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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The snowflakes explode in showers of quivering tears.
But all of them A-holes in the Congress and Senate ought to be investigated..every damn year.
Erica Thomas and Jussie Smollett: Twins from different mothers.
In the televised confrontation, this lying piece of cr@p shouted and screamed in this guy’s face, while he was beside himself trying to keep his cool. While she is acting like a complete lunatic, had he raised his voice, or taken a step toward her, he would have been characterized as threatening and aggressive.
I saw that confrontation and couldn’t figure out who was the bigger idiot. I do believe the man was telling the truth, and the woman was not. I hope she never makes it to the US Congress a la Cynthia McKinney and Maxine Waters. All corrupt, lying and stupid to the core, elected by their brain dead constituents, one of whom is Mr. Eric Sparkes himself by his own admission.
Lice cut hair is a profile indicator of a radical black antiAmerican
So, the bit_h had to many groceries for the express line, but she wanted to use it. I guess she thought she could because: A)She’s a black, B) A Dem, C)Someone ‘important’ or D) All of the above.
I'm thinking it was the potato chip aisle....
Didn't the article say that she was the one that told the male customer (Sparks) to "go back where you came from"?
Per the article: 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.
Your scenario doesn't work because she just took her own words and attributed them to Sparkes for publicity. He should sue the pants off her!
heard Thomas “continuously tell Eric Sparkes to ‘Go back where you came from!’” but did not hear Sparkes utter those words to Thomas.
because the fake news won’t
I was in an Express line once and this lady behind me kept whispering in my ear “you’re only supposed to have 18 items,” few seconds with pass “you’re only supposed to have 18 items,” a few seconds pass “you’re only supposed to have 18 items.” So I get to the cash register and check out and having my receipt in hand I shoved the receipt in the whispering ladies face and said “count ‘em, 17”... she was speachless.
It must have PMO because I still remember that bitch.
BTW... whatever I use the express lane and it’s questionable, I do in fact count my items.
Liberals suffer from acute liarrhea.
No sir. She alleged that the little Cuban guy said, Go back to where you came from. And that’s how she was able to try and link that to the President’s statement about the Squad going back to where they came from and inciting violence and all that crap.
If you watch the video of the two of them, outside the Publix, he admits to saying stuff to her. She has since started to walk back the “go back....” statement.
https://forums.carm.org/vb5/forum/secular/general-secular-and-apologetic-topics/society-ethics-politics/6030817-ga-state-rep-walks-back-claim-man-said-to-%C2%93go-back-where-you-came-from%C2%94 ..... So, over the last day or so, twitter (and liberal media) has been exploding over a claim by a black Georgia State Rep., Erica Thomas, who said she was confronted by a white man in line at the grocery store, and that he called her a lazy SOB and told her to go back to where she came from.
https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2019/07/22/georgia-democrat-erica-thomas-walked-back-key-part-racism-claim-big-jussie-smollett-fan/ ..... As Red State‘s Elizabeth Vaughn wrote Sunday, Georgia State Rep. Erica Thomas (D) tweeted Friday that she was “verbally assaulted” in a Publix grocery store by a white man who told her to “go back to where she came from”:
I’m thinking my scenario does work. Either way, all BS and way too much coverage and comment for an entitled hoodrat that got elected to public office.
Definitely not the fruit and vegetable aisle. I’d like to see her pregnancy test or confirm with her Ob/Gyn. She looks fat to me, not pregnant.
Did you even read the part of the article that I quoted? It states that, in fact, SHE was the one heard uttering, "Go back where you came from" several times.
I understand that she accused him of saying it but the employees reported to the police that they heard her say it to him, not the other way around.
If you watch the video of the two of them, outside the Publix, he admits to saying stuff to her. She has since started to walk back the “go back....” statement.
Yes, he did admit to saying things to her but not "Go back where you came from". Again, employees heard her say it to him. She lied and walked back what she said the next day or so after the video aired.
Also, see post #30....
You do know, because you’re so smart, that eye-witness testimony is the most unreliable testimony in court cases, right? And this instance is no different since both the witnesses mentioned in the article state that they only witnessed part of the incident.
The Unreliability of Eyewitness Testimony. “Once an eyewitness’s memory of the crime has been altered by post-event information, it is difficult or impossible to restore the eyewitness’s original memory of the crime,”
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.”
So, that witness didn’t hear the whole interaction. Ergo, Sparkes could have said that to her and she “Thomas continuously tell Eric Sparkes to ‘Go back where you came from!’” ..... that could happen since this “eye witness” didn’t hear how the argument started or what was said initially.
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.
So, this eye witness, A PUBLIX EMPLOYEE, “witnessed” PART of the conversation, not all of it, so there’s no way of knowing what part of it the witness, witnesses without further clarification or questioning. Did they WITNESS the very beginning? Did they WITNESS the middle? Did they WITNESS when she realized that she f*cked up and instead of apologizing for being a rude fat b*tch, she raised her voice and caused a scene that could/should have been avoided, if she had only had the common courtesy to stay in the right line and not use her racial and political privilege to try and cut the line. I’d be willing to bet that the witness, witnessed the part when they both started raising their voices and Thomas started making a scene.
You do know that those employees gave those statements to the police. It’s been reported that there is store video to back them up. So not just faulty eyewitness statements.
She probably called him racist, and his immediate defense is “I’m not white, I’m a Cuban immigrant.”
I’ve taken plenty of statements from witnesses. Plenty. And unlike the fed’s, local cops aren’t going to charge anyone with “lying to law enforcement”.
THEY BOTH ADMIT, IN THEIR STATEMENTS TO POLICE, THEY DIDN’T HEAR THE WHOLE THING.
And I do not care, who said what. All I said, initially, that if there’s a chance he did say it, could he have said it in a way, where he was telling her to go back to the line she came from.
And, being the hoodrat, self important, disgusting POS that she is, not giving a sh*t about the store policy wanted to do it her way. And when called out, knew only one way to “solve” the problem. Fall back to being the lying hoodrat that she is and make a scene. I’ve seen it often while working the projects and I’ve yet to hear anyone ask anything like that.
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