The Atlanta Journal-Constitution informed that a police report documented witness testimonials who claimed they watched the altercation between state Rep. Erica Thomas and Eric Sparkes, Fox News informed.
Thomas went on social media to state that Sparkes condemned her for using fast lane with more than ten items. At one point in the interaction, she claimed that he told her to “go back where you came from.”
These words have been publicized in the media amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing altercation with the four progressive congresswomen. Sparkes admitted to calling her an expletive but denied Thomas’ other statements.
Gerald Griggs, Thomas’ lawyer, said for the AJC that the officer’s report does not present the whole story due to the fact that the two witnesses “didn’t hear the initial argument.”
The AJC reported that a Publix employee told a Cobb County deputy they heard Thomas “continuously tell Eric Sparkes to ‘Go back where you came from’.”
“Mr. Sparkes began to leave, but Ms. Thomas kept ‘running her mouth’ as she approached him,” the employee also told the police.
Thomas reportedly told police that Sparkes ran up to her “with clenched hands in such a manner that he made me fearful for the safety of myself and my daughter.”
However, the deputy indicated in his report that Sparkes, a Cuban Democrat, “did not appear to be irate, nor did I see him with clenched hands” in security camera footage he viewed.”
“This white man comes up to me and says, ‘You lazy son of (expletive). You need to go back where you came from’,” Thomas said.
She did appear to walk back part of her claim, telling a reporter on Saturday, “I don’t wanna 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.”
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