Both known and anonymous social media posters continue to take aim at College Park Mayor Bianca Motley Broom. The mayor says she is exploring legal options against those responsible for what she describes as false and defamatory attacks.
The latest controversy centers on photographs published over Labor Day weekend on the Everything College Park Facebook page. The images appear to show Motley Broom, who is married, kissing a man at a bar during a January city council retreat at Chateau Elan.
Motley Broom and others who were there say the photographs were altered using AI and do not accurately depict what happened. The positioning and body language of Motley Broom and the man change from image to image, but much of the surrounding scene remains virtually identical. Other details also appear inconsistent between the images.
“This is reprehensible, and it has no basis in fact, and it is far, far below what the residents of College Park deserve,” Motley Broom said of the photos.
The photographs were published by an account using the fictitious name “Webster Wallace.” Everything College Park administrator Demetris Taylor has said that more than one person contributes under the Webster Wallace name.
The account frequently criticizes Motley Broom, at times using aggressive and derogatory language. Taylor himself has published two videos regarding the photographs in which he used sexually demeaning language about the mayor and suggested that she used sexual relationships to advance her career.
“It is beyond ridiculous that in 2026 women in leadership are subject to these types of baseless and sexist attacks,” Motley Broom said. “For my family, for my city and for women in leadership, I think it is critically important that I use my voice in this moment.”
A College Park resident who was at the bar disputes what the images show.
James Walker said he was sitting beside Motley Broom at the bar when the man approached her.
Walker said the man hugged the mayor and may have given her a brief kiss on the cheek as part of a cordial greeting. He said the encounter portrayed in the images circulating on social media did not occur.
“I remember it vividly,” Walker said.
Walker also said McKenzie was in the bar at the time.
He recalled McKenzie standing off to the side near a pool table and taking photographs of Motley Broom and Walker as they sat at the bar.
During Tuesday’s city council meeting, McKenzie said she had nothing to do with the photographs.
“And no, I did not take a picture of the mayor,” McKenzie said. “I had nothing to do with any of it.”
McKenzie also denied being associated with the Webster Wallace account. But other information raises questions about her connection to it.
College Park resident Allyson Blue, who was previously friendly with McKenzie and says she helped on her election campaign, has published screenshots on social media of a January text exchange with McKenzie. In the exchange, McKenzie appears to indicate that she had sent material to Webster Wallace.
“I sent it to Webster Wallace as well,” McKenzie wrote in one of the messages.
Blue told SaportaReport that the text exchange concerned a real estate matter.
McKenzie described Webster Wallace during Tuesday’s meeting as a “fake bot” and characterized Everything College Park as a “neutral environment.”
She also furthered the narrative surrounding the Chateau Elan photographs, saying she witnessed behavior by the mayor that she considered inappropriate for a married woman.
“I was appalled as a married woman, to see another married woman,” McKenzie said, adding mockingly. “You can’t sit with the married women. Let me walk that back. You can’t sit with the council members…”
In a statement to SaportaReport on Wednesday, McKenzie said again that she had no involvement in any “altered or AI-generated image” of the mayor.
“The use of AI-generated images, fabricated content, or misinformation involving any elected official is a serious matter.” The statement reads. “Regardless of political differences, there should be no tolerance for personal attacks or the use of false or manipulated information to politically influence, manipulate or mislead the public.”
