Video Shows Democrat Candidate Faking Own Kidnapping for ’Sympathy Votes’, Police Say

Sabrina Belcher, who is running for mayor of Sumter, South Carolina, has been arrested on charges of faking a kidnapping to win sympathy votes. She live-streamed the entire incident on Facebook. Police say the 29-year-old candidate faked a beating and kidnapping to win “publicity, sympathy, and votes in the November election.” A 34-year-old man named Christopher Eady allegedly helped her fake the video. Belcher reported to police that a man was trying to rob her, broke the windows in her car, and kidnappe