Fever
Dream. [Scroll down] People of good faith have reason to believe that the
country is about to be blown apart. By another odd coincidence, an outfit called the Armed
Forces Communications and Electronics Association International (AFCEA) has scheduled an "exercise
simulating a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure" for November 5 in Atlanta,
Georgia. That's election day. In a big swing state. Whose idea was that? Is
there already not enough that might go wrong that some treasonous moron had to kick the risk of
fiasco up another notch? Or might it be cover for another Three Card Monte caper with the
Georgia votes?
People
Leave In Droves Once the Free Bruce Springsteen Concert Ends and Kamala Harris Takes the
Stage. Kamala Harris held a 'rally' in Atlanta, Georgia with Barack Obama, rapper
Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen and other Communists on Thursday evening. Springsteen trashed Trump
as he took the stage at James R. Hallford Stadium near Atlanta. "He does not understand this
country, its history, or what it means to be deeply American," Springsteen told the crowd of Trump.
[...] According to Deadline, Bruce Springsteen performed "The Promised Land," "Land of Hope and
Dreams" and "Dancing in the Dark." He sounded terrible. [Tweet] People started
funneling out shortly after the free Bruce Springsteen concert ended. The best part was watching
people leave the arena in droves as Kamala Harris shouted, "It's time to turn the page!"
Exposing
the Lies About Georgia's Ballot Questions. [Scroll down] The way tax
policy in Georgia works now is that if you have any questions or issues with your taxes, you deal
directly with the Department of Revenue. I'm sure there are many wonderful people at the DoR,
but we don't elect them, despite what the Dems want you to think. They're unelected
bureaucrats whose interest is to make sure you give them money. The Tax Court would take the
issue of tax questions out of the hands of bureaucrats and place it in front of an impartial
judiciary. And taxpayers can represent themselves in front of the court.
Georgia
Election Board Subpoenas All 2020 Election Records from Fulton County. The Georgia
State Election Board it working overtime in an attempt to investigate the controversial 2020
election and to clean up the future elections in the state. However, officials in Fulton
County continue to refuse to work with State Election Board. But that may soon change.
The Georgia State Election Board voted 3-2 to subpoena ALL of the election records from Fulton
County during the 2020 election. This will not turn out well for Fulton County.
Is it looting, dumpster diving, or claiming abandoned property? Black
Beauty Supply Store Is Evicted In Georgia, All Their Merch Tossed Into Parking Lot.
In the heart of Clayton County, Georgia, an unexpected spectacle unfolded that gripped the local
community and sparked widespread debate. On August 7, a beauty supply store on Upper
Riverdale Road, known for serving the beauty needs of countless residents, found itself at the
center of a very public eviction. The event not only drew attention for its chaotic nature
but also highlighted the often-overlooked consequences of business failures and the wasteful
aftermath that can follow. The drama began when the local sheriff's department arrived at the
strip mall where the beauty supply store was located, near a Chuck E. Cheese. As law
enforcement officers moved to clear out the store, the scene quickly escalated into a frenzy.
[Video clip]
Masked
Robbers Fall Through A Ceiling During A Robbery At An Atlanta Check-Cashing Store.
Masked robbers break through the ceiling to rob an Atlanta check-cashing store. Atlanta
police say two men broke through a check-cashing business' ceiling to rob the business.
Security footage showed the moment the men fell through the ceiling and grabbed the manager working
behind the counter. [Video clip]
Attorney
Files Contempt of Court Motion Against Fulton DA Fani Willis Ahead of Hearing. Fulton
County District Attorney Fani Willis is not having the best week, with a Georgia judge denying her
request to quash a subpoena from the Georgia state senate. [Advertisement] And now, her
biggest nemesis in the Fulton County RICO case against former president Donald Trump is back on the
attack, one day ahead of an evidentiary hearing Willis is supposed to attend. Ashleigh
Merchant, a defense attorney for one of the former president's co-defendants in Georgia, has filed
a motion for contempt of court against Willis on the evening before Willis is supposed to attend a
hearing related to an open records lawsuit Merchant filed against her. [Tweet]
5
teens, including 13-year-old, caught stealing nearly $3K worth of items from Atlanta Lululemon.
Five teenagers face shoplifting charges after Atlanta police said they stole thousands of dollars
worth of items from Lululemon. On Tuesday, around 3:30 p.m. Atlanta police were
called to the Lululemon on Howell Mill Road in northwest Atlanta regarding five girls shoplifting.
While on the way to the store, officers were contacted that the suspects drove away from the store in a
black Nissan Altima. APD spotted the suspect's car less than a mile from the store and conducted
a traffic stop. [Video clip]
Fani
Willis' Daughter Arrested in Georgia For Driving with Suspended License. Fani Willis'
daughter now has her own mugshot! The daughter of embattled Fulton County District Attorney
Fani Willis was arrested in Georgia for driving with a suspended license. According to The
Daily Mail, 25-year-old Kinaya Willis was pulled over for driving while using a cell phone on
August 24 in Tyrone, Georgia when officers realized she had a suspended license. Kinaya
Willis told the police officer that she was using her cell phone "due to her mother calling her
related to her pregnancy." Fani Willis showed up to the scene as officers arrested her daughter.
Lawsuit:
Fulton County Fails To Maintain Accurate Voter Rolls, Violating State And Federal Law.
Fulton County, Georgia, is allegedly not maintaining its voter rolls, according to a recently filed
in federal court. The suit, brought by Fulton County residents Jason Frazier and Earl
Ferguson against Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger and members of the Fulton County Department
of Registrations and Elections (FCDRE), alleges that "Fulton County does not maintain, nor does it
even attempt to maintain, accurate voter rolls." The suit cites, in part, testimony from Atlanta
city attorney Patrise Perkins-Hooker who said last November that "Fulton County never does an
independent search for anybody; dead people, felons, people who live out of state."
Perkins-Hooker said the Secretary of State's office sends Fulton County a list of potentially
ineligible voters who are then notified by the county about such allegations. "We don't have
the right, to remove anybody's privilege to vote without a hearing," Perkins-Hooker said. "We
are not, on our own, initiating any investigation of our voting rolls to remove anybody."
Police
Arrest This Man In Atlanta After A Concerned Citizen Recorded Him Beating A 3-Year-Old
Child. Police arrest Atlanta man after a video showed him striking a 3-year-old
child. "Mind your [...] business, lady," the man repeatedly says, adding, "I'll raise my [...]
child the way I want to." The Gwinnett County Police arrested 44-year-old James Collins after
a video showed him striking a 3-year-old child. Investigators were alerted to the video on
August 10. Detectives obtained surveillance footage from a Kroger store that confirmed
the incident[.] [Video clip]
FEMA
program for migrants grows along with border crisis — from over $360M to
$650M. The city of Atlanta received $4.85 million in funding in 2023, the first
year of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Shelter and Services Program for migrants.
In 2024, the city will get $10.89 million in the second year with another round of funding
later in the year to be announced. FEMA's Shelter and Services Program is another indicator
of the growing impact of the arrival of millions of foreign nationals in the US since President Joe
Biden took office. The program provides grants to communities for the expenses they will
incur for handling migrants.
Metro Atlanta
judge arrested at Buckhead nightclub, faces felony charge. Douglas County Probate
Judge Christina J. Peterson was arrested at a Buckhead nightclub early Thursday and charged with
battery and felony obstruction, accused of striking an officer on the head and refusing to identify
herself, records show. Peterson, who is the subject of a yearslong judicial misconduct
investigation, was apprehended at the Red Martini Restaurant and Lounge on Peachtree Road.
Fulton County Jail records show she faces a felony charge of willful obstruction of law enforcement
officers by use of threats or violence, and a charge of simple battery against a police officer.
Swing
state election boards engaged in legal battles over election certification ahead of
November. County election boards in swing states across the country are engaged in
legal battles over election certification ahead of the November elections, while others were
threatened with legal action if they didn't certify election results. With the presidential
election less than five months away, county election board members are either initiating or find
themselves the subject of legal actions over the certification of elections. That process
occurs before the state can certify election results. The central issue is whether election
boards must certify election results or if they have discretion over certification, with Democrats
largely favoring the former option and Republicans believing the latter. Last month, Julie
Adams, a Republican member of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections (BRE), filed a
lawsuit against the county, board, and election director, in which she claimed Fulton County
Elections Director Nadine Williams prevented her from accessing information and performing her
duties. The lawsuit was filed before Adams abstained from certifying the May 21 primary
election in Fulton County on May 28.
Felon
shot by officer after opening fire at Atlanta food court, police say. Four people
were injured Tuesday afternoon, including the suspect, during a shooting in a busy downtown Atlanta
food court, police said. The incident took place inside Peachtree Center's The Hub, located
at 235 Peachtree Street, around 2:15 p.m., Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said during a news
conference near the scene. It began as a fight between two people, Dickens said, and one of
those involved is accused of pulling out a gun and shooting three other people. "A 34-year-old
suspect armed with a handgun had entered the food court, and after a brief altercation with an
individual, he shot that individual. And then that perpetrator continued on to shoot two
others that were in the food court," police Chief Darin Schierbaum said. [...] The suspect is a
felon who has served prison time for an armed robbery and has been arrested 11 times,
officials confirmed.
Atlanta
Prosecutor Is Jailed For 7 Years For Stealing 15 Million In COVID Relief
Loans. An Atlanta prosecutor who was on a podcast talking about integrity has been
jailed for 7 years for stealing $15 million in COVID-19 relief loans. Shelitha
Robertson, who said she would never degrade herself "for a dolla," used the PPP loans to buy a
Rolls Royce, a 10-carat diamond ring, and a motorbike. Robertson submitted a false loan
application claiming she needed money for her four businesses. She also transferred funds to
family members. [Video clip]
Wait — the election is still six months away! Downtown
Atlanta water service disrupted, forcing business closings and boil water notice.
Atlanta officials were slowly repressuring the city's water system Saturday after corroding water
pipes burst in downtown and Midtown, forcing many businesses and attractions to close and affecting
water service in area homes. The problems began Friday morning and crews were still working
Saturday to restore service. The department issued a boil water advisory for a large swath of
metro Atlanta and asked the public to restrict water usage to allow the pressure in the system to rebuild.
Biden's
presidential motorcade drives through deep blue Atlanta neighborhood, but draws only sparse
crowd. President Joe Biden's motorcade drove through deep blue Atlanta this weekend
to little fanfare, leading many to wonder about the enthusiasm for his 2024 campaign. In
2020, the president became the first Democrat to win a presidential election in Georgia in
30 years. The party also won both senate seats in the Southern state. But the
state's landscape has shifted significantly over the last four years, with recent polls suggesting
former president Donald Trump is in the lead in the Peach State.
Georgia
man arrested and charged with murdering a law student in 23-year-old cold case. A
Georgia man was recently charged with murdering a 23-year-old first-year law student Tara Louise
Baker and subsequently setting her apartment on fire 23 years ago, according to the New York
Post. Edrick Lamont Faust, 48, was denied bond in Athens after he was charged with murder,
two counts of felony murder, one count of aggravated assault, concealing the death of another,
arson, possession of a knife during the commission of a felony, tampering with evidence, and a
single count of aggravated sodomy. Baker was ultimately found dead in her apartment on
January 19, 2001, after emergency responders were called to the scene due to a fire that was
later discovered to be arson, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Armed
man killed, 3 officers wounded in Atlanta street altercation, police say. Three
Atlanta police officers were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after an altercation that left a
suspect dead Saturday evening, authorities said. Officers responded at 5:15 p.m. to a
report of an armed man in a commercial area on Fairbanks Street and encountered a man with a
handgun and a knife on Desoto Avenue, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said during a news conference.
Board
Refuses To Have Fulton County Investigated For Double-Scanning 3,000 Ballots In 2020
Recount. Two Republican members of the Fulton County Board of Registration and
Elections voted not to certify the 2020 presidential election citing a litany of concerns with the
county's election administration. Now — four years later — the State
Election Board (SEB) chided the county for violating the law during the 2020 election but stopped
short of referring the case for further investigation by the attorney general. The SEB ruled
2-1 Tuesday that Fulton County must have an independent election monitor to oversee its elections
after it found more than 3,000 ballots were scanned twice during the 2020 presidential
recount. The Georgia secretary of state's office could not confirm how many of the ballots
that were scanned twice were also counted, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution (AJC).
Three
Innocent Bystanders Are Shot During Shootout At Atlanta Gas Station. Three innocent
bystanders were shot during a gas station shootout in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm sure these are
all legally obtained guns. According to police, two "groups" of people started shooting at
each other in the parking lot. None of the people who were shot had any connection to the two
groups. One witness called the shooting "like an old, cowboy-style shooting." [Video clip]
Georgia
Defendant Harrison Floyd Catches Fani Willis in a New Crime!. Harrison Floyd, former
leader of Black Voices for Trump and a defendant in Fani Willis's lawfare suit against President
Trump and his associates, caught Fulton County District Attorney committing another crime. It
is already widely known that Willis committed perjury when lying in court about the length of her
affair with her lead prosecutor on the case, Nathan Wade. Both Willis and Wade lied about
when their affair started in order to cover up that she hired him not on his talent or legal mind
but because she could then work with the traffic attorney and pay him for his services in the Trump
RICO case. Wade was forced to resign from the case for committing the exact same crimes as
his lover who is still overseeing the case against the former president. The legacy media has
completely ignored Fani's lawlessness as they cover this charade.
Fani
Willis [has been] Told to Recuse Herself From Trump Case or Face Jail. One of Donald
Trump's co-defendants in his Georgia election interference case has threatened to launch legal
action against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis if she "does not recuse herself from
this case by noon on Monday." [...] In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Harrison Floyd wrote: "I
don't want to put a black woman in Jail. But if Fani Willis does not recuse herself from this
case by noon on Monday, I may have no other choice than to pursue all lawful remedies. Make
Fulton Great Again." [Tweet]
Vectoring
Dangerously. [Scroll down] The Fani Willis case down south, another
political prosecution by a loudmouth "Get Trump" DA, now goes forward with a compromised government
attorney who has demonstrably committed enough offenses against the law to merit disbarment.
Her lover and, until recently, "special prosecutor," Nathan Wade, on top of probably perjuring
himself about his financial entanglements with DA Willis, was just cited for contempt in his own
divorce case (failure to pay child support).
Judge
sets new hearing date in 2020 Georgia election interference case. In a Monday
afternoon [3/25/2024] order, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set a new hearing date
in the 2020 election interference case. Attorneys representing former president Donald Trump
and former Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer are due back in court on Thursday for a
hearing to address three motions, according to the judge's order. [...] Former president Trump's
attorney, Steve Sadow, has asked the court to dismiss the indictment against Trump. He argues
that Trump's alleged criminal conduct was actually political speech protected by the First Amendment.
Fani
Willis Just Proved She Hasn't Learned Her Lesson. Fani Willis hasn't learned her
lesson nor does she feel any semblance of shame. The disgraced Fulton County district
attorney doubled down Saturday after she was caught having — and hiding — an
affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, the private-practice attorney she had hired to helm the
prosecution of former President Donald Trump. Wade was paid $654,000 for his work on the
Trump case and spent portions of his taxpayer-funded paychecks on luxury "vacations across the
world" the two took together as lovers, including trysts in Aruba, the Bahamas, Belize, and Napa
Valley. [Tweet with video clip] Speaking to CNN at an Easter event hosted by
Laster Chapel United Methodist Church, where she posed for selfies and handed out baskets to
children, Willis said she doesn't feel the need to rehabilitate her reputation with Fulton County
residents. In fact, she feels "more loved" by the community and specifically supported by women.
Congresswoman
Moves to Disbar Fani Willis in Georgia. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) this
week announced she filed a complaint to ask for the disbarment of Fulton County District Attorney
Fani Willis over her relationship with a former special counsel involved in the Trump case.
