re: DA Will Not Arrest & Prosecute Grocery Shopper For Speaking Rudely To GA Lawmaker Thomas

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Anyway, onto demands for fed hate crime prosecution and suing the grocery store! Erica Thomas says the store was slow to react, putting her in unreasonable danger.

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Is she really demanding federal hate crime charges?

Wait till her husband gets back from duty... He can handle it

From the AJC:

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State Rep. Erica Thomas and her lawyer held a press conference Monday where she maintained that the white man, Eric Sparkes, used hateful language that echoed President Donald Trump’s recent tweets — despite a TV interview where she appeared to backtrack. She also said she had the witnesses to prove it, though one who spoke to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said he didn’t hear Sparkes use that phrase.

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Meanwhile, Sparkes accused her Monday of trying to turn his crude remarks — he admitted to calling her an expletive for having too many items in a Publix express lane — into a “national case about race overnight.” He added that he’s exploring a defamation lawsuit against her.

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The Georgia GOP mocked Thomas for trying to raise campaign cash off the incident, and the Cobb GOP called for the second-term lawmaker to step down. The Democratic Party of Georgia responded with a “#WeStandWithErica” tweet.

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It started Friday evening when Thomas, a vice chairwoman of the House Democratic caucus, posted a Facebook video

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THIS IS THE NICK SANDMAN EVENT ALL OVER AGAIN:

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The video soon caught the attention of liberal activists who amplified her message that “racism and hate is getting out of control.” Soon, it had tallied millions of views and sparked a media frenzy of competing headlines and hashtags.

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SHE HAD HER STAGED MEDIA NARRATIVE READY TO GO:

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A day later, Thomas’ story came under scrutiny when she arrived at the Publix to speak with television reporters.

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BUT SHE DIDN’T COUNT ON THIS:

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Sparkes arrived, too, eager to respond.

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With the TV cameras rolling, Thomas repeatedly accused Sparkes of telling her to “go back” — and he denied using that language and said he was a Latino Democrat. Thomas seemed to hedge her remarks. “I don’t want to say he said, ‘Go back to your country,’ or ‘Go back to where you came from.’ But he was making those types of references is what I remember,” she told the station.

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AND NOW DAMAGE CONTROL IN A CONTROLLED MEDIA ENVIRONMENT:

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“I want to make sure everyone knows I’m not backtracking on my statement or retracting anything I said,” said Thomas, who added that she was still distraught and embarrassed by the confrontation when she spoke to reporters over the weekend.

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Is she really demanding federal hate crime charges?

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Not yet that I can see but I expect those calls and demands to come at any time now. She has in fact hinted at suing Publix because she did state that they were slow to respond and subjected her to verbal assault. That’s easy money for her. They will probably just give her $100K to go away.

No Justice! No Peace! Justice for Erica! Justice for Erica!

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Not yet that I can see but I expect those calls and demands to come at any time now. She has in fact hinted at suing Publix because she did state that they were slow to respond and subjected her to verbal assault. That’s easy money for her. They will probably just give her $100K to go away.

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How great would it be if Publix stated publicly that because of her actions she is banned for life from their stores?

Would be awesome but they would never have the balls to stand up to the heat and hate they would receive.

They’d have a bigger target than chick fil a put on them by the democrats and media.

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who added that she was still distraught and embarrassed by the confrontation 

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She should be embarrassed, acting like this because she got caught being rude.

Come on now, she we as pregnant woman of color. She can't be expected to stand in a regular line.


She can, however, spend the day standing in the sun talking to the media.