The Cobb County, Georgia Police Department announced on Tuesday that it will not be filing any charges in the alleged incident wherein a Democratic Georgia lawmaker claimed a man told her to “go back to where” she “came from.”
State Rep. Erica Thomas made the claim on Friday in a tweet and a Facebook video, both of which went viral. Thomas’ claim was heavily disputed on Saturday after the man, Eric Sparkes, confronted her about the incident during a media interview she gave at the underlying grocery store.
“This white man comes up to me and says, ‘You lazy son of b**ch. You need to go back where you came from,'” Thomas alleged. “Sir, you don’t even know me. I’m not lazy. I’m nine months pregnant.”
“I called you a lazy (expletive),” Sparkes told Thomas during the media appearance. “That’s the worst thing I said.” – READ MORE