On social media, Ms. Greene wrote that she is filing the complaint and alleged Ms. Willis
engaged in "corrupt actions." The district attorney, she wrote, "should've been removed from
her political persecution of President Trump after it was revealed she went on lavish vacations
with her lover Nathan Wade," adding that Mr. Wade was "paid hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Judge
McAfee Ruling Is The Latest Blow to Public Trust in Government. Last week, Judge
McAfee's ruling in the Georgia racketeering against President Trump and associates contributed to
the lawfare farce. The District Attorney, Fani Willis, hired and paid her boyfriend, Nathan
Wade, some $650k for his services as lead prosecutor despite his complete lack of experience with
much beyond traffic cases. Wade used that money to purchase expensive dinners, hotels, and
exotic vacations for both of them. Willis claims she repaid him in cash despite the absence
of a receipt or notation for any of it. There was plenty of sordid testimony about Willis'
unprofessional conduct, poor decision-making, and romantic relationship with Wade — much
of that testimony coming from Willis and Wade themselves. This was despite the fact that
Willis had repeatedly pledged in her 2020 campaign, "I will certainly not be choosing to date
people that work under me." Both Willis and Wade testified that their relationship began only
after Willis indicted President Trump.
President
Trump Lawyers Ask for an Appellate Review of Judge McAffee Decision Against Fani
Willis. When Atlanta Judge Scott McAfee ruled recently in the Fani Willis decision
TechnoFog noted, "Judge McAfee rules that only one potential liar can prosecute the
case — but not both potential liars. Instead of curing the "appearance of
impropriety", it allows it to continue. If Nathan Wade goes, why can Fani Willis stay?
McAfee doesn't give an answer." To chase down this judicial question, lawyers representing
President Trump and seven co-defendants, collectively accused of RICO conspiracy, today asked
McAfee to issue a certificate of immediate review of his order denying disqualification of Fani
Willis. The certificate, if issued, would allow the defendants to seek an immediate appeal of
the order. Because in order for President Trump to appeal the order denying disqualification
prior to trial, the defendants must obtain a certificate of immediate review within 10 days
from the date of the order. Today Trump's lawyers asked for that certificate.
Trump,
Co-defendants Challenge Judge's Ruling Allowing Fani Willis to Stay. Steve Sadow,
attorney to former President Donald Trump, filed on March 18 a request for review of Fulton
County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee's decision to allow Fulton County District Attorney Fani
Willis to remain on the high-profile Georgia election case. Co-defendants Rudy Giuliani, Mark
Meadows, Robert Cheeley, Michael Roman, David Shafer, Harrison Floyd, and Cathleen Latham, who had
joined the initial motion for disqualification, joined the motion for a certificate of immediate
review. "Defendants believe that the relevant case law requires dismissal of the case, or at
the very least, the disqualification of the District Attorney and her entire office under the facts
that exist here, and the resignation of Mr. Wade is insufficient to cure the appearance of
impropriety the Court has determined exists," the motion reads.
Trump,
co-defendants request to appeal Georgia judge's ruling keeping Fani Willis on case.
Former President Trump and several of his co-defendants are asking Fulton County Superior Court
Judge Scott McAfee for permission to appeal after he ruled against dismissing the case and
disqualifying District Attorney Fani Willis. McAfee last week denied a full dismissal of the
case against Trump and Willis' disqualification. Instead, he demanded that Fulton County
special prosecutor Nathan Wade resign from the case. McAfee warned that without Wade's
withdrawal, Willis would be disqualified from prosecuting Trump. Wade withdrew within hours
of the judge's order. Four co-defendants had accused Willis of having an "improper" affair
with Wade, whom she hired to help prosecute the case. Willis and Wade have denied the claims.
Laken
Riley murder inspires Georgia pizzeria owner to run for office: 'I had a reality check'.
The murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley has inspired a local pizzeria owner to run for
office. Sidney Anne Waters, who owns Mama Sid's Pizza, is running for a slot on the
Athens-Clarke County Commission because of Riley's death — and the illegal immigrant
who's been arrested in connection with the brutal slaying. "I... all of a sudden... had a
reality check... There are a lot of us in Athens that really didn't know what our government was
doing... The day before... qualifying ending, I decided I would go in and put my name on the
ticket," Waters told Fox News Friday.
From
Georgia to New York, 2024 could turn on the odor of selective prosecution. The
removal of lead special prosecutor Nathan Wade from Donald Trump's prosecution had the feel of a
Southern Gothic. Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis had described Wade as
"a Southern gentleman. Me, not so much." For weeks, the public has been enthralled by
accounts of Wade's illicit affair with Willis. Then there was the roughly three-quarters of a
million dollars paid to Wade before he was booted from the case this week. Channeling
Tennessee Williams in his play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Judge Scott McAfee wrote that, after their
testimony, there remained "an odor of mendacity." That odor was particularly strong after the
hearings indicated that Wade may have committed perjury in his earlier divorce case, and that both
Willis and Wade were credibly accused of lying on the stand about when their relationship
began. They are prosecuting defendants in the Trump case accused of the same underlying
conduct, including 19 individual counts of false statements, false filings or perjury.
It's
A Miscarriage Of Justice To Let Fani Willis Keep Prosecuting Trump. Fani Willis and
the Fulton County district attorney's office can remain in charge of the prosecution of Donald
Trump and his Republican co-defendants so long as Willis's former lover resigns, presiding Judge
Scott McAfee ruled Friday. Within hours of the decision, Nathan Wade — now
Willis's ex — exited the case. While McAfee declared that half-measure solved the
problem of an "appearance of impropriety," the court's reasoning established that true justice
requires the removal of Willis and the entire Fulton County D.A.'s office. Judge McAfee's
23-page opinion followed a two-month spectacle that began when defendant Michael Roman filed a
motion to dismiss the charges brought against him by Willis and to have the Fulton County D.A.'s
office disqualified from prosecuting the case. Willis had charged Roman, a Trump 2020
campaign official, along with former President Donald Trump and 17 other defendants in a
sprawling 98-page indictment that included some 41 different counts.
Guilty! —
But Not Really Guilty? [Scroll down] That was an incoherent decision,
given that Willis had hired Wade, had become romantically involved with him, and had collated their
testimonies. Willis, not Wade, was the architect of the deceit and yet remained free to
continue her prosecution of Trump. As in the Hur case, in compensatory fashion, McAfee
editorialized about the roguery of the two. And also, as in the Hur case, the judge
essentially exempted Willis from the legal consequences that her criminality had earned.
"However, an odor of mendacity remains. The Court is not under an obligation to ferret out
every instance of potential dishonesty from each witness or defendant ever presented ... Yet
reasonable questions about whether the District Attorney and her hand-selected lead SADA testified
untruthfully about the timing of their relationship further underpin the finding of an appearance
of impropriety and the need to make proportional efforts to cure it." In the end, the judge
gave Willis the choice to remove herself or her paramour Wade from the prosecution; she chose
Wade. But apparently forgotten was the reality that Willis, not Wade, appointed such an
unqualified boyfriend as her chief counsel and established his compensation. It was Willis,
not Wade, who was the recipient of free trips and perks. It was Willis, not Wade, who was
most contradicted by other witnesses. And, of course, Willis, not Wade, was the driver behind
the entire prosecution of the ex-president and current leading contender for the presidency.
Turley:
The Best Thing For Trump May Be For Fani Willis To Continue To Lead The Case, She's "Damaged
Goods". Fox News contributor and GWU law professor Jonathan Turley on Friday told FOX
News host Laura Ingraham that Fulton County DA Fani Willis is damaged goods. Turley said on
'The Ingraham Angle' that the best thing for former President Donald Trump may be for her to
continue to lead the case. "Nobody reading this opinion with these damning findings could
possibly believe that Willis can continue to be part of this case," Turley said. "She is
prosecuting people for the underlining conduct she is accused of committing with Nathan Wade.
False statements given to a court. False filings that have been submitted. How could
she possibly continue that without damaging her case? But the problem is that she has had
this opportunity to take the high road, repeatedly, and she clearly had never wanted to do that and
this will probably be her last chance to do the right thing and to remove herself." "She is
damaged goods," Turley told Ingraham.
Trump
prosecutor Nathan Wade resigns from Fani Willis's office. Fulton County special
prosecutor Nathan Wade resigned from the office Friday after a judge ruled either he or District
Attorney Fani Willis must step aside from her office's election subversion case against former
President Donald Trump after revelations of their romantic relationship. [...] Wade's resignation
follows an order by Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee Friday morning that determined Willis would
not be disqualified from the case but gave her office an ultimatum to have Wade step down over the
"appearance of impropriety." Wade, an Atlanta-area attorney, had been paid more than $700,000 to
work on the case. McAfee made his decision following a tumultuous legal saga that began when
one of Trump's co-defendants, Mike Roman, alleged in a Jan. 8 motion that Willis and Wade were
involved in a romantic relationship. The point of contention became not the relationship
itself but whether Willis benefited from appointing Wade to handle the case.
Jonathan
Turley: Fani Should Have Stepped Down — How is One Guilty and Not the
Other? Earlier today Judge Scott McAfee ruled that he will allow crooked Fulton
County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on her case against President Donald Trump.
But Judge McAfee says orders her to address the "appearance of impropriety" before the case can
move forward. McAfee ruled Willis can stay on the case but must fire her lover Nathan Wade,
the traffic attorney, from the case. This is despite the fact that Willis and Wade both lied
under oath about their affair.
Fani
Willis Is Probably Guilty of Perjury: Who Will Prosecute the Prosecutors? If
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis were prosecuting citizen Fani Willis and her former
boyfriend Nathan Wade for perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice, she would have an
extremely strong case. The evidence of perjury is overwhelming; many individuals have been
convicted on far less evidence. Recall that Willis and Wade testified under oath to the
material fact that Willis did not hire Wade as special prosecutor while they were having a romantic
relationship. They both testified that the romantic relationship began after the hiring
decision was made. If that was a deliberate lie, it satisfies all the elements of
perjury. Let us look at the evidence. First, there is the testimony of two witnesses,
both of whom have provided evidence that the relationship began before Wade's appointment as
special prosecutor. As Willis herself reminded us when she was challenged about having no
corroboration that she paid Wade back in cash, the testimony of one witness is evidence —
meaning her own self-serving testimony — certainly, the testimony of two witnesses is
even better evidence. In addition, there is the text by another witness confirming that the
relationship began earlier than testified to.
New
Book Admits Fani Willis' Get-Trump Investigation Began With Illegal Recording.
Democrat Fani Willis' legal troubles extend beyond recent revelations that she deceptively hired
her otherwise under-qualified, secret, married lover to run the political prosecution of former
President Donald Trump and other Republicans in Georgia. A new book from Mike Isikoff and
Daniel Klaidman admits that a widely misunderstood phone call, on which Willis' political
prosecution rests, was illegally recorded. That means the entire prosecution could crumble
with defendants having a new avenue to challenge Democrat lawfare.
19,000
Single Family Atlanta Homes [are] Owned by Three Corporations. "A recent study by
Georgia State University researchers found that three corporations own more than 19,000 homes in
Atlanta's five metro counties," WSB-TV in Atlanta reports. [Advertisement] The study
found that "Invitation Homes, Premium Partners (which operates Progress Residential), and Amherst
Holdings (which operates Mainstreet Renewal) own around 11 percent of all single-family homes
for rent in the state." [Advertisement] "In smaller neighborhoods, sometimes that's
upwards of 50 percent," GSU professor Taylor Shelton said. "Just a decade ago or so ago, none
of these companies even existed." "The homes that most of these companies are buying are
exactly the kind of homes that 15, 20, 30 years ago would have been starter homes," Shelton
added. "Whether you are renting or buying, the effect of these companies is they are driving up
prices for everybody." [Advertisement] Here's the video report: [Advertisement]
[Video clip]
Things
Go Off The Rails At A Georgia Six Flags As 600 Youths Go Wild, Several Fights Break Out, One Person
Shot. Multiple suspects are being sought after a 15-year-old was shot when police
exchanged gunfire with what they described as an "unruly crowd" of up to 600 people near the
Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park in suburban Atlanta, authorities say. The shooting
erupted around 6:15 p.m. Saturday on a service road just off the 290-acre theme park's
property in Austell, about 17 miles northwest of Atlanta, according to the Cobb County Police
Department. Before the shooting, Cobb County police officers were called to the park by Six
Flags Over Georgia security to help disperse "a sizeable unruly crowd" of 500 to 600 people
"running through the park and fighting," Cobb County police said in a statement to Atlanta ABC
affiliate WSB-TV. [Video clip]
Hundreds
of [Black] Teens Riot at Six Flags Over Georgia. As many as 600 teenagers, most of
them black, rioted Saturday night at Six Flags Over Georgia. At least one teen was shot
Cobb County officers said between 500-600 teens were "running through the park and fighting."
At one point th crowd opened fire on officers as they ran onto Six Flags Parkway.
The
Fani Willis Scandal Is So Much Bigger Than Trump. Is any public figure having a worse
start to the year than Fani Willis? The once-lauded Fulton County prosecutor was billed as
the savior of "democracy" not too long ago. [...] During the recent hearings on her misconduct,
Willis claimed that she paid Wade back. The proof? There is none. According to
Willis, she used a horde of cash she keeps at her home, but not a single receipt or bank statement
has been produced to prove any transfer of money was made. Things have gotten so bad that
both Wade and Willis are now facing discipline from the Georgia State Bar, but that may be the
least of their worries. What started as a prosecution of Trump has become its own story, and
it can't be ignored. Even if the former president weren't involved, this would still be a
major scandal. A top prosecutor in one of America's largest cities was funneling cash to a
married man she was sleeping with and then going on vacations paid for by that money. Forget
disbarment. We could be talking about removal from office and even criminal charges for
Willis at some point in the future.
Why
[a] Georgia Judge Won't Disqualify Fani Willis. Any rational person familiar with the
behavior of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis during the prosecutorial misconduct
hearings that finally ended last Friday has probably concluded that her conduct has created the
"appearance of impropriety." This, according to defense lawyers for former President Trump and
several co-defendants, is sufficient to disqualify Willis and the Fulton County DA's office from
prosecuting the RICO case they launched last August. Indeed, defense attorney Harry
MacDougald cited six examples of actual conflicts of interest, any one of which is
sufficient to disqualify Willis and her office. Yet it's unlikely that it will happen.
Why not? The decision must be made by Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who said on Friday
that he would rule on the motion to disqualify Willis and her office in about two weeks.
Unfortunately for the defendants, McAfee is a temporary appointee to the bench who must face Fulton
County voters for the first time about 60 days after his ruling.
Fani
Willis and Nathan Wade [are] Now Facing Trouble With the Georgia State Bar. After all
the problems regarding Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her former paramour, whom
she appointed to be a special prosecutor in the Trump election case, you knew that they were going
to be in trouble. Now, they have been referred by a watchdog group to the Georgia state bar
for misconduct. The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) is alleging that the pair
violated the rules of professional conduct in ethics complaints they filed with the bar. The
AAF claims Wade lied under oath about the relationship with Willis and that Willis kept campaign
money for personal use, and admitted it during her testimony. The Foundation is asking that
the bar take action against both Willis and Wade to permanently ban them from the practice of
law. The Foundation was upset about this part of Willis' testimony that we reported on, and
thought it needed more investigation. [Tweet]
Fani
Willis, Nathan Wade Referred To Georgia Bar For Alleged Ethics Violations. Fulton
County District Attorney Fani Willis likely thought that her case against former President Donald
Trump would be the highlight of her career, but now it appears that it may end it. The
district attorney who is embroiled in a scandal with her former lover, and prosecutor on the Trump
case, Nathan Wade, just got another hard hit, Fox News reported. She and Wade have been
referred to the Georgia State Bar for alleged misconduct by a watchdog group. "The American
Accountability Foundation (AAF) is requesting that the Georgia state bar open disciplinary
proceedings against the Fulton County DA and Wade for violations of the Georgia Rules of
Professional Conduct," the Fox News report said.
