Felicia Franklin, Vice Chair of the Clayton County Board of Commissioners, was found outdoors a sports activities bar in lately launched physique cam footage.
In line with the DailyMail, the police found Franklin unconscious outdoors the 404 Sports activities Bar and Grill in Morrow, Georgia, on September 29, the night after she had attended an occasion.
Police bodycam footage reveals her screaming and crying and, at one level, shouting, “I don’t know what they gave me,” earlier than hurling abuse at emergency personnel.
She grew to become extra aggressive, and employees needed to restrain her palms and strap her to an ambulance mattress. She additionally requested them to get her mom, yelling at them to “get the f*** out of my face.”
When an officer advised her, “Ma’am, you’re about to go to jail,” she replied, “I don’t give a f***; get him out of my face.”
Ambulance employees finally handle to get her to the hospital, the place she is transferred to a mattress and turns into much more upset, calling out for her mom. Her good friend was heard on digicam reporting that she was taking treatment for a sinus an infection and that she had been sick lately.
Following the incident’s public launch, Franklin was voted out of her vice chair place, however she continues to be a county official. Relating to her disposal, Jeff Turner, the chairman of the Clayton County Board of Commissioners, said, “The video spoke for itself. What extra can we are saying? We characterize the residents of Clayton County, and now we have to ensure we current ourselves in a means that our residents are going to be happy with us.”
Nevertheless, in the course of the assembly, the ex-vice chair allegedly known as the choice to vote her out unlawful and introduced her intention to run for the place of board chairwoman.
She posted on Fb: “As we speak two of my political opponents are holding a particular known as assembly to exchange me as Vice Chair of the board with one other commissioner.”
“This transfer by them, will unencumber extra of my time a month early in order that I can absolutely decide to turning into elected to the Chairman’s seat in order that we will lastly transfer our county ahead.”
Regardless of her preliminary claims that she was drugged with a date rape drug, police have refuted her story, stating that she examined optimistic for alcohol and hashish however not for the drug.
Sgt. Scott Stewart from Morrow police advised Fox5, “We’ve discovered no proof to assist that she was the truth is drugged with GHB.”
In line with the police, they noticed footage of Franklin getting into the 404 Sports activities Bar & Grill by herself and inserting a number of drink orders. In line with the police, Franklin had three ‘That’s a house run’ drinks, which contained 40-proof Hennessy and Grand Marnier, a glass of wine, and a swig of another person’s beer, in keeping with the CCTV.
Cops confronted her with receipts and advised her she had greater than the 2 drinks she claimed in video interviews. She replied, “I didn’t have 5 drinks… I had 5 drinks? I don’t keep in mind having 5 drinks.” And when the police confirmed her her receipt from the bar, she mentioned: “I didn’t even order meals, different individuals had this, I didn’t drink that.”
Investigators claimed there was no proof of tampering together with her drinks and {that a} toxicology report revealed hashish in her system.
Stewart mentioned: “She refused a blood take a look at, however she did have a urinalysis, and it confirmed optimistic for cannabinoids, often known as hashish.”
Stewart advised the DailyMail that the case had been “closed” and the EMTs had determined to not press fees.
Franklin is now planning to sue Clayton County for eradicating her from her vice chair place.
