A Newnan man has been charged after police said he posted a threat on social media against Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney John Herbert Cranford Jr. Tamarcus Jaquan Potts, 29, was paroled in April after serving time for felony convictions in three Coweta County cases, according to state records. Newnan Police Department detectives identified Potts as the person who made the threat, police spokesperson Lt. Josh Jordan said. Potts was charged with terroristic threats and intimidating a judicial officer, Jordan said. A Facebook screenshot provided to The Newnan Times-Herald shows a post from an account under the name Tamarcus Strozier, an alias Potts has used in court records. The post, which includes profanity and a racial slur, says in part, “somebody unalive this [expletive],” an apparent call for someone to kill Cranford. The post shares an image criticizing Cranford’s public comments about the fatal police shooting of Zadarious Dorsey. The graphic questions Cranford’s statements about Dorsey’s criminal history and whether that history was relevant to the shooting. After learning of the post, Cranford recused his entire office from the case because he was the alleged target of the threat. Cranford referred the matter to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, which is assisting with the investigation and will make all prosecutorial decisions in the case. “Newnan Police Department recognizes the First Amendment right to free speech of all citizens,” Jordan…
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