Whole
Lotta Lyin' Goin' On. Attorney Terrence Bradley testified yesterday in the hearing on
the possible disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Counsel
Nathan Wade in the "conspiracy so immense" charges against President Trump et al. pending in
Georgia state court. Bradley is Wade's former law partner and lawyer in his divorce
proceeding. He knows when the Willis/Wade romance began because Wade told him. Indeed,
as Techno Fog notes, Bradley has previously stated in text messages to Ashleigh Merchant (attorney
for defendant Michael Roman) that: (1) the relationship between Willis and Wade started before
he was appointed special prosecutor, (2) the relationship started while they were both magistrate
judges, and (3) the motion to disqualify Willis, which alleged the start date of the relationship,
was accurate. However, that's not the way it turned out on the witness stand.
Fani
Willis Plays the Stooge. Well, I'm running out of popcorn watching Atlanta's version
of the criminal comedy genre. According to Breitbart News, Jeff DiSantis may be the
mastermind of the Atlanta chapter of the "get Joe Biden re-elected at all costs" caper. He's
a longtime Democrat party operative, conveniently placed in the Fulton County DA's office, in time
to run the Trump RICO case — behind the scenes of course. The county's district
attorney, Fani Willis, is providing an Academy Award-worthy performance as the stooge which the
mastermind wishes he hadn't recruited. But per President "Return to Normalcy's" orders, he
needed a diversity hire with prosecutorial authority, negotiable ethical standards, and enough ego
to be the public face of the conspiracy. As a comedy, the plot also called for someone with
insufficient mental acuity to play her part smartly. Fani was the logical choice. [...] Once
Fani's indiscretions exposed the criminal conspiracy (Her's, not Trump's), the RICO defense
attorneys asked that she and her boytoy be disqualified from the case due to conflict of interest.
Apparently, Georgia frowns on making money on the side for trying to put people in jail.
Former
Employees Reveal Fani Willis's Extreme DEI Training: Forced to Associate 'White' with 'Bad',
Judges Ranked on Skin Color. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis subjected
her employees to mandatory race training, forcing the entire office to rate "Black" or "White" skin
colors as either "Good" or "Bad," according to training slides and video exclusively obtained by
Breitbart News. "If you didn't participate in the quiz, you got fired," a source exclusively
told Breitbart News about Willis's policy. Sources who shared the race training with
Breitbart News wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution due to their direct knowledge of
the "corrupt" and "hostile work environment" inside the District Attorney's Office. Sources
described the race training as a directive straight from Willis, "[who] injected racism [into the
office] from the second she got hired." Willis won election in 2020 and is up for reelection
this November. In 2021, she began probing former President Donald Trump.
Judge
Rules No Attorney-Client Privilege for Witness Who Can Blow Fani Willis Scandal Wide Open.
Judge McAfee has concluded that the attorney for Nathan Wade must retake the |stand at the Fani Willis
hearings and that he must answer questions that are not protected by the attorney-client privilege.
"A witness in the ongoing Fulton County district attorney disqualification controversy met behind closed
doors with the judge overseeing the case Monday," two lawyers involved with the case confirmed to
11Alive. "The witness, Terrence Bradley, is a former law partner and one-time divorce attorney
for special prosecutor Nathan Wade," the report continued.
Judge
Orders Wade Attorney to Testify About Fani. And it could come as early as this
afternoon. After an in camera session with Terrence Bradley, Judge Scott McAfee ruled late
last night that Nathan Wade's divorce attorney could not be shielded from testifying under a claim
of attorney-client privilege. As a result, Bradley has to testify as to his personal
knowledge about Wade's relationship wth Fani Willis. And given how hard Wade and Bradley
fought to prevent this, one can presume that Bradley's story will line up better with the
cell-phone records than the story told by Wade and Willis under oath: [...] As the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution reminded its readers last night, defense attorneys in the Georgia v Trump
et al RICO case already have one witness that testified that Wade and Willis were lying.
Robin Yeartie put the start of their romantic relationship years earlier, in 2019, not 2022 during
the case. If that's true — and having 2000 phone calls and 12,000 text messages in
the ten months prior to Willis' hiring of Wade and Wade's divorce filing makes that seem
very likely — then Wade's law partner probably knows it.
Fulton
County DA Fani Willis and Lover Nathan Wade Exchanged 11,865 Text Messages Before He Was Hired to
Prosecute Trump. The latest revelations against Fani Willis and Nathan Wade could not
be more problematic for the two lovebirds. A new court filing revealed this past weekend that
Fani and Nathan exchanged 11,865 text messages in the months leading up to their famed case against
Donald Trump and 18 associates for allegedly lying about the 2020 election. It's obvious
Willis and Wade lied under oath about the length of their affair. Now the two lovers could
and should face charges for committing perjury. This could be the end of the line for Fani
and Nathan.
Biden
Admin Planted Operative Jeff DiSantis in Fani Willis' Office to Target Trump, Sources Say.
The Biden administration planted a Democrat operative inside a Fulton County office to target
former President Donald Trump, multiple sources familiar with the Fulton County District Attorney's
Office exclusively told Breitbart News. If the Biden administration planted the operative, as
the sources say, it would present a strong argument that the administration interfered in the 2024
presidential election. Breitbart News granted the sources anonymity to discuss the attorney's
office for fear of retribution. The sources have direct knowledge of the environment at the
District Attorney's Office, which they characterized as "corrupt."
Activist
Media Outlets Run Cover for Fulton County DA Fani Willis, Claim Scrutiny Is Motivated by
Racism. It was only a matter of time before folks on the left began throwing race
into the saga surrounding embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Activist
media outlets have begun spinning the narrative that the criticism and scrutiny of the prosecutor
isn't about her inappropriate romantic relationship with one of the prosecutors she hired to handle
the election interference case against former President Donald Trump but about the color of her
skin and her sex. The New York Times and Associated Press have published pieces
intimating that the furor over Willis' alleged corruption was due to racism and sexism and not the
fact that she clearly engaged in a torrid affair with prosecutor Nathan Wade. The only thing
surprising about this is that it took them so long to begin weaving this narrative.
Exclusive:
Nathan Wade Led Fani Willis 2020 Transition into Office. Nathan Wade "made the
decisions to hire or fire" employees in Fulton County District Attorney's Office following Fulton
County prosecutor Fani Willis' election victory in November 2020, multiple sources familiar
with the Wade and Willis relationship exclusively told Breitbart News. The revelation of
Wade's previously unreported position as the former personnel decision-maker for the District
Attorney's Office raises ethical and conflict of interest concerns. It also raises questions
about whether Wade and Willis have been forthright about the timeline of their affair.
Fani
Willis Demands Judge Reject Cellphone Evidence Suggesting Relationship With Fellow
Prosecutor. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has called on Judge Scott
McAfee to disallow as evidence cellphone records submitted by Trump lawyers suggesting she and
special prosecutor Nathan Wade may have lied about when their romantic relationship began.
Ms. Willis's objection to the new evidence, which Trump attorneys say adds weight to their
argument she hired her then-boyfriend for mutual financial gain in a corrupt bargain and should be
disqualified, came in a Feb. 23 court filing. Former President Donald Trump's attorneys,
Steve Sadow and Jennifer Little, filed a court affidavit on Friday from a private investigator
hired to obtain Mr. Wade's and Ms. Willis's text and voice call history.
Fani
for Vice President! First, let's recap why her law career is ending. Fani's
case against Donald Trump includes a preposterous RICO charge for violating the racketeering
laws. Fani has no expertise in that arcane law, so she hired her boyfriend and paid him
three-quarters of a million taxpayer dollars for his expertise. Never mind that he, too, has
no such expertise, having never tried a RICO case. The scheme worked well for Fani and the
boyfriend, for a while. The boyfriend took Fani on expensive vacations to exotic places, paid
for by the taxpayer money he received from Fani's office. Fani says she always paid him back
for her half, but the payback was in untraceable cash that she kept around the house. There's
no bank record of her withdrawing that cash, and no bank record of him depositing that cash.
To casual observers, and, more importantly, to the judge, this all looked a little crafty and grafty.
CPAC:
Jim Jordan says [a] whistleblower from Fani Willis' office [is] talking to his committee.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan said Friday that his panel has been in touch with a
whistleblower who was fired from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's office. "There's
a whistleblower in her office who we have talked to ... ," Jordan said at the annual CPAC
event outside of Washington, D.C., in suburban Maryland. He also said Willis fired this former
staffer for bringing forth concerns that the Georgia prosecutor was misusing federal funds.
"She's now talking with our office and we'll see where that goes," Jordan said. "And that's
why we subpoenaed for records and documents related to this."
Trump
Private Investigator: New Phone Data Casts Serious Doubt on Fani Willis Relationship.
Former President Donald Trump's Georgia attorneys hired a private investigator to obtain calls between
the Fulton County district attorney and her special counsel, finding they allegedly made more than 2,000
calls and 12,000 texts in 2021, many months before their relationship allegedly started, according to a
court filing. Trump attorneys Steve Sadow and Jennifer Little on Friday filed a court affidavit
from a private investigator to provide a text and voice call history for the special counsel, Nathan
Wade. Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade have been accused of engaging in an improper and secretive
relationship in which Ms. Willis financially benefitted from public funds. Last week during
testimony, the pair acknowledged they had a romantic relationship, asserting that the relationship started
after she hired Mr. Wade in the Trump case. Both also denied that Ms. Willis financially
benefitted from the arrangement. The report from the investigator, Charles Mittelstadt, said he used
CellHawk, a geo-mapping and analysis program, to report that allegedly "more than 2,000 voice calls and
just under 12,000 text messages [were] exchanged over the 11-month period in 2021" between the two.
Trump
Lawyers: Nathan Wade's Cell Phone Data Contradicts Testimony — 'Could Constitute
Perjury'. Cellphone data obtained from AT&T through subpoena strongly suggests that
Nathan Wade made 35 trips to Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis's Hapeville neighborhood,
contradicting his testimony of just ten visits, an affidavit filed Friday by Trump attorneys
contends. The filing, if true, suggests Wade might have committed perjury. Fulton
Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee will decide whether to admit the affidavit and the phone records
into evidence. Willis is the lover of Wade — a fellow prosecutor she hired to
prosecute former President Donald Trump in the election interference case. Trump and
codefendant Mike Roman accuse Willis of maintaining an improper romantic relationship with Wade.
We're
Living Under A Tyranny Of Mediocre Morons. You might think that it would be difficult
to cause any kind of serious problem in a Wendy's drive-thru. The concept is pretty
simple: You sit in the car, and when it's your turn, you drive up, get your order, and then
you drive off. In an orderly society, it's a pretty straight-forward, fool-proof
system. But in the days after George Floyd was canonized, of course, all rules were
suspended. Things started breaking down. Accordingly, on June 12 of that year, a
27-year-old man named Rayshard Brooks decided to treat the Wendy's drive-thru like a motel
room. He got drunk out of his mind and passed out in his car, as he waited to get his
hamburger and frosty. Then, when two police officers arrived in an attempt to keep the
drive-thru moving, Brooks started fighting with one of the officers, stole his taser, and began
running away. A few seconds later, Brooks turned around and pointed the stolen taser at the
officers, at which point he was shot and killed. It was not only a justified police shooting
but perhaps one of the most justified police shootings ever caught on film. Nevertheless,
just a few days later, the top prosecutor in Fulton County Georgia, a guy named Paul Howard,
decided to charge both officers on the scene with a variety of crimes.
Georgia
Republicans target Atlanta squatters with hard-hitting bill: 'No more free rides'.
Georgia lawmakers are taking aim at Atlanta's squatting crisis with a proposed bill that would make
the act a clear criminal offense in the Peach State as neighborhoods around the metro area continue
to assess the situation with tied hands. Approximately 1,200 homes have been taken over by
squatters, according to the National Rental Home Council trade group, but with local law
enforcement bound by tenant rights laws, homeowners have limited options to reclaim their
property. HB 1017, the Georgia Squatter Reform Act, aims to make that process easier. "We
have to do something about this," Rep. Devan Seabaugh, a Republican co-sponsoring the bill,
told Fox News Digital on Monday. "We're dealing with criminals... These are people that know
exactly what they're doing, and they're stealing other people's most valuable capital, which is
their home. [...]"
BLM
activist says Atlanta [and the] entire nation are 'lucky' violence is not worse.
Atlanta BLM activist Mary Hooks said the city of Atlanta — indeed, the entire
nation — is "lucky" there haven't been a lot more fires started in the name of social
justice. Following the arrest of John Robert Mazurek, who allegedly lit up eight police
motorcycles last summer in protest of a planned police and firefighter training facility known as
"Cop City," Hooks was asked if she condemns acts of arson. A member of Vote to Stop Cop City,
"a group of local, statewide, and regional organizations and individuals who are united in opposition
to Cop City," Hooks replied, "Hell no!" "Not at all," she stated. "And if I'm
being honest with you, Atlanta deserves more than that." [Tweet with video clip]
Atlanta
Police Arrest Suspect in Arson Connected to 'Cop City' Protests. Last summer the
organizers behind the efforts to block the construction of a police training center outside Atlanta
seemed to have reached the end of their rope. The so-called "forest defenders" had been
cleared out of the forest and their efforts to oppose the construction legally had hit a wall after
a day long protest at Atlanta City Hall failed to change any votes and the project moved
forward. As I pointed out at the time, the protesters weren't shy about what they planned to
do next. They were chanting "If you build it, we will burn it," outside City Hall. [Tweet]
So it wasn't much of a shock when the same organizers held a "Week of Action" about a month later
that there was an arson attacked aimed at Atlanta police.
1,200
homes in Atlanta are now occupied by squatters. Atlanta is battling a squatting
crisis as 1,200 homes have been overtaken and landlords have to clear the unwanted residents
themselves or wait months for police. The situation has become so dire that some homeowners
offer to pay off squatters to get them out of their homes[,] rather than risk losing months of
rent. One squat in the Georgia city was even being run as illegal secret strip club and had
to be cleared out by an entire FBI swat team. Matt Urbanski, who runs a home cleaning company
in Atlanta and cleans 40 squatted homes a month, told Bloomberg: 'I'd be terrified in Atlanta to
lease out one of my properties.
Fulton
County DA Fani Willis Subpoenaed by House Committee. The Republican-led House
Judiciary Committee sent a subpoena on Friday to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to
obtain documents related to possible misuse of federal funds related to her case against former
President Donald Trump and more than a dozen other co-defendants. In a letter sent by House
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), he noted that the committee in August 2023 had
requested documents regarding the usage of federal funds. However, he said even after two
letters were sent to her office last year, she has "failed to comply voluntarily with any of our
requests." "In accordance with the attached Schedule instructions, you, Fani T. Willis, in
your capacity as the District Attorney of Fulton County and head of the Fulton County District
Attorney's Office, are required to produce the following items in your possession, custody, or
control, from the period of September 1, 2020, to present in unredacted form," it said before
making specific requests for documents and communications related to federal funds usage or
allegations about their misuse.
Secret
Room Under Atlanta Airport Seems To Be Housing Illegal Immigrants, Guarded By US
Servicemen. [V]ideo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation appears
to show a U.S. service member guarding a room chock-full of illegal immigrants at Atlanta's
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Republican state Sen. Colton Moore, who is the
vice chairman of the Georgia Freedom Caucus, took the video Tuesday night and told the DCNF that he
learned of the hidden room full of migrants through a "whistleblower" at Atlanta's airport, who
noticed an influx of illegal migrants coming through the facility in recent months. In the
video, there appears to be a uniformed soldier guarding a room full of migrants and volunteers with
a group called Team Libertad, which boasts of helping migrants travel on its social media
accounts. [Video clip]
Is
there a more overrated politician than Stacey Abrams? Over the past seven years, many
Democratic politicians have been elevated as liberal heroes of "the Resistance." Perhaps none may
have been more overrated by a loving liberal media than Stacey Abrams. Abrams rose to stardom
during the 2018 election cycle, hailed as the Democrat who could flip Georgia blue while running
for governor. She ended up losing in a Democratic-wave year and claiming that the election
was stolen from her. She refused to concede, and yet she was not given the election-denier
treatment as Republicans were after 2020. Instead, she was humored all the way to her 2022
campaign, in which she lost handily. [...] Abrams's group, Fair Fight, is now $2.5 million in
debt with just $1.9 million in cash available. The group filed lawsuits to peddle
Abrams's fabricated "voter suppression" narrative and is now broke and laying off staff.
