was mocking Georgia state Rep. Erica Thomas for claiming a man told her to "go back" to where she came from in the Express Lane at the local Publix supermarket. They inserted the eternally gracious staff at Chick-fil-A into the scene for laughs: “Georgia Lawmaker Claims Chick-Fil-A Employee Told Her To Go Back To Her Country, Later Clarifies He...

Shortened title. Full title: BREAKING: Video Shows “Victim” of “Hate Crime” Erica Thomas Screaming and Chasing Alleged Harasser — Witness says She Was the One to Scream “Go Back to Where You Came From!” As reported on Saturday — State Rep. Erica Thomas told supporters a white man told her to “go back to where you came from.” Thomas is an African-American Democrat state lawmaker. She was at a Publix grocery store and was checking out at the express lane with too many items when the man confronted her.

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....

A black woman recently claimed she was told to go back to where she came from while leaving the grocery store. However, the man accused of doing so said it’s nothing more than a political spectacle. One America’s Alex Salvi has the story.

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) -- A Cobb County man might sue a Georgia lawmaker after she claimed he told her, “Go back to where you came from,” during a confrontation at a grocery store. In a statement Monday, Eric Sparkes told CBS46 he’s “in the process of exploring with attorneys a defamation lawsuit against her.” ... The Cobb County Republican Party also speaking out, calling on Rep. Thomas to resign if "it turns out to be true she defamed a private citizen and Democratic constituent for political purposes." ...

Black Georgia state Rep. Erica Thomas, who accused a man of racism and screaming at her to "go back to where you came from" in a heated grocery store confrontation, has doubled down on her original assertion after backtracking over the weekend. She said in a Monday morning press conference, "I'm not backtracking" on her weekend accusations. Thomas claimed on Friday in a tearful Facebook post that a man verbally accosted her at a Publix grocery store after she brought too many items to an express checkout lane. She claimed the man told her and her 9-year-old daughter to "go...

A Georgia state lawmaker has walked back a significant part of her viral claim that a white man told her to "go back where you came from" during a testy argument in a supermarket checkout lane, after the man denied the encounter unfolded the way she described. The episode, hot on the heels of a national controversy over President Trump's remarks directed at four progressive Democrats, quickly made the rounds on social media. Multiple news organizations on Sunday portrayed the episode as a plausible instance of racism, though the lawmaker already had tried to clarify her accusations.

Full title: Brilliant! Mike Cernovich Destroys Rep. Erica Thomas and her Disgusting Hate Hoax — Breaks Down Ever-Changing Story of ‘Madame Smollett’ As reported on Saturday — State Rep. Erica Thomas told supporters a white man told her to “go back to where you came from.” Thomas is an African-American Democrat state lawmaker. ... She was at a Publix grocery store and was checking out at the express lane with too many items when the man confronted her. Thomas posted a tearful and heartrending video on social media following the confrontation. She said the man told her to “go back...

Erica Thomas is a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Clearly, that's not where she wants her political career to end, however. Yesterday, she suddenly claimed on Twitter that a white guy had harassed her at a grocery store, and had even told her to "go back where you came from!" Obviously, this was meant to prove that President Trump's statements about The Squad are contagious. However, the accused man didn't take this lying down. When confronted by Rep. Thomas on camera he didn't take a step back and insisted that she wasn't telling the truth about their confrontation...