- A family is suing a grocery store clerk after she posted allegations about her roles in the Capitol riots.
- Katheryn and Thelma Cagle helped organize buses from Georgia to DC, according to the Washington Post.
- Grocery store clerk Rayven Goolsby confronted them on Facebook after watching videos of them at the rally.
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A prominent family in Georgia sued their local clerk for defamation after she made allegations on social media about their involvement in the Capitol insurrection, according to the Washington Post.
Katheryn Cagle and her mother Thelma Cagle were part of the “core team” that organized buses crowded with participants going from Georgia to DC for the “March to Save America” protest on January 6, which resulted in a violation of the building of the Capitol and five people deaths.
The Cagles are public figures in their local community. Katheryn was the former president of the Pickens County Republican Party in Georgia and her father, William Cagle, served on the Pickens County Planning Commission that ended in December.
That’s how Rayven Goolsby, who works at a local grocery store, recognized Katheryn and Thelma when they posted their DC rally videos on Facebook.
“I thought Kate Cagle [was] on the planning committee, I hope she doesn’t plan to make a career out of planning riots, “Goolsby reportedly wrote on Facebook, the Post reported. In a separate post, she addressed directly to Thelma, writing,” Didn’t you attend the uprising? I’m sure yes. “
In another post, Goolsby also allegedly called William a homophobic “loser”, in reference to previous comments he made on his Facebook account, where he called transgenders “FREAKS” and accused them of being able to “decide where to take a leak. “reported the Post.
The Cagles are now suing Goolsby for defamation and slander in the upper court in Pickens County, Georgia. The lawsuit claims that online posting damages its reputation and unjustly links it to “overtly criminal conduct”.
“Our customers are offended and that is the reason for the process. It is our wish and Cagle’s wish that we can resolve this in a mutually beneficial and friendly way,” David McDonald told The Post.
Goolsby’s lawyer, Andrew Fleischman, argued that the family was trying to use the process as a way to intimidate. He added that Goolsby has a public interest on her side.
“We should not fear that criticizing an important person in our community could cost us thousands of dollars,” said Fleischman.