Stacey
Abrams' liberal voting rights group lays off most staffers. Stacey Abrams' liberal
voting rights group Fair Fight is laying off most of its staffers and reducing its operations in
response to increasing legal debts. Lauren Groh-Wargo, who led the group until she stepped
down to run Abrams' second unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial run in 2022, said she would return to
the organization as interim chief executive to direct the cuts, The New York Times reported
Tuesday [1/30/2024]. Fair Fight is laying off 75% of its current staffers, or 20 employees,
per Groh-Wargo, as the group is $2.5 million in debt with $1.9 million cash on hand even
after raising about $100 million from 2018 to 2021.
State
Senator Discovers Migrants in 'Hidden Room' Inside Atlanta Airport, Gets Forced Out When Trying to
Record. A Republican Georgia state senator caused a fuss at Atlanta's airport Tuesday
night as he sought to document illegal immigrants passing through the facility. State
Sen. Colton Moore, vice chairman of the Georgia Freedom Caucus, said he went to Atlanta's
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after getting a tip from a whistleblower about the
presence of illegal immigrants at the airport, according to the Daily Caller. What he found
was a room filled with illegal immigrants with what appeared to be a U.S. soldier guarding them.
Fani
Willis gets slapped with 22 articles of impeachment. Fulton County District Attorney
Fani Willis has found herself in hot water over the past few weeks as allegations of misconduct
have sprung forth, casting a dark shadow on her behavior in the legal world, particularly as she
continues to spearhead the Georgia election-related case against President Donald Trump. As
reported by RSBN, a story surfaced in the media that broke allegations concerning Willis's
involvement with an alleged romantic partner whom she hired to prosecute Trump, thus resulting in
reported financial benefits. This partner has allegedly been identified as Nathan Wade, a
private attorney.
Fani
stands by her man: Atlanta DA cites 'confidentiality,' won't give records on Trump
case. The Georgia district attorney accused of having an affair with an attorney she
hired to prosecute former President Donald Trump responded to Congress on behalf of her alleged
lover Friday — saying "confidentiality interests" mean he can't hand over any
documents. Fulton County DA Fani Willis, who is facing calls even from allies to step off the
Trump case due to the allegations of improper self-dealing, fired off the defiant response after
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) reached out to her alleged paramour, Nathan
Wade. "Dear Mr. Jordan: I am writing to you regarding your January 12, 2024,
letter to Attorney Nathan Wade, who is retained by this office as a Special Assistant District
Attorney," Willis wrote to Jordan, who had demanded records from Wade of payments to him from
Willis' office, in addition to any records concerning contacts with the Biden administration.
Trump
joins effort to oust Fulton DA, citing racial bias. Donald Trump on Thursday joined a
push to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting Fulton County's election
interference case, saying her defiant remarks at a historic Black church showed "racial animus"
toward the former president and his co-defendants. In a court filing, Trump's two top Atlanta
attorneys accused Willis, who is Black, of a "glaring, flagrant, and calculated effort to foment
racial bias into this case." That could unfairly prejudice a jury, they said, and violated
Georgia's rules of professional conduct.
Fani
Willis Handed Lucrative Contracts To Her Alleged Lover's Law Partner. Fulton County
District Attorney Fani Willis' hired her alleged lover's law partner to work for her office at a
rate of $150 an hour, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News
Foundation — an arrangement that is raising eyebrows among legal experts who question
her spending of public funds. Christopher Campbell, a partner at Wade & Campbell Firm, has
received $126,070 from the Office of the District Attorney since 2021, according to county
records. Willis hired Campbell to provide services as a "Taint Attorney" reviewing privileged
evidence beginning in Jan. 2021 at a rate of $150 an hour, contracts obtained by the Daily
Caller News Foundation show. "Taint attorneys" help sift through files obtained from a search
warrant to filter out evidence covered by things like attorney-client privilege and prevent them
from being passed to prosecutors.
Fulton
County Commissioner Requests Fani Willis Produce Info On Alleged 'Misuse' Of County
Funds. Fulton County Commissioner Bob Ellis requested Friday that District Attorney
Fani Willis disclose information relating to her potential "misuse" of county funds in her decision
to appoint her alleged lover, Nathan Wade, as outside counsel in the case against former President
Donald Trump. Bank statements contained in a court filing Friday revealed that Wade purchased
two airline tickets in Willis' name, backing up allegations made in a motion by a Trump
co-defendant that she benefited from the "lucrative" contract she awarded Wade when he took her on
trips to these locations. Ellis told the Daily Caller News Foundation that "all Fulton county
citizens and taxpayers deserve clear and truthful answers" from Willis, who he earlier noted has
been "relatively obstinate" in answering questions from commissioners.
Nathan
Wade's Estranged Wife Jocelyn Wade Unleashes on Fani Willis in Court Filing. Fulton
County District Attorney Fani Willis is in hot water with her paramour Nathan Wade's estranged
wife, Jocelyn Wade. The Georgia RICO case against Trump might go off the rails because of
Fani Willis' 'improper' relationship with and financially benefitted from a top Trump
prosecutor she hired. As previously reported, Fani Willis had an 'improper' romantic
relationship with Nathan Wade, a top Trump prosecutor in her office. According to the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, Fani Willis "financially benefited" from a romantic relationship with Nathan
Wade, a top prosecutor she hired to go after President Trump.
Fani
Willis and the corrupt mainstream media. Last week contained more than one terrible,
horrible, no good, very bad day for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. On Monday,
January 8th, Ashleigh Merchant, lawyer for Michael Roman (one of the 18 Trump co-defendants in
The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al.), filed a "bombshell" motion alleging
that Willis "improperly hired an alleged romantic partner to prosecute Donald Trump and financially
benefited from their relationship." The "alleged romantic partner" is special prosecutor Nathan
Wade. [...] According to RedState, on the same day that Ashleigh Merchant filed her motion against
Willis and Nathan Wade, Jocelyn Wade subpoenaed Willis to appear for a deposition in the Wades'
divorce proceedings. This whole sorry saga is a disaster for the Fulton County DA and her
efforts to prosecute the former president.
Can
America Survive This Perversion of Our Justice System? Today's spectacle out of
Georgia: Fani Willis hired her lover, who has no experience trying felony cases, to be the
chief prosecutor in the election case against Donald Trump. While she was making
self-righteous and remarkably stupid pronouncements of her virtue and legal acumen, she was
sleeping with Mr. Ward, allegedly her lover, and allowing him to bill the State of Georgia
over $650,000. Among his bills, which she approved, are notations like a claim that he spent
24 hours on one day in November working on the case, requiring him to be paid for every minute
of that day by the State. Seriously?
Marjorie
Taylor Greene Files Complaint Requesting Criminal Investigation Into Fani Willis.
Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a complaint Wednesday requesting a
criminal investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Willis, who brought
the racketeering case against Trump and co-defendants for alleged efforts to overturn the 2020
election in Georgia, allegedly hired a man she is romantically involved with as special prosecutor
and approved "lucrative" compensation that he in turn used to take her on vacations, a motion filed
by a Trump co-defendant Monday alleged. Greene sent a criminal referral to Republican Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr on Wednesday expressing "serious concerns"
about the allegations, NBC News reported. "I request you order the immediate and formal
criminal investigation into the alleged criminal misconduct by Fulton County District Attorney Fani
Willis, along with her special Trump prosecutor and alleged boyfriend Nathan Wade, pursuant to your
authority under Georgia statute," Greene wrote.
Fulton
County DA Fani Willis Subpoenaed to Testify in Divorce Case. Soros-funded Fulton
County District Attorney Fani Willis has been subpoenaed to testify in the divorce proceedings of
Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she appointed to go after former President Donald Trump and his
associates. According to a court filing obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Willis was
served a subpoena at her Atlanta office for her testimony in the divorce case of Nathan Wade and
his wife, Joycelyn Wade. The nature of the questions Willis may face in the deposition
remains undisclosed in the subpoena document. According to WSJ, a spokesman for Willis
declined to comment regarding the subpoena. However, there has been a previous acknowledgment
from the prosecution team of an intention to respond to allegations regarding an inappropriate
relationship between Willis and Wade. As of Tuesday afternoon, no such response had been
recorded in the court files.
Verbal
Altercation Leads To The Murder Of A Mother Of 4 At Atlanta McDonald's. Police in
Georgia say a woman is dead and another is in custody after a dispute turned deadly at an
Atlanta-area McDonald's. According to the Atlanta Police Department, two female customers
inside the McDonald's got into an "escalated dispute" that ended in a deadly shooting earlier this
week. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office identified the woman killed as Tamanika
Woods. Atlanta police said 19-year-old T'Niya Evans was arrested and is facing charges that
include murder in connection with the shooting. [Video clip]
The
allegations against Fulton County's prosecutor. [Scroll down] Separate
from the vendetta against Trump, if the charges are true, it smells horrible that Willis illegally
appointed her boyfriend to a position that saw him receiving $625,000 from Fulton County
taxpayers. Let's not stop there, though. As the old Ginsu knife commercials used to
say... but wait! There's more. We can add a whole new level of stench to the smell
coming out of Fulton County. The same filing includes copies of the invoices from Nathan J.
Wade explaining why the Fulton County taxpayers owed him $654,000 dollars. In the bills,
aside from the usual lawyer stuff (team meetings, telephone calls, meeting with the DA, research,
writing, etc.), there are two that really stand out: [#1] May 23, 2022: "Travel to
Athens; Conf with White House Counsel." Willis charged eight hours for that day, at $250 per hour,
for a total of $2,000. It's unclear how much time was allocated to travel and how much to the
meeting. [#2] November 21, 2022: "Interview with DC/White House." Once again, this was
an eight-hour day at $250 per hour, the only difference being that it's clear that Wade's entire
eight hours was spent in conference with the White House counsel. That's a lot of time to
spend in conference. [...] I don't know if it's illegal for the White House to have worked with a
state prosecutor in this way, but it's certainly problematic, especially when the target is almost
certainly going to be the opposition candidate in the next election.
Fani
Willis Accused of Giving Lawyer Lover $654K Contract in Bombshell Legal Filing.
Michael Roman, one of the 18 co-defendants in the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) case[,] which is centered on and includes
former President Donald J. Trump[,] filed an explosive motion today [1/8/2024.] In it, he
claimed the indictment she secured against him on August 14 was unconstitutional because the
lawyer she subcontracted to investigate RICO charges, Nathan Wade, is her lover. Roman
requests the court dismiss his indictment and disqualify Willis from the case.
Georgia
Court Filing Alleges DA Fani Willis Appointed and Paid Her Lover, Nathan Wade, $654,000 to
Prosecute Donald Trump. In a court filing today [1/8/2024], one of the co-defendants
in the Fulton County election case against President Trump is presenting very specific details of
an intimate relationship between District Attorney Fani Willis and the Special Prosecutor she
hired, Nathan Wade. At first review, if the allegations are true, DA Willis had a financial
motivation to initiate the case against Trump, as her boyfriend was the primary financial
beneficiary. The filing documents how Fani Willis and Nathan Wade took several extravagant
vacations and indulged in an exclusive lifestyle as the result of payments Willis's office made to
Wade. If investigated as accurate, this could be very legally problematic for the Fulton
County District Attorney and her case against President Trump. The conflict of interest is
very bright under this spotlight.
Dem
attorney and former Atlanta police officer convicted in $7 million Covid relief fraud
case. Shelitha Robertson, an attorney and former Atlanta police officer who once ran
for office as a Democrat to become a superior court judge, was found guilty by a federal jury in
Georgia on Tuesday of fraudulently obtaining over $7 million in Paycheck Protection Program
loans. According to prosecutors, Robertson used the money to buy a Rolls-Royce, a motorcycle,
and even a $148,000 10-carat diamond ring, among other things. Robertson received PPP loans
for her multiple companies even though only one was operational at the time, according to the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Woman
Stabs Three Including One Cop At Atlanta Internation Airport. Police say three
people, including an Atlanta police officer, were stabbed at Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson
International Airport Wednesday night. According to Atlanta police, an Atlanta police officer
and two other people were stabbed at the south terminal of Hartsfield-Jackson International
Airport. The source said the suspect is in custody and there is no [further] threat to the
public. [Video clip]
Police
Respond To Shooting In Atlanta, Locals Threaten And Force White Cop To Leave. Oh yes,
there is racism in America but it's not from the side the mainstream media and Democrats want you
to believe. This shooting outside an Atlanta gas station is a great illustration on how
racism towards white from the black community is accepted practice. Just watch as the black
female cop tells the white cop to leave instead of defending him. One must wonder if the
black residents in this video even know that black cops, who make up the minority, shoot more black
suspects than white cops do. [Video clip]
Christian
volunteer says homelessness is out of control in Atlanta. A Christian woman who
volunteers to feed the homeless says that the number of people who live on the streets of Atlanta
has grown exponentially, with entire families, gang members, and prostitutes all seeking
assistance. The woman, named Teresa Hamilton, who goes by the nickname Lady T, has
volunteered to feed the homeless in Georgia for over 27 years, but in 2023 she says the situation
is worse than ever. Previously, people seeking free meals were mostly limited to those with
substance abuse problems, but the volunteer said the demographic has widely grown. "The
numbers are growing. It is a different flavor of homeless people now. Back in the day,
it was just some alcoholics or somebody on drugs; now we have whole families living in parks," she
told Fox 5 Atlanta.
11
people hospitalized after Delta flight to Atlanta hits extreme turbulence. Eleven
people were rushed to the hospital Tuesday after their Delta flight hit intense turbulence as it
neared Atlanta, according to officials. Delta Air Lines Flight 175 from Milan, Italy, to
Atlanta "experienced severe turbulence" before landing safely at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport, Delta said in a statement. The eleven injured passengers and crew
members were taken to a hospital and are expected to make a full recovery, a Delta spokesperson said.
Shoplifter
suspect gets busted after returning to the same Target to steal another TV. A man,
who once got away with stealing a TV from Target, went back to the same store on Wednesday, leading
to his arrest, the Atlanta Police Department says. The incident happened at a Target store on
Caroline Street NE after a Target security guard told police that "a suspect had stolen one
television from the store and returned moments later to take another." The video released by
APD shows the moment of a confrontation between the man and a police officer. The alleged
shoplifter tried to run away before a police officer took him down. [Video clip]
Shooting
in Atlanta area leaves 4 dead. A shooting in the Atlanta, Georgia, area on Saturday
has left four people dead, according to reports. Henry County government spokesperson Melissa
Robinson confirmed to The Associated Press that at least four people are deceased.
Authorities are still searching for the shooter as of now. Andre Longmore, a 40-year-old from
Hampton, Georgia, has been named as the suspect, and he is believed to be armed and dangerous,
Hampton Police Chief James Turner said during a news conference.
Atlanta
Police Struggle With Dude Who Stole a Tractor in Front of a Waffle House. A viral
TikTok video shows Hapeville police struggle to stop a tractor in the parking lot of a metro
Atlanta Waffle House. It happened Thursday afternoon [7/13/2023]. An officer with the
Hapeville Police Department spotted the green John Deere tractor going about 20 miles per hour down
Virginia Avenue. According to investigators, it was reported stolen that morning out of
College Park. [Video clip]
Democrat
Georgia Mayor Makes Lame Excuse After Being Arrested on Burglary and Trespassing Charges.
Fox 5 News Atlanta reported that Khalid Kamau, the socialist mayor of South Fulton, Georgia, was
arrested Saturday morning after entering unlawfully entering a house and refused to accept
responsibility. He was charged with criminal trespass and burglary in the first degree.
One could say he was leading by example considering his dangerous leftist policies encourage this
sort of behavior. Kamau was booked into the Fulton County Jail and was released at 8 P.M.
Saturday night after posting an $11,000 bond.
