ATLANTA, Georgia — A police officer is out of a job and her friend faces felony charges after the officer let her friend borrow her badge and gun to get free snacks from QuikTrip, police said.
A Gwinnett officer spotted 33-year-old Pektra LaQuiche Edgerton using the badge to get free food at the Duluth gas station last week.
It’s common for businesses to offer discounts to law enforcement officers, but something about Edgerton’s actions made Officer J.T. Smith suspicious.
Authorities said Brandi Green, who worked for the Department of Community Supervision, gave Edgerton her badge and gun when she went into the store.
Edgerton was arrested on a felony impersonating an officer charge, Gwinnett jail records show. She also faces a moving violation for missing a brake light. She was released the day of her arrest after posting a $4,146 bond.
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11 Responses
That headline is a bit misleading. There is NOTHING in the story to indicate either of the women played the race card.
Crazy stuff out there. However not a “MUST WATCH”
Crazy. She should of at least rehearsed her phony story in advance in case she would gotten pulled over or caught in the store. I didn’t hear pull the race card as your headline suggests but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me. Her illegal activity is somehow white mans fault. She’s only feeding off of Biden/Gillibrand’s white privelage guilt speech to the entire Nation. What a typical Obama democrat voter.
@Amil, Did you watch the video. But I agree headlines here are trying to make a huge story.
Someone needs to call Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson and Rabbi Sharpton, the gedolim of the black community to come to this poor woman’s aid.
Amil Zola watch at 1minute 54 seconds into the video “ so because a black person..” that is the race card
Amil,
You are mistaken. Watch again.
Amil Zola,
If you’d watch the clip before commenting, it would help. At 1:55, race card is very clear.
AZ, what the **** are you talking about? She explicitly pulls the race card at the 2 minute mark.
> Amil Zola
The text left out the conversation. When the suspect was questioned by the police officer:
> “Are you a police officer, or are you not a police officer?”
The suspect responded:
> “So, because a black person walks into a store with a badge and a gun it’s an issue?”
An article in the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has more details. The police officer, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the car and gave the driver her badge AND GUN, was suspended as a result of this incident. Then when she was told there would be an internal investigation, she resigned.