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X-Subject: Police Say They Have No Records To Support Claim That Mob Of Racist Whites Surrounded Fani Willis' Home - Fani Willis' father testified that police were called after a mob shouted the n-word and someone else painted the n-word on Willis' home. The South Fulton police say they have no record of the incidents.
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	Police Say They Have No Records To Support Claim That Mob Of Racist 
	Whites Surrounded Fani Willis' Home - Fani Willis' father testified 
	that police were called after a mob shouted the n-word and someone 
	else painted the n-word on Willis' home. The South Fulton police say 
	they have no record of the incidents.

In the court proceedings involving whether Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis 
hired her boyfriend to try the president of the United States for a crime -- 
and lied about it -- one piece of sworn testimony was particularly dramatic.

Her father, John Floyd III, testified to the court in February that his 
daughter was "forced" to move after she was first elected. "After she was 
sworn in on January 1, 2021, on or about the third of February at probably 5, 
5:30 a.m. in the morning," Floyd explained, "there were people outside her 
house cursing and yelling and calling her the b-word and n-word. It was 
bizarre. Fortunately, the neighbors called the police and disbanded the 
group."

That was his explanation for why Willis wound up living in an apartment owned 
by a friend, who testified that Willis was dating Nathan Wade before she 
hired him to lead the prosecution. Floyd remained in the house, which was 
owned by Willis, until 2022 and detailed the threats in his testimony.

"They said they were going to blow up the house, kill her, kill me, kill my 
grandchildren. I mean, on and on. I was concerned for her safety," he 
testified. "It was so crazy. We had people, we had a guy who showed up in a 
parked car for probably eight hours, and we'd call the police."

"The South Fulton police, first they put a car in front of the house that was 
there permanently, a police car. ... They brought a person with a dog once, 
sometimes twice a day to circle the house to look for bombs," he said. "Also, 
somebody sprayed, again, the b-word and n-word on the house, I don't think my 
daughter even knew that. I cleaned it off and called the police, the South 
Fulton Police. I'm sure they have the records of the things that happened."

But in response to a public records request by The Daily Wire, the City of 
South Fulton Police Department said it had no record of any of those 
incidents. In fact, the single incident report pertaining to the home was a 
report of an abandoned vehicle in July 2021; the vehicle was impounded.

South Fulton Police chief of staff Jubal Rodgers said in an interview, in 
which The Daily Wire explained that it was seeking corroboration of Floyd's 
testimony, that he had not been able to locate any records, but that "Madam 
DA Willis has her own executive protection along with sworn officers, plus 
Fulton County has officers," so it was possible that another entity handled 
the incidents.

The Fulton County Police Department, however, said that "no records exist" in 
response to a public records request for "any police report, incident report, 
or dispatch log from November 1, 2020 through June 1, 2021 pertaining to" the 
block. The request noted that "this is the home of District Attorney Fani 
Willis and her father John Clifford Floyd III (who may have a FCPD protective 
detail)."

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The Fulton County Sheriff's office told The Daily Wire that it had no record 
of any incident on the block in the first half of 2021.

A spokeswoman for the Fulton County Marshal said that office was not 
involved.

A spokesman for Willis, Jeff DiSantis, did not respond to a question about 
the lack of police records. After publication of this story, Willis' office 
responded to a outstanding public records request by saying "there are no 
records that are responsive to this open records request."

While the absence of public records does not prove definitively that the 
events did not happen, it raises questions, particularly because Floyd 
specified that a neighbor called police -- meaning it would likely not be 
internal to a special security detail. Floyd also said that Fulton County 
police responded, and that there were threats to kill him, presumably also 
not falling under the DA's security detail.

The story, contending that in Fulton County -- where 74% of residents voted 
against Donald Trump and a plurality of people are black -- a mob of early-
bird racists gathered at 5:30 a.m. to shout racial slurs at the home of an 
obscure public official who had the power to put them in jail, is in some 
ways reminiscent of actor Jussie Smollett's claim that while he was walking 
in subzero temperatures in Chicago with a Subway sandwich, white men screamed 
the n-word and f-word at him while saying Chicago was "MAGA Country." He was 
ultimately jailed for filing a false police report.

Questions of credibility were at the core of the Fulton County proceedings, 
which ended in Judge Scott McAfee ordering that either Willis or Wade be 
removed from the case against Trump. Wade resigned in March.

Willis said she began a relationship with Wade after she hired him as special 
prosecutor in November 2021, rather than improperly steering a contract to a 
paramour. An expert witness for the defense said that Willis and Wade 
exchanged 12,000 texts and calls between January and November 2021.

Wade acknowledged that he said under oath that he had not spent time with 
other women before his divorce was finalized, even though that was not true.

Wade used his work credit card to pay for extravagant trips with Willis. 
Willis contended that she reimbursed him, though there was no record of it 
because it was in cash.

Floyd sought to bolster his daughter's credibility by saying he advised her 
to keep thousands of dollars in cash on hand because "it's a black thing."

Willis began a criminal probe into Trump days after the purported mob outside 
her home, and ultimately charged Trump and 18 others with charges related to 
alleged election interference.

The case has been paused since the March ruling as the disqualification 
ruling has been before an appeals court, but is likely to return to the 
public eye soon. The appeals court has until mid-May to decide whether it 
will review McAfee's ruling -- in which the judge declined to dismiss the 
case entirely on the basis of prosecutorial misconduct, despite criticizing 
Willis for "legally improper" activity.

In October, Willis used a purported 150 threats against her as justification 
for asking the Fulton County Board of Commissioners to allow her to designate 
more staff as "personal" employees not subject to some personnel rules, 
saying she's "got to have people who are loyal to me."

An Alabama man was charged that month with leaving a threatening voicemail 
about Willis on a Fulton County customer service line.

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Let's go Brandon!