$118K
water bill has name of woman who died in 2007 on it; water company wants new owner to pay
it. An Atlanta homeowner says he received a six-figure water bill, but the person
whose name is on the bill died more than 15 years ago. That's not stopping Atlanta Watershed
from trying to collect the $118,000 from an Atlanta man. Steve Chaudoin purchased a home on
Venetian Way in a rapidly gentrifying section of southwest Atlanta as an investment property.
There's not even water coming out of the spigots in the home, but it still incurs a huge monthly
water bill.
In
Defense of Donald Trump. Fulton County District Attorney, Fani Willis has some
formidable hurdles to clear in her quest to convict Donald Trump for interfering in Georgia's 2020
election. [...] Trump's "big lie" is fundamental to her case. To support her premise, she may
cite the dozens of judges who have tossed the Trump legal team's lawsuits from their courts, seeing
no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. She is not so likely to draw the court's attention
to the fact that millions of Americans, who are not judges, have seen a plethora of evidence that
amounts to nothing short of a calculated coup d'état, coordinated across several
states. Such evidence ranges from expert analysis to published graphs showing impossible
spikes in Biden votes in three battleground states: Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia. These
fantastic vote spikes were logged in the wee hours of election night when, according to reports, no
observers were present, as would be required by law. As J.R. Dunn has stated, "The
prosecution is going to have a very hard time stating a case without allowing in evidence that they
desperately don't want anyone to hear."
Atlanta
Airport goes full dystopian, using digital facial recognition IDs. World Economic
Forum founder and executive director Klaus Schwab heaped praise on the Chinese Communist Party this
week for adopting "new COVID control measures" while boosting "social dynamism" at the WEF's Annual
Meeting of the New Champions. We will break down in this article what Schwab means by "social
dynamism." This is important, why? Because Schwab, a globalist, futurist a
transhumanist, holds immense sway over many of our Western politicians in Canada, the U.S.,
Australia, etc., at both the state and federal levels. Heads of state and governors of all
political stripes, from Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan to Republican
Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, flock to his meetings in Davos each year. Kemp told the
corporate media he was going to Davos in January 2023 to "sell Georgia." He no sooner returned
and we found out that Georgia became one of the first handful of states to launch a new drivers'
license with biometric digital identities using facial recognition software. This means a QR
Code containing personal biometric data, recognizable instantly when your facial features get
scanned at ports of call worldwide, will be assigned to every citizen who signs up for this new
digital ID.
The
Truth About Atlanta's 'Cop City'. The Atlanta City Council recently approved funding
for the city's new police training facility. This is a win for the city, communities across
the metro Atlanta area, and our law enforcement officers and first responders. Unfortunately,
a small but vocal band of radicals — namely the Defend the Atlanta Forest
group — have hijacked the narrative. They oppose the facility, hate the police,
and have repeatedly used destruction to make their point. And when state law enforcement
arrested individuals who allegedly helped fund the violence, both Georgia's senators and the Biden
administration put political allies before the rule of law. It makes me sick. It's
vital that law enforcement officers and first responders have the best resources and training to do their
jobs, and it's vital they have support from our elected leaders. I know from first-hand experience.
This
Was Atlanta Saturday Night. This was the illegal street takeover and drunken madness
on Edgewood in Atlanta on Saturday night. [Video clip]
Has
Atlanta Seen the Light? Atlanta suffered under the woke leadership of former mayor
Keisha Lance Bottoms, but current mayor Andre Dickens has tried to get a handle on crime (despite
throwing a few bones to the gun control crowd after a recent shooting in the heart of the city).
For months, I've been reporting on the controversy surrounding the proposed law enforcement training
center that the City of Atlanta has been building. I won't rehash everything [...] but domestic
terrorists linked to Antifa and groups that former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams
endorsed have wreaked havoc on the city. It's worth noting that the vast majority of them hail
from outside Georgia, and they're mostly young adults from privileged backgrounds. Ostensibly,
the protesters claimed that their opposition to the training center was on environmental grounds —
they claimed to be "defending the forest" — even though the site actually served as a
prison farm for decades.
Welcome
to the World of Minority Contracting. For the past few years, Atlanta has been roiled
by corruption scandals centering on the city's decades-old program to favor minority-owned
businesses in government contracting. The troubles started when Elvin
"E. R." Mitchell, Jr., a black contractor, began paying what became more than
$1 million in bribes to city official and friend of the mayor Reverend Mitzi Bickers.
Mitchell and his associates wanted to ensure that they could keep winning city-favored contracts
and subcontracts for minorities, despite submitting bids higher than their competitors'.
Mitchell also helped Bickers bribe officials in Jackson, Mississippi, so that she could secure
minority-favored contracts on some of that city's projects. Meantime, Larry Scott, head of
Atlanta's Office of Contract Compliance, which ensures that minority firms win contracts, started a
side gig to help such businesses get favorable deals with the city — receiving over
$220,000 in unreported income and partnering with the mayor's brother and sister-in-law in the
scheme. Mitchell, Bickers, Scott, and several other city officials have been sentenced on
federal charges ranging from bribery to wire fraud.
Chick-fil-A
sparks anti-woke outrage for VP of diversity, equity, inclusion post. Chick-fil-A,
the chicken sandwich chain long beloved by conservatives for its longstanding opposition to
same-sex marriage, is now sparking boycott calls after announcing that it has hired an executive in
charge of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Atlanta-based company announced on Tuesday
that it was naming Erick McReynolds to the post of vice president of DEI — igniting
angry denunciations on Twitter from conservatives who allege that the firm has "gone woke."
McReynolds has been employed by Chick-fil-A since 2007. He was promoted to the position of vice
president of DEI in November 2021, according to his LinkedIn page. But the recent LGBTQ
controversies involving brands such as Bud Light, Target, and Kohl's have triggered scrutiny of
other corporate actors.
Lululemon
Employees Fired for Calling 911 on Looters Robbing the Store. Rachel Rogers was
employed as a sales associate at the Lululemon store in Peachtree Corners, Ga., for five
years. But after the same group of looters attacked the store for the fourth or fifth time,
making off with thousands of dollars in merchandise, she called 911. Assistant Manager Jennifer
Ferguson described the scene. "All of a sudden we see some gentlemen run into the store in masks
and hoodies," Ferguson said, "They swiped until they couldn't hold any more product and ran out the
door." But a week later, Rogers was fired. She had apparently run afoul of a company
policy that had a "zero tolerance" for calling 911. Certainly one can understand a company
directing employees not to interfere in a looting incident. But Rogers was fired for
disobeying a company policy that prevented her from calling the police to the scene. As it
was, the same group of thieves hit another Lululemon store in the area the next day and were
caught. The "no 911 call" policy was initiated to protect the company, said Ferguson.
The Editor says...
They should put up a big sign about their "'no 911 call' policy" on the front door, next to
the "Gun-Free Zone" sign, and watch what happens.
Drunk
Pregnant Woman Beats Down Airline Manager At Atlanta Airport Over Not Allowed To Fly For Being
Aggressive. A six-months pregnant passenger attacked a Spirit Airlines employee after
she was told she could not board the flight after threatening a gate agent. Video footage
shows Que Maria Scott, 29, tackling Jasmine Rhoden at a gate at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport, Georgia on April 30. After a brief struggle, fellow passengers were
able to pull Scott, who is originally from Philadelphia, off Rhoden. [Video clip]
Mom
of Atlanta hospital gunman 'blames messed-up VA prescription for shooting that killed one
woman. Atlanta police are believed to be closing in on a gunman who opened fire
inside a hospital, killing one woman and injuring four others before hijacking a car and
fleeing. Deion Patterson, 24, who served in the Coast Guard for five years, was attending an
appointment to get anxiety medicine with his mother on Wednesday morning. [...] Raphael Warnock, a
senator for Georgia and pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, spoke on at the Capitol on Wednesday
and condemned the easy access to guns.
Deion
Patterson — Shooter and Killer at Atlanta Northside Hospital — Now Media Will
Drop Story. Deion Patterson is the left wing radical extremist who [shot] up gun free zone
Northside hospital in Atlanta, killing at least one person. Now that Deion Patterson can't be
portrayed as some "MAGA extremist", the media will drop the story like a hot potato. The
shooting is most likely fueled by left wing rage against [...] white people.
Atlanta
Police Capture Suspect In Medical Facility Shooting. The Atlanta Police Department
has announced that after an eight-hour manhunt, 24-year-old Deion Patterson, the gunman responsible
for killing one and injuring four in a midtown Atlanta hospital, was taken into custody.
Patterson was reportedly apprehended in a condominium complex near Truist Park, 11 miles from
the scene, on Wednesday evening. Atlanta police announced that his getaway vehicle was
recovered in a parking garage nearby. On Wednesday morning, Patterson shot five women,
between the ages of 25 to 71, in the Northside Hospital Medical Center waiting room. [...] After
the shooting, Patterson fled in a vehicle that he carjacked.
Massive
Mob Goes Wilding At RaceTrac Gas Station In Atlanta. One Atlanta man is speaking out
after a viral video with nearly four million views on Twitter shows his car getting repeatedly
stomped on, cracking his windshield, denting his roof and even stalling his car. It all
happened during the crowd chaos on John Wesley Dobbs Avenue near Georgia State's campus on April 2
when street racing, doing donuts, and property was damaged outside of an off-campus student housing
complex. One person was also shot at a RaceTrac gas station the following night. [Video clip]
What
Is Going On In Atlanta? Scenes like this seem to be the norm in Atlanta, especially
around Georgia State University. [Video clip]
Fulton
County, Georgia, is also contemplating lawfare to derail Trump's presidential run.
Fulton County, of course, is one of the counties in which vote counting stopped for six hours in
the middle of the night after the election. Going into that six-hour pause, Trump was in the
lead. Coming out of it, Biden was in the lead. There were other significant
irregularities in Fulton County, all of which the political establishment protected from any
investigation. And of course, that's all Trump was asking for: An investigation. Anyone
with more than a handful of active brain cells understands that there wasn't some devious plot to
undermine elections in Georgia. Instead, it was a request for an investigation, something
that the Georgia political system wanted to block at all costs. What we're witnessing here,
two and a half years after the election, is not the rule of law playing out. Instead, we're
seeing a determined effort to use the legal system to prevent a strong opponent of the Democrat
party from running for office.
Atlanta
Domestic Terrorism Update: Citizens Speak Out, Court Dates, and More on the SPLC Lawyer
Involved. Two days after dozens of domestic terrorists marched on the construction
site of a public safety training facility that the city of Atlanta is building, new wrinkles are
emerging, and we're learning more about the goons who damaged the property in the name of a
far-left political agenda. On Monday night, citizens on both sides of the issue spoke out at
a meeting at Atlanta City Hall. Opponents of the training center brought 8,000 signatures on
a petition urging the project to stop. Opponents were particularly passionate and vocal, as
Fox 5 reported. "We are opening our mouths and crying with a loud voice to say we don't want
'Cop City,'" said Rev. Keyana Jones. "I live in East Atlanta. I don't want 'Cop City.'"
"This will not blow over," said another opponent of the project. "The current plan will heighten
tensions and harm communities for decades."
Anarchy hits "Cop City".
Approximately 35 people have been detained after "Stop Cop City" protestors allegedly set fire to a
construction site of Atlanta Public Safety Training Facility, nicknamed "Cop City" by anti-police
and environmental activists. The Atlanta Public Safety Training Facility is located in South
River and neighbors a Black neighborhood, a site which activists believe will further escalate
police militarization. [Tweet] According to the Atlanta Police Department, a group of
"agitators" left South River Music Festival around 5:30 p.m. and went to the construction site "to
conduct a coordinated attack on construction equipment and police officers." Authorities
stated that the group changed into black clothing and began to throw commercial-grade fireworks,
Molotov cocktails, large rocks and bricks at police officers.
SPLC
Staff Attorney charged with domestic terrorism. Police say Antifa organized a musical
concert as cover to launch a premeditated terrorist attack on the construction site for the new
Atlanta police training center. The perps caused hundreds of thousands in damage using
firebombs to set buildings and construction equipment on fire. Twenty-six people were
arrested and charged with domestic terrorism. Almost all were from out of state. Two
are from foreign countries, including Canada and France. Among the alleged terrorists is SPLC
Staff Attorney Thomas Webb Jurgens. The SPLC has a long history of promoting, defending,
collaborating with, and even hiring members of Antifa. The woman in charge of the SPLC's
"Hatewatch," Hannah Gais, has even publicly glorified criminal violence against her political
enemies. Recently, twenty state AGs denounced the SPLC as "utterly discredited" in an open
letter to the FBI director. An Antifa gunman shot a police officer at the same location
earlier this year. [Video clip]
SPLC
Lawyer among the Dozens Arrested for Attacking Cops at Atlanta Training Facility.
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) staff attorney Thomas Jurgens was among the dozen of rioters
arrested following a violent attack on police at the proposed site of the Atlanta Police
Foundation's training facility, located a few miles south of the city. Jurgens previously
served as a legal intern in Dekalb County's public defender office and as an assistant public
defender for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, according to his LinkedIn profile. A
family member of Jurgens confirmed with a local journalist that the lawyer had been charged with
domestic terrorism following the violence. A list of the arrested suspects published by the
Atlanta Police Department (APD) on Monday revealed only two were from Georgia. The vast
majority hailed from other states. Two of the rioters came from other countries.
Atlanta
Police Arrest 23 Domestic Terrorists After Sunday Night's Attack on 'Cop City'. On
Sunday night, a group of over 100 domestic terrorists marched on the site of a public safety
training center for the city of Atlanta that is under construction and firebombed portions of the
site, including construction equipment and a police vehicle. The thugs began their "protest"
as a march and what they called a "music festival" on the site, but it quickly turned violent.
"Sunday night, attendees said a group branched off of the concert for a protest nearby around 5 p.m.,"
reports WSB Radio. "APD [Atlanta Police Department] said 100-plus protestors changed into black
clothing and entered the construction area and began to throw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails,
and fireworks at police officers."
Site
of Future Safety Training Center in Atlanta Under Lockdown After Massive Fire Destroys Construction
Site. In December 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported on five Antifa members who were
arrested and held on terrorism charges after protesting outside of a $90 Million police training
center near Atlanta, Georgia. During the arrests, police recovered bombs, flares, gasoline,
and weapons. Additionally, the protesters torched at least two vehicles during their protests
at the training center site. Protests have been ongoing since June 2021 when the training
center was announced with opponents camping out in surrounding trees. Protesters have dubbed
the center "Cop City." In January, TGP reported that a far-left protestor from Stop Cop City
ATL, was killed and a Georgia State Patrol trooper was wounded during a confrontation near the
facility. Sunday evening [3/5/2023], smoke and flames erupted in the area and the site was
put on lockdown. [Tweet]
Judge
Overseeing Trump Georgia Grand Jury Weighs in on Crazy Forewoman's Media Tour. The
judge overseeing the Georgia special grand jury weighed in on the crazy forewoman who went on a
media tour last week. To be clear, the Georgia special grand jury cannot bring any
indictments, they can only recommend indictments and District Attorney Fanni Willis would then have
to pursue the case. Fulton County judge Robert C. McBurney recently ordered parts
of the grand jury report in the garbage Trump 2020 election investigation to be released as the
prosecutor considers charges against Trump and his allies. The grand jury concluded that "one
or more witnesses" lied under oath and recommended perjury indictments.
Why
the 2020 Election was Unverifiable. Joe Biden acquired his job through a legal process. However, he
did not earn enough verifiable votes to justify the certifications in six key swing states. This issue is
addressed in my new book, but here is some of my reasoning. I have limited myself to one example of unverifiable
votes for each of those swing states. [...] Garland Favorito is the head of VoterGA.org, and has a forty-year background
in information technology. In a detailed press conference, Favorito and his cyber experts itemized fifteen
categories of ballot irregularities found during their analysis of ballot images acquired from Fulton County,
Georgia. The number of unsupportable ballots found for this one county is forty-five times larger than
Biden's margin of victory for the entire state. Here are just five of the 15 findings:
[#1] Although it takes one second to scan a ballot, there are over 4,000 ballots with precisely the same
timestamp — to the second. Not possible.
[#2] 16,034 mail-in ballot authentication (sha) files were added several days after scanning. Also impossible.
[#3] There are no ballot images to support 17,724 final certified recount presidential votes.
[#4] There are no images to support 374,128 "certified" in-person votes, which is a violation of
both federal and Georgia law.
[#5] 132,284 mail-in ballot images have no authentication files.
Stacey
Abrams Charity Has a $500,000 Problem In Its Latest Tax Filing. Over half a million dollars is missing
from the New Georgia Project, a discrepancy which experts say is grounds for state and federal investigations into the
Stacey Abrams-founded group and the woman Abrams tapped to run it. The New Georgia Project filed its 2021 Form 990
financial disclosure in January, two months after the form was due to the IRS, and three months after the charity's
board chairman fired CEO Nse Ufot, Abrams's hand-picked leader for the group. In the disclosure, the New Georgia
Project reports a $533,846 consulting payment and a $67,500 grant to the Black Male Initiative, an obscure charity run
in part by Ufot's brother, Edima, a former New Georgia Project employee.
Georgia
Grand Jury's Report Is Garbage Because Fulton County D.A. Fed Them Garbage To 'Get Trump'. "Grand jury
says Trump's election team committed perjury." Without searching for the legacy media's coverage of today's
release of a handful of pages from the report compiled by the Fulton County, Ga. Special Purpose Grand Jury, I
tapped out that mock headline. Sure enough, the corporate press remains predictable. "Georgia grand jury:
'Perjury may have been committed' in Trump election probe," The Washington Post headed its coverage. "Georgia
Grand Jury in Trump Inquiry Sees Signs of Perjury By Witnesses," The New York Times echoed. USA Today
similarly headlined its reporting, "Georgia Grand Jury Recommends Perjury Charges for Unnamed Witnesses in Trump
Investigation." But color me skeptical that any perjury occurred — because of what the Special Purpose
Grand Jury said on page two of its report and because of what the partisan Fulton County D.A., Democrat Fani Willis,
said in various court filings related to her "investigation."
High
schooler breaks teacher's leg during attack in Rockdale County classroom. A Rockdale County high school
student will face criminal charges after attacking her teacher inside a classroom. Channel 2's Tyisha
Fernandes was at Heritage High School on Friday where a ninth grader was caught on camera getting into an argument with
her teacher and attacking her. Channel 2 has learned that the teacher, who has not been identified, is
recovering from a broken leg.
Georgia
Governor Kemp declares state of emergency in response to Antifa protest at public safety facility in
Atlanta. The governor of Georgia on Thursday issued a state of emergency order over continued protests in
connection to a proposed Atlanta police training facility. The order from Governor Brian Kemp will last 15
days and includes the mobilization of 1,000 Georgia National Guards troops. This comes a week after 26-year-old
Manuel Teran, a protestor, allegedly shot a state trooper before gunfire was returned and he was killed. The
trooper is expected to survive.
CNN
Claims Atlanta Riots Weren't 'Violent' As City Burns. A CNN guest suggested that the Atlanta riots,
pursued by Antifa, in which protestors set cars on fire, smashed windows, and shot fireworks at buildings, were
everything but "violent." David Peisner told CNN's Pamela Brown that the only acts of violence he saw were when
police officers were apprehending rioters as they set the city on fire. "You keep using these words 'violent,
violent, violent, violent'... The only acts of violence against people that I saw were police tackling protesters,"
Peisner said. The liberal guest went on to add that destruction of physical property is not the same as violence
against humans, so therefore it is acceptable.
Media
Claims 'Largely Peaceful Protest' in Atlanta, Mayor Quickly Demolishes That. Saturday night brought
rioting by Antifa people attacking police targets in Atlanta. Now, the night started with a protest against the
police, in the memory of one of their comrades, Manuel Teran. Teran had been shot and killed by the police after
he allegedly shot a cop, when police came to clear protesters out of an area they had been occupying where the city is
constructing a police training center. The radicals have had several people, in multiple incidents, arrested for
domestic terrorism at the site, including for throwing Molotov cocktails at the police.
Leftists
Riot in Atlanta, Light Police Car on Fire, Break Windows. Far-left protesters rioted in downtown Atlanta
on Saturday evening, lighting a police car on fire and breaking business windows. The protest reportedly began as
a "mostly peaceful" demonstration in response to the death of 26-year-old activist Manuel Teran, who was killed during a
police sweep on Wedneday "in what the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said was an exchange of gunfire with police that
wounded a state trooper," according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC). The trooper remains unidentified
and is reportedly in stable condition after being taken to a hospital for surgery. Prior to the rioting,
protesters chanted, "No justice, no peace, no killer police" and "Stop cop city," which refers to the name of the
Atlanta police training site.
Violent
Antifa protesters lay siege on Atlanta, smashing windows and torching cop car. Atlanta erupted on Saturday
night, with police arresting at least six people after a protest over the death of Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, 26, turned
violent. Teran, also known as "Tortuguita," or "little turtle," was killed by police on Wednesday after he
allegedly ignored authorities and shot at state troopers on the grounds of the new Atlanta Public Safety Training
Center, Fox News reports. If an officer-involved shooting wasn't enough to inflame the woke mob, Tortuguita
reportedly identified as nonbinary and used they/it pronouns. It was a perfect storm that handed Antifa the excuse
they crave to riot.
Stacey
Abrams's failure to pay her campaign staff and vendors lays out Democrat hypocrisy. After raising more
than $100 million in her second failed attempt to become governor of Georgia, the Stacey Abrams campaign now owes more
than $1 million in debt to vendors who worked for her campaign. [...] Despite the obsequious press coverage Abrams
consistently received, her two-time campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo claims that a "cavalcade of negative press and
negative polling" made fundraising difficult in the final months. Shockingly, Groh-Wargo revealed the campaign had
engaged brokers to sell their donor and voter contact databases to try to pay down the debt over time. In other
words, information, perhaps even personal information about the individuals who had supported Abrams to the extent that
they donated their hard-earned money to her, could be sold to the highest bidder. This is truly a disgraceful betrayal
and a violation of privacy. But once again no media house will cover this.
Final
Stacey Abrams Campaign Autopsy: Raised $100 Million, Lost, Still in Debt, Stuck It to Staffers. You
almost have to hand it to Stacey Abrams. After losing Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial race to Gov. Brian Kemp, the
determined Democrat was still able to raise nearly 100 million dollars — eight million more than
Kemp — which she blew through like a champ, by the way. And of course, she lost. Again. To Kemp.
According to leftist Axios (which pretends its an unbiased news outlet), after raising all that cash, losing the
election — which she actually conceded, this time, as opposed to her first loss to Kemp in 2018 —
the Abram campaign still owes more than one million dollars to vendors, as confirmed by Abrams's two-time campaign
manager, Lauren Groh-Wargo.
Driver
looking down at tablet hits Delta Airlines worker on Atlanta airport tarmac. Delta employee Camdyn Davis
is still recovering after being hit by a truck Saturday night while directing a plane on the tarmac at
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Video of the accident started surfacing online this week. In it,
you can see Davis being hit from behind. Once the driver realizes what has happened, you see him running towards
her, along with other workers. Atlanta Police said the driver told officers that he was not paying attention to
where he was driving because he was looking down at his tablet. They said Davis was guiding the plane into Gate
C-36 when it happened. Davis' family said she was taken to Grady Hospital with a concussion, fractured skull, neck
and brain damage. [Video clip]
Five
Antifa members are charged with domestic terrorism: Cops swoop on Atlanta autonomous zone and find explosives. Five
members of Antifa are in custody on domestic terrorism charges after they were protesting outside of a planned $90 million police
training center. The site of the planned center has been the focal point of protests for months by Antifa who have referred
to the site — which protesters have made an autonomous zone — as Cop City. Many of those who were arrested were holed up
in treehouses where police later recovered explosives. Prior to Tuesday's arrests, police detained several people at the site
for crimes including destruction of property and arson along with car-jacking and attacks on locals and government officials.
Five
left-wing activists arrested for domestic terrorism in Georgia. Back in May a group of anti-police
protesters in Georgia were arrested after throwing rocks and a Molotov cocktail at police. The "protesters" have
been trying to prevent the city of Atlanta from building a new 85-acre police training center (which the left has dubbed
"cop city") in a large wooded area near the city. The group has blocked roads and harassed construction workers
who came to the site to work. During the May incident, police accompanied the construction workers to ensure their
safety and the protest group started throwing rocks at them. Then this happened: [Video clip] The
protesters have built tree houses in the area in order to claim they are not merely protesters but residents of the property.
A string of crimes in the area has continued and a law enforcement task force was created to deal with it.
Domestic
terrorism charges for five arrested at violent Antifa autonomous zone near Atlanta. Five militants part of
a violent far-left occupation in south Atlanta were arrested on Tuesday and charged with domestic terrorism and other
felony charges. On Dec. 13, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) launched a raid on the so-called autonomous
zone at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Since June 2021, Antifa and other far-left
extremists from across the US have descended on the location to prevent the construction of what they call a "cop city."
Responding law enforcement were assaulted with rocks and bottles by militants occupying makeshift treehouses. The
GBI says it found explosive devices and gasoline after the rioters were cleared from the area.
[White]
Georgia High School Teacher Beaten Bloody By [Black] Student. A student accused of assaulting a teacher in
a classroom attack caught on video will face charges, Georgia school officials said. Discovery High School
Principal Marci Sledge condemned the incident in a letter to parents following the incident Tuesday, Nov. 29, WAGA
reported. The attack occurred just before noon during a class change at the Lawrenceville school. "I want to
reassure you, we are taking this situation very seriously," Sledge wrote, according to The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution. [Video clip]
Teacher
left bloodied in classroom beating, Georgia school says. Student to be charged. A student accused of
assaulting a teacher in a classroom attack caught on video will face charges, Georgia school officials said.
Discovery High School Principal Marci Sledge condemned the incident in a letter to parents following the incident
Tuesday, Nov. 29, WAGA reported. The attack occurred just before noon during a class change at the
Lawrenceville school. [...] The wife of the teacher who was hurt told WSB-TV that her husband met with the student's
parents the day before the incident to discuss his "poor performance in class." She said the attack left him with
a bloody mouth and head injuries.
Meet Raphael Warnock's Paymasters.
Since early voting commenced in the Georgia runoff between Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel
Walker, the corporate media has made much of the former's funding advantage as if this is somehow unusual for an
incumbent seeking reelection. Far more newsworthy are the sources of Warnock's cash. The Federal Election
Commission (FEC) shows that Warnock has received individual contributions totaling $65.2 million, of which 88.8
percent came from out-of-state donors. Indeed, Warnock raised slightly less money from individual Georgians that
did Walker. Peach State residents contributed $7.3 million to Warnock while donating $7.5 million to
Walker. The senator, however, received $57.8 million from contributors who don't live in the state he ostensibly
represents — including $13.4 million from California and $6.9 million from New York.
According to OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan research group that tracks political donations, Warnock is the top Senate
recipient of contributions from outside his own state.
Recording
Shows Warnock Campaign Calling Out-of-State Residents for Votes. The Georgia runoff election is quickly
approaching, with Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock battling it out for the last undecided, US Senate seat of the
cycle. Naturally, that means electioneering is in full swing. Warnock has famously received a metric ton of
out-of-state cash, and now, he's apparently contacting out-of-state voters to vote for him. Yeah, I'm as confused
as you are. Dom Lucre, who is a resident of Tennessee and hasn't lived in Georgia in years, was called by the
Warnock campaign, and he recorded the entire exchange. Here's what it sounded like. [Tweet]
Raphael
Warnock Campaign Covered in Controversy Heading into Runoff Election. Sen. Raphael Warnock's (D-GA)
campaign is covered in controversy stemming from his church's apartment building, his personal life, and his campaign
spending habits, with less than three weeks until his runoff election in Georgia against Republican Herschel
Walker. Although Warnock earns a $7,417 monthly housing allowance from Ebenezer Baptist Church, the low-income
apartment building his church owns is reportedly threatening to evict tenants for as little as $192 in unpaid rent.
Thank
God For These Horrible Democrats. Stacey Abrams is one of those people who makes demands of others up to
the point where they are met, then immediately regrets them because she hadn't thought it through. Her "Georgia's
voter integrity laws are Jim Crow 2.0" battle cry was adopted uniformly by Democrats, including the
President. Major League Baseball, at her urging, pulled their All-Star Game from Atlanta. That cost
Georgians $100 million. Suddenly, but expectedly, Abrams became like a blackjack dealer in Vegas at shift
change — clapping her hands together and showing her palms, backing away from the table like she had nothing
to do with screwing over every single small business owner around the stadium. She did, and they know it.
She never recovered.
Stacey
Abrams: Georgia Sheriffs 'Want to Take Black People Off the Streets'. Stacey Abrams, the Democratic
nominee for governor in Georgia, declared during a debate with Kemp on Sunday night that 107 sheriffs had endorsed her
opponent, incumbent Republican Brian Kemp, because they "want to be able to take black people off the streets." Kemp
unveiled the mass endorsement of his reelection bid in November 2021, arguing at the time that "it has never been more
dangerous to put on a uniform, and we've seen that during this once-in-a-century pandemic, civil unrest and the radical
defund-the-police movement that continues to gain steam in Washington, D.C., and other liberal cities across the
country." "Despite being vilified by many, these men and women get up every day and put the uniform on and serve
and protect us," he added. The governor has characterized calls for defunding the police as "simply an insane
idea." Abrams has denied that she supports defunding law enforcement, but she serves as a leader in multiple
organizations that do.
Stacey
Abrams Floats Abortion as an Inflation Fix: 'Having Children Is Why You're Worried' about Rising Prices.
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor in Georgia, floated abortion as a solution to voters' concerns about
inflation on Wednesday, explaining to Morning Joe viewers that "having children is why you're worried about your price
for gas, it's why you're concerned about how much food costs." Abrams, who lost the 2018 gubernatorial election to
incumbent Republican Brian Kemp, was responding to a question about what she would do to address inflation. [...] "You
can't divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child," countered
Abrams, who argued that "we don't have the luxury of reducing it, or separating them out."
Thugs
From Illegal Takeover In Atlanta Attack Cop Cars When They Show Up To Clear Streets. South Fulton police
are searching for suspects involved in what they call a vicious attack on an officer during a street racing gathering
Saturday night, the same group officials say made their way into Atlanta to continue the illegal performances.
According to a Facebook post by the department, they responded to calls on Saturday night about "individuals unlawfully
performing reckless stunt driving" on Camp Creek Parkway near Campbellton Road. As officers attempted to clear the
road, one of the "suspects" jumped on the hood of a patrol vehicle. SFPD also claims that several people used
objects, such as a speed limit sign with the pole still attached, to damage their patrol vehicle. [Video clip]
Shooting
At Atlanta University Center Caught On Video, 4 People Shot. Four people were hurt, including three
students, in a shooting during Clark Atlanta University's homecoming outside a campus library early Sunday, authorities
said. A large group of people was listening to a DJ near Atlanta University Center's Robert W. Woodruff
Library around 12:30 a.m. when officers on patrol in the area heard gunshots, Atlanta police said. [Video clip]
Where
is all of Stacey Abrams' PAC money going? After Stacey Abrams lost her 2018 bid to be the next Governor of
Georgia (not that she admitted the loss until recently), she founded a political action committee named Fair Fight PAC
that was intended to "combat voter suppression" in the Peach State, which she blamed for her loss or unacknowledged
victory, depending on which day you asked her. Fair Fight PAC has since raked in a considerable flow of cash from
liberals around the nation who sympathized with her unfair treatment at the hands of the corrupt Republicans in Georgia
or whatever. But where has all of that money been going? A recent investigation by Fox News dug into some of
the PAC's financial disclosure statements and came up with some very curious results.
Brian
Kemp blasts Stacey Abrams's policies as poison for Georgians. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp isn't pulling
any punches when it comes to Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams, telling voters in south Georgia that her policies would
be poison for small businesses across the state. Kemp claimed Abrams would defund the police, get rid of cash
bail, and put her political aspirations ahead of what is best for Georgians. "People know what my record is now, and
they also know what Stacey Abrams's record is," Kemp told the Washington Examiner.
Georgia
Officials Are Probing Raphael Warnock's Church. Georgia is investigating a charity run by the church where
Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock is a pastor due to concerns about its legal status, according to The
Washington Free Beacon. The Ebenezer Building Foundation is soliciting charitable contributions and operating as a
charitable organization but isn't registered as one in the state of Georgia, according to a letter from the Securities
and Charities Division Georgia Secretary of State office. The letter urged the organization to register by Nov. 2
and noted that it could be subject to administrative penalties. Ebenezer Baptist Church attempted to evict poor
tenants from a building it owns while Warnock publicly railed against evictions in 2020, reports revealed earlier this
week. The building was listed as a home for the mentally disabled and chronically homeless in a grant
application. The revelation triggered an investigation into the nonprofit status of the Ebenezer Building
Foundation, the charity run by Warnock's church.
Is
This the Beginning of the End for George Soros? On September 30, U.S. district judge Steven Jones threw
out the lawsuit filed in 2018 by Stacey Abrams and her political action committee, Fair Fight Georgia. The Epoch
Times reported that the lawsuit alleged election irregularities, and Judge Jones ruled that "although Georgia's election
system is not perfect, the challenged practices violate neither the constitution nor the [Voting Rights Amendment]."
However, Abrams was still able to reinstate 22,000 rejected provisional and absentee ballots after the 2018 election.
This judge was on to something when he said Georgia's election system isn't perfect. Here are just a few of the
inconsistencies from the 2020 election you can find documentation of on the VoterGA website:
• There are six sworn affidavits of counterfeit mail-in ballots in Fulton Co. election results scaling into the tens of thousands.
• All 350,000+ original in-person ballot images in Fulton are missing in violation of federal and state retention law.
• All 393,000+ original ballot images in Cobb are missing in violation of federal and state retention law.
This is also not the only legal action that Abrams has initiated over elections. First, we have the now-infamous
consent decree, which stemmed from a lawsuit filed by Abrams prior to the 2020 election, making it nearly impossible to verify signatures on ballots.
America's
blackest city elected a Democratic Socialist mayor and there are problems. Politico has published a
lengthy story about a suburb of Atlanta called South Fulton. South Fulton has been dubbed the blackest city in the
United States [by its own mayor!] with a population just over 100,000 of which about 9 out of 10 residents are
black. For many years, the area that would eventually become the city of South Fulton was an unincorporated part
of Fulton County. As many other parts of the county decided to incorporate and become cities, South Fulton
initially refused to go along with the trend. [...] But over time nearly all of the rest of Fulton County did
incorporate and South Fulton realized it had better jump on the bandwagon or it would wind up being divided up among the
other newly formed cities. So in 2016 the area voted again and finally became South Fulton. And here's where
things get interesting. Recently the city elected a new Democratic Socialist mayor named khalid kamau (yes, all
lowercase) who has some very distinct ideas about what the blackest city in America should look like.
[The comment in brackets above was added by The Editor.]
What
Will Become of 'America's Blackest City'? [Scroll down] Pronounced kuh-LEED kuh-MAH-oo, the mayor
legally changed his name when he was 18, choosing to use all lowercase letters in the West African Yoruban tradition
that prizes the community over the individual. Whereas the former mayor and most of the council members practice
the incremental, integrationist, typically more moderate politics of Atlanta's Black elite, kamau is much more
radical — a gay, Christian, socialist, self-described "elected activist" and "Black nationalist," a former
film student, flight attendant, bus driver, Black Lives Matter organizer and city council member. As mayor, he has
to this point, and to the constant consternation of his fellow Democratic South Fulton elected officials, stressed his
slogans of "America's Blackest City" and "Black on Purpose." His goal, he has said, is to create here not only a
"laboratory" for progressive policy but "a real-life Wakanda" — the fictional Black African empire that is
the setting for the movies "Black Panther" and the forthcoming "Wakanda Forever."
Brawl
At an Atlanta Walmart Over The Weekend. Walmart really needs to start hiring prison security since the
brawls are getting insane like this incident over the weekend in Atlanta. [Video clip]
Atlanta
Police Arrest Thug Who Shot a 3 Year Old in the Head. Atlanta police have arrested a
man suspected of shooting a 3-year-old boy in the head as he rode in the back of his father's car
earlier this month. Atlanta police said Kentavious Wright, 24, was arrested on Aug. 19 on
charges of criminal attempt to commit murder, criminal street gang participation, aggravated
assault, aggravated battery and cruelty to children. [Video clip]
Raphael
Warnock Voted for COVID Stimulus that Sent $75K to Group Run by His Church.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) voted for a coronavirus stimulus package that handed $75,000 to a
social justice group his church founded. The group, the Martin Luther King Sr.
Collaborative, is run by the church, which compensates Warnock $120,000, according to the
Washington Free Beacon. The money flowing to the Martin Luther King Sr. Collaborative
raises questions about whether Warnock personally benefited from the American Rescue Plan while
taxpayers shouldered the $1.9 trillion price of the bill that likely fueled 40-year-high inflation.
Georgia
Drops Charges Against Police Who Shot Rayshard Brooks: 'Justified'. A specially
appointed prosecutor dropped charges Tuesday, including murder, against Atlanta, Georgia, police
officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan, who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in a June 2020
incident that led to Black Lives Matter riots. Brooks, 27, a black man, had fallen asleep in
his vehicle in a Wendy's drive-thru and was questioned by the officers, who had been called to the
scene. After speaking with the officers, he resisted arrest and stole an officer's Taser,
firing it at them. Rolfe fired at Brooks, who was killed. A mob then arrived and burned
the Wendy's. Democrats, including failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, said
the shooting was "murder."
Woman 'targeted'
victims of triple shooting in Midtown Atlanta, police say. Investigators say the
woman suspected of killing two people and injuring a third, at two separate locations in Midtown on
Monday afternoon, specifically targeted her victims. The shootings essentially locked down
the Midtown neighborhood in the heart of Atlanta for a couple of hours. The name of the woman
arrested or how she is connected to the victims have not yet been released.
No-So-Bright
Man Calls Police On McDonald's Because His Fries Were Cold, Turns Out, He Was On The Run For Murder. A dispute
over cold McDonald's French fries ended with a police chase and the arrest of a murder suspect out on bond who failed to
appear in court. Channel 2's Matt Johnson obtained the hour-long body camera footage of police arresting Antoine Sims
on Aug. 5. Kennesaw police responded to the restaurant at 2049 Cobb Parkway after a customer, who identified himself as
Sims, said he went inside the store after he received cold French fries and never got a receipt.
Judge
DQs prosecutor from one target in Georgia fake-electors probe. Lindsey Graham accused Fulton County DA Fani
Willis of "playing politics" with her subpoena in an investigation of the 2020 election. Yesterday, a judge agreed with
Graham in general about the Democrat DA's bias, if not specifically in regard to the subpoena for Graham. A Fulton
County judge blocked Willis from investigating a leading GOP candidate in an alleged "fake elector" scheme, because Willis
not only endorsed his Democratic rival at the same time she launched the probe but also held a fundraiser for him a few
months later.
Former
Conyers mayoral candidate sentenced to prison for pandemic loan fraud. Olivia Ware used the worldwide COVID-19
crisis as a chance to cash in, obtaining more than $323,000 in federal funds meant to help struggling workers feed their
families and using it to pay off her mortgage and install a swimming pool. When The Atlanta Journal-Constitution began
asking questions two years ago about her Paycheck Protection Program loan, she falsely claimed to be running a major charity
out of her Newton County home that employed dozens of people and was working on the front lines of the pandemic, including
running a domestic violence shelter and training contact tracers. On Thursday [7/21/2022], Ware was sentenced to two
years in federal prison for bank fraud in a scheme that eventually caught the eye of federal investigators after the AJC
published a story in September 2020 questioning the legitimacy of her loan.
Report: Just 14
Percent of Stacey Abrams's Fundraising Haul Came From Georgia Residents. Stacey Abrams has raised almost $50 million
for her gubernatorial campaign in Georgia. Just $7 million (14 percent) of that fundraising haul came from
residents of that state, however, according to an analysis by Washington Free Beacon alum Lachlan Markay. Nearly
half the money raised by Abrams's campaign and leadership committee ($22.7 million) came from donors in three deep-blue
states and one liberal territory that wants to be a state but never will: California ($10.2 million), Washington, D.C.
($6.4 million), New York ($3.6 million), and Delaware ($2.5 million). The result is not entirely surprising
given that Abrams recently described Georgia as "the worst state in the country to live."
Atlanta's
homicides [are] up for [the] 3rd straight year. For the third straight year, homicides are up across
Atlanta. Authorities have investigated 85 cases through mid-July, up from 79 this time last year. The uptick
comes amid a city-wide increase in gun violence that started in the summer of 2020. The trend is not unique to Atlanta,
and city leaders have taken a number steps to combat the deadly surge. "Gun violence is out of control and we're going
to put an end to it here in Atlanta," Mayor Andre Dickens said during a news conference in January after the fatal shooting
of a 6-month-old boy. Months later, Atlanta is on pace to surpass last year's total. Authorities investigated 160
homicide cases in 2021, the most since 1996.
'Too
Much Mayonnaise' Argument Leaves One Dead, Another Injured: Report. A "senseless" fit of rage over too
much mayonnaise on a sandwich ended at a Downtown Atlanta Subway with the customer shooting two employees, killing one and
leaving another victim in critical condition, according to local media. Police said around 6:30 p.m., an unidentified
male came into the restaurant, ordered a sandwich, and took his anger out on the employees for spreading a disproportionate
amount of mayo on the bread. "He decided to escalate the situation and from there," store-owner Willie Glen told Fox 5
Atlanta, "that's when all hell broke loose." "Believe it or not, it was about too much mayonnaise on his sandwich."
Recent
crimes in wealthy Atlanta enclave reignite push for Buckhead cityhood. A recent spate of criminal activity in
one of Atlanta's wealthiest enclaves has rattled residents, fueled frustration over police protection, and given oxygen to a
nearly shuttered campaign seeking secession from Georgia's largest city. In the past two weeks, there have been
multiple shootings and other crimes committed in the tony area of Buckhead. On Friday, a man accused of trespassing at
a luxury apartment building was taken to the hospital after being shot by a maintenance worker following an argument, Atlanta
police spokesman Officer Steve Avery said.
Disturbing
Video Shows Veterans Affairs Employee Brutally Assault Elderly Vietnam Vet. Disturbing video shows the moments
a Veterans Affairs employee pushed an elderly Vietnam veteran into a door and body-slammed him to the ground. Channel 2
Investigative Reporter Justin Gray first reported on the attack in May. Phillip Webb, 73, said he was attacked at the Department
of Veterans Affairs Clinic at Fort McPherson in Atlanta on April 28. Gray had to file a Freedom of Information Act
request and wait more than a month and a half to get the surveillance video, which shows a VA patient advocate viciously hit and
kick Webb. VA employee Lawrence F. Gaillard Jr. was arrested and charged with a brutal beating. [Video clip]
Five
major cities are on track to surpass their 2021 homicide totals. Washington, Baltimore, Atlanta, Los Angeles
and Milwaukee are on track to surpass their already-soaring homicide rates from last year. Last year, the FBI warned
that homicides in the US rose nearly 30 percent from 2020 and overall violent crime rose for the first time in four
years. The stunning trend in homicides has continued this year. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the homicide rate leaped
24.7 percent from the year-to-date compared to the same period last year.
856
Delta flights canceled on Saturday and 5,997 delayed. A disabled veteran on his honeymoon and new mother with a
hungry baby and no formula were among passengers left stranded by canceled Delta flights Saturday. On Saturday, Delta
canceled 219 flights, among the 2,709 called off nationwide, according to Flight Aware, leaving customers with the short-end
of the stick as the airline also delayed 672 flights. Saturday saw a total of 856 flights canceled across the
US, with 5,997 flights within, into or out of the US delayed, according to FlightAware.
Dispute
Over A Woman Leads To Man Shooting 4, Killing One, In Atlanta. Police said a man is dead, and three others were
shot at a popular DeKalb County restaurant late Friday night. DeKalb County police said four men were shot after a
dispute over a woman escalated to gunfire. Police have not identified victims and are pursuing "several promising
leads" to a suspect. DeKalb County police said around 11:21 p.m. officers were called out to Fletcher's Place at The
Gallery at South DeKalb Mall. Officers found four men, all in their 20s and 30s, with gunshot wounds, police said.
Georgia
Sen Warnock Caught In Blatant Lie About His Brother's Imprisonment. Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) is facing
strong headwinds in bid at reelection in November. Georgia, despite the left's most sincere wishes, continues to remain
a red state. Warnock will be facing University of Georgia sports legend Herschel Walker, who won last month's
Republican primary and who remains extremely popular in the state. And polling data indicates that Warnock's party is
likely in for an overall clobbering in the fall, thanks largely to President Biden's utter incompetence and a tanking
economy. Indeed, Warnock is facing an uphill battle. Yet thanks to recent fact checks on claims that the senator
made prior to his narrow 2020 electoral victory that show Warnock lied about the circumstances surrounding his brother's
imprisonment, that uphill climb may have just gotten a lot steeper.
A
pro-Herschel Walker gas giveaway fuels Democratic outrage. A long line of cars formed at a Chevron gas station
south of downtown Atlanta on Saturday [6/4/2022] as word spread that a political action committee was handing out $25
vouchers. Now the pro-Herschel Walker group's giveaway is fueling a different sort of backlash. The initiative by
34N22 was designed to highlight rising gas prices, a top issue for Republicans hoping to capitalize on inflation and economic
uncertainty to unseat U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Atlanta
McDonald's Worker Shoots Manager After She Told Him He Was Working Too Slowly. A McDonald's manager is fighting
for her life after she was shot at work by another employee. Atlanta Police say it happened Friday around 4:15 p.m. at
the McDonald's on the 400 block of Moreland Avenue in southeast Atlanta. They say the shooter got into an argument with
the manager over how slow he was and was asked to leave and after doing so, he returned and confronted the victim outside
with a gun and then shot her before driving off. [Video clip]
Democrats'
Georgia Lies Are Being Laid Bare. The state of Georgia has been in the hot mess political spotlight since its
gubernatorial election in 2018 when the thoroughly execrable Stacey Abrams lost to Brian Kemp. Abrams was then released
into the national political conversation, like poison into a city's water supply. Abrams is a toxic person who can't
open her mouth without lying. She lies about the 2018 election she lost. She lies about Georgia's efforts to
address the glaring irregularities that plagued the state in the 2020 presidential election. She's now added a new
wrinkle to her foul shtick: dumping all over Georgia even though she is once again trying to become its governor.
This is certainly a strange way to run for Governor. Stacey
Abrams says Georgia 'the worst state in the country to live,' despite owning multiple houses there. Democratic
gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams declared Saturday that Georgia is "the worst state in the country to live," despite
owning at least two houses there. "I'm running for governor because I know that we have to have a conversation about
who we are in this state and what we want for each other and from each other," Abrams said during a speech at the Gwinnett
Democrats' Bluetopia Gala in Norcross, according to audio posted by the Gwinnett Daily Post. "I am tired of hearing
about how we're the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live," she said.
Rapper
Young Thug Arrested Under RICO, Part Of Massive Criminal Gang. A popular Atlanta rapper was arrested at a
Buckhead mansion on Monday. Jeffery Lamar Williams, who goes by the stage name Young Thug was charged with
participation in criminal street activity and conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act,
according to jail records. This is not Williams's first run in with the law in Georgia. In Dec. 2016, he was
arrested at Lennox Square on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear. They have all since bonded out.
[Video clip]
MARTA
unveils electric buses for Earth Day. MARTA celebrated Earth Day by unveiling its first electric buses.
The agency unveiled the buses Friday [4/22/2022] at a ceremony at its Edgewood/Candler Park station. It showed off
three electric buses, which will be put into service May 1 on Routes 2 and 102 out of its North Avenue station. In
2019, MARTA received a $2.6 million Federal Transit Administration grant to buy six electric buses and the infrastructure to
charge them. They replace 2005 diesel buses and will reduce MARTA's emissions of greenhouse gases and fine particle
matter, which has been linked to a variety of health issues.
The Editor says...
[#1] Okay, but the electricity to charge the buses has to come from somewhere. [#2] Can an electric bus run around the city
all day (often completely empty) without recharging? [#3] How many hours does it take to recharge a bus?
The
radical rise and cultish fall of the Black Hammers. Last month, Gazi Kodzo, the leader of the extremist sect
the Black Hammer Party, led a small band of followers on a protest march through downtown Atlanta, threatening Mayor Andre
Dickens and the Atlanta Police. He announced that he was armed with "a lot of guns" and had security for anyone who
tried to shut him up. "Kill the police!" Kodzo shouted into a bullhorn as a follower with a cell phone camera beamed
the march to the group's YouTube channel. "To get free, you've got to kill the pigs." The Atlanta-based Black
Hammer Party represents a new brand of radicalism on Georgia's political fringes. Its formula has attracted hundreds of
followers across the country as the group experienced a meteoric rise the past two years with chapters forming from New York
to Los Angeles.
Democrat
Raphael Warnock Seeks to Seal Court Records That Could Blow Georgia Race Wide Open. For all the talk about
Herschel Walker's contentious past involving actions over a decade ago, a time period he admits he had problems and got help
for, there's been essentially no discussion of the far more recent allegations involving Democrat Raphael Warnock. As
you may recall during the 2020 election cycle, Warnock was accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife. Now, the two are
embroiled in a custody battle and the Georgia senator is asking the court to seal the records so that Walker can't use the
revelations to "gain some political advantage."
Warnock
Asks Court To Seal Child Custody Proceedings, Citing Reelection Bid. Democratic senator Raphael Warnock asked a
Georgia judge on Tuesday to seal his contentious child custody dispute from the public, arguing that because he is "currently
running for reelection" his opponent could use the case to "gain some political advantage," according to a court motion
obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Warnock made the request in a joint motion with his ex-wife, Oulèye
Ndoye, following renewed media attention on their divorce. Warnock and Ndoye said in the filing that there is an
"overriding interest that is likely to prejudice the parties and their minor children if hearings relating to modification of
custody is not closed." The motion says Warnock is a "public figure serving in a political office" and "is currently running
for reelection for said political office."
How
Raphael Warnock Used Millions in Fed Cash to Dismantle an Atlanta Jail. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.)
steered $4 million in federal funds to convert part of Atlanta's city jail into a "diversion center" run by a George
Soros-backed nonprofit that seeks to "transition away" from the criminal justice system. The center, which received
city council approval in February, will provide police with an "alternative" to incarcerating suspects who are "experiencing
poverty, homelessness, substance abuse, or mental health issues," according to Atlanta lawmakers. Instead, the city
will encourage police to drop off eligible offenders at the diversion center, which will offer noncompulsory services such as
beds, showers, and mental health screenings, according to city officials.
Whites need not apply. New
pop-up storefronts for Black-owned businesses are opening on the Beltline. A new pilot program will offer
pop-up storefront space for local, Black-owned businesses in refurbished shipping containers along the Atlanta Beltline,
officials announced Friday [4/1/2022]. The "BeltLine MarketPlace" will feature up to six businesses given commercial
space at affordable rates in two locations along the Westside and Eastside trails, according to an announcement from the
Beltline and The Village Market, an organization that promotes Black businesses and is partnering with the agency on the
program. The vendors, which could include retail, food or art, will be located in "architecturally-designed, artistic
shipping containers" or food trucks.
Southwest
Airlines Employee Gets Assaulted by an Unruly Passenger in Atlanta. A man from Henderson, Nevada, has been
arrested for attacking an employee at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. According to the Atlanta Police
Department, police officers responded to the airport around 8:19 p.m. March 22. Upon arrival, they met with a Southwest
Airlines employee who said he was assaulted by a passenger who had been escorted off of a flight. [Video clip]
Atlanta
police arrest career criminal accused of attacking woman at Home Depot. Police have arrested a man accused of
robbing a woman at knifepoint in a Home Depot parking lot in northeast Atlanta last month. Steve Jerome White, 64, was
charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and possession of a knife during the commission of a
felony in connection with the violent Feb. 24 encounter, police said in a news release Thursday [3/17/2022]. According to
investigators, White slipped into a 59-year-old woman's SUV as she loaded items into her vehicle after shopping at the Home
Depot at the Lindbergh Plaza shopping mall at 2525 Piedmont Road. Police reports indicate he sat beside her in the
passenger's seat and stuck a knife to her throat, threatening to kill her during an ordeal that lasted several minutes.
Homicides, rapes in Atlanta
soar despite other decreasing violent crime. Atlanta is grappling with violent crime trends that have continued
from 2021 into the new year, and local officials are working to come up with new solutions. The southern city saw a
30-year record in homicides last year, when it had 158 murders compared to 157 in 2020 and 99 in 2019. So far in 2022,
homicides are up 43% compared to the same time period in 2021, with 20 total homicides reported this year compared to 14 at
the same time last year. Rapes are up an astounding 236%, with 37 reported so far this year compared to 11 at the same
time in 2021. Other violent crime, such as aggravated assault, is down year-over-year.
Atlanta
Police working to identify individuals caught ransacking store, stealing $25,000 worth of merchandise. Atlanta
Police said they are asking for the public's help in identifying people caught on video stealing thousands of dollars worth
of clothing. At least six individuals triggered a business alarm at 1874 Piedmont Ave. NE last Tuesday, according
to the Atlanta Police Department. Officers arrived at Toussant Namdi and spoke with management who said several males
snatched clothes off the racks and mannequins before taking off, a news release reads. APD's Larceny Unit said the
group likely got away with $25,000 worth of merchandise. [Video clip]
Rape
in Atlanta soared by 236% and murder by 43% in the past 12 months. Homicides in Atlanta are on track to beat
last year's 30-year high of 158 murders while rapes are up 236% after a soft-on-crime mayor and pandemic lockdowns sent crime
in the city spiraling. Atlanta Police Department statistics revealed on Friday, that homicides are up 43 percent for
2022 compared to the same period, from January 1 to February 12, in 2021. In total, there were 20 homicides so far in
2022 compared to 14 last year. Rapes are also up an astounding 236 percent, with 37 reported so far this year, compared
to 11 at the same time in 2021.
Georgia
leaders: Cityhood push dead for Atlanta's Buckhead. Top Georgia lawmakers have signaled that proposals to
allow the wealthy, predominately white Buckhead neighborhood to secede from Atlanta are dead, at least for this year.
Republican House Speaker David Ralston of Blue Ridge told reporters on Friday that while he still believes crime in Atlanta
needs to be addressed, he intends to give new Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens at least a year to demonstrate that he can make
progress on the issue across the city.
Atlanta's
foreign-born Black population soars, new study shows. Immigrants are rapidly diversifying the Black population
in the U.S. — and in Georgia. Around 10% of all Black people living in the U.S. were born abroad, up from 3%
in 1980, according to a Pew Research Center report released Thursday. The foreign-born Black population, currently
estimated at roughly 4.6 million, is projected to double in size by 2060. Many Black immigrants call Georgia's capital
home. Out of all U.S. metro areas, Atlanta holds the fourth largest Black immigrant population, with roughly 190,000
Black immigrants in 2019. That puts metro Atlanta ahead of Boston (180,000 Black immigrants) and behind Washington, D.C.
(260,000). New York City leads the country with roughly 1.1 million Black immigrants in 2019. Since 2010, the
Black immigrant population in Atlanta grew by 165%, according to the Pew report.
Six-month-old
baby shot dead in Atlanta, a victim of stray bullet. A 6-month-old baby was fatally shot in Atlanta, marking
the second infant to be killed in the city this month amid a surge in gun violence. The shooting occurred on Monday
outside a Food Mart convenience store around 3 p.m. The mourning mother told multiple news outlets she was driving
along Anderson Ave. when a bullet pierced her vehicle and then struck her baby, who was seated in the backseat at the
time. He was pronounced dead at Grady Hospital a short time later, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
British
man killed by stray bullet as he lay in bed in Atlanta. An astrophysicist from Surrey has died after being hit
by a stray bullet while lying in bed during a trip to Atlanta. Dr Matthew Willson, 31, from Chertsey, was shot in the
early hours of Friday when a weapon was discharged by a group of individuals from a neighbouring block of flats in the suburb
of Brookhaven. No suspects have been arrested. According to reports, several residents had phoned the emergency
services at about 2 am and police attended after multiple shots were fired. Willson was believed to have been visiting
his girlfriend in Georgia, having flown to the US last week.
Fulton
County election employees fired for allegedly shredding voter applications. Two elections officials in Fulton
County, Georgia, were fired Friday after they allegedly shredded voter registration forms. The county announced Monday
that the pair of employees were reported by a colleague to a superior for allegedly shredding voter registration applications
received within the last two weeks. They were fired the same day, and the Fulton County Election Commission reported
the incident to Georgia's secretary of state. The employees allegedly checked out the files for processing but shredded
some of the forms instead, according to a statement from Fulton County Registration and Elections Director Richard Barron.
[...] Georgia Secretary of State Ben Raffensperger put the number of shredded ballots at 300 and called on the U.S. Justice
Department to investigate Fulton County.
Georgia
asks DOJ to investigate largest county over alleged destruction of election documents. Georgia's top election
official on Monday [10/11/2021] demanded that the U.S. Justice Department open an investigation into election management in
the state's largest county after officials in Fulton County disclosed they had shredded at least 300 voter applications for
its upcoming municipal elections in apparent violation of the law. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office told
Just the News that his office had also opened an inquiry into the disclosure by Fulton County officials but believed it was
time for federal prosecutors to review chronic election irregularities inside the state's largest county, which includes the
city of Atlanta.
Man
Who Filmed Woman And Her Young Daughter At This Atlanta Walmart Gets A Massive Beatdown. A man walking around
Walmart on Gresham Rd was caught recording a woman and her little girl. They asked him to delete it but he was playing
dumb. A friend who was with them recognized the man as the same person that was following her the day before so they
gave the man a beating. The police showed up to arrest the man. [Video clip]
Keywords: Scarecrow, security theater, unplugged, just for show. Cameras
weren't working at Atlanta park where woman, dog were killed: report. Some surveillance cameras weren't working
at a popular Atlanta park where a woman and her dog were killed in a "gruesome" attack, according to a report. A
security camera near the entrance of Piedmont Park in the city's Midtown neighborhood caught the last known photo of
Katherine Janness, 40, walking her beloved Bowie before the pair were found stabbed early Wednesday morning [7/28/2021].
But other surveillance cams in the area, including one facing the park's entrance, weren't working at the time, relatives of
the woman's girlfriend told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Editor says...
Oh, but I'm sure that's the only place in Atlanta where the cameras don't work — or they aren't cameras at all.
Georgia
Democratic congressman arrested in voting rights protest. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and eight others were
arrested Thursday [7/22/2021] after they took part in a voting rights protest that illegally blocked the door of a Senate
office building on Capitol Hill. Johnson, 66, who has represented a majority-African American district east of Atlanta
since 2007, tweeted that he was "protesting against Senate inaction on voting rights legislation & filibuster reform.
"In the spirit of my dear friend and mentor — the late Congressman John Lewis — I was getting in
#goodtrouble," Johnson added. Earlier Thursday, Johnson joined other members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) at
a rally outside the Supreme Court to urge the Senate to scrap its legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes to pass
most bills.
The
Atlanta police exodus continues apace. Hearing stories about police departments across the United States
hemorrhaging officers has been all too common over the past couple of years. Originally these depletions were not of
the officers' choosing in many cases, as mayors and city councils bent a knee to the wishes of BLM and the "defund the
police" movement and cut their budgets. Additional cuts took place as a result of the pandemic shutdowns, leading to
significant municipal revenue losses. But more and more, as time has gone by, urban police forces have been losing
officers because they are increasingly taking early retirement or simply quitting their jobs due to the deplorable treatment
they've received at the hands of woke elected officials. That appears to be the case in Atlanta, Georgia.
Officers are hitting the bricks and leaving scathing letters to their superiors, letting them know precisely why they were
abandoning their career goals and the jobs that they used to love doing.
Suspect
charged in triple homicide that killed pro golfer Gene Siller. A suspect has been charged in the triple
homicide that killed pro golfer Gene Siller on Saturday, officials said Thursday. Bryan Anthony Rhoden faces three
counts of murder, three counts of aggravated assault and two counts of kidnapping, and is believed to be the lone
shooter. Many of the details surrounding the case remain unclear. Police previously said they found Siller's body
on the green of the 10th hole at the Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Georgia, with a gunshot wound to the head, and also
found the bodies of two other men who were shot in a white Dodge Ram 3500 pick-up truck on the golf course.
Bryan Rhoden: 5 Fast Facts. Bryan Rhoden
is an Atlanta rapper named B-Rod who is the suspect accused in the deaths of three men, including Gene Siller, a respected
golf pro in Kennesaw, Georgia. Siller was shot and killed on the golf course at Pinetree Country Club. [...] Rhoden has
had serious entanglements with the criminal justice system before. According to Pharos Tribune, he was previously
accused in 2020 of leading police on a high-speed chase in White and Tippecanoe counties. [...] In 2017, according to
AJC.com, Rhoden was accused of meeting visitors in a parking lot outside a residence hall while a GSU student to sell
drugs. An argument ensued and both Rhoden and another man were shot, the newspaper reported. Rhoden and the other
man were accused of assault, attempted murder and possession of a firearm on campus, the newspaper reported.
Woman
awakes to serval, native to Africa, in her Atlanta bedroom. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is
trying to catch an exotic cat that's on the loose in Historic Brookhaven. The agency has received at least three
reports this week about a serval, which is native to Africa, roaming the neighborhood that borders Atlanta and Brookhaven.
[...] "It's difficult in an urban situation like this because there are so many places to hide, but we think it's staying in
a relatively small area of the neighborhood," said Lt. Wayne Hubbard. Hubbard said servals are popular in the pet
trade and that the animal on the loose is likely someone's pet. However, it is illegal to have servals as pets in the
state of Georgia.
Atlanta's
'Marxist Land Grab' Is a Preview of Joe Biden's Nefarious Plans for the Suburbs. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance
Bottoms has opted not to run again after a disastrous year that has placed her city on the growing list of urban centers with
alarming increases in crime. Recently, Bill White, chairman and CEO of the Buckhead City Committee, appeared on Tucker
Carlson Tonight to talk about the movement to separate Buckhead from Atlanta. White pointed to the increase in violent
crime in residential neighborhoods as a key driver of the initiative. The group's primary goal is to increase the law
enforcement presence and remove limits placed on police by the mayor to patrol and apprehend criminals. But,
unfortunately, instead of taking the concerns of the citizens of Buckhead seriously, Bottoms and other city leaders are
taking a different approach. Rather than trying to convince Buckhead to end its bid to form its own municipality by
restoring effective law enforcement, city leaders ramped up their attacks on residential areas like Buckhead.
Cops:
Driver shoots man who forced him to stop, pulled him from vehicle. A man was arrested Thursday night
[6/17/2021] after forcing a driver out of his car and attacking him in northwest Atlanta, police said. Officers were
called to the 900 block of Brady Avenue around 11 p.m. for a report of a shooting. A 24-year-old man said he was
driving south when Jamarcus James Holiday, 24, pulled up beside him in another car and threatened him, the police report
said. The man told police he did not know Holiday. He then pulled into the parking lot of the Miller Union
restaurant and asked the valet to call police, the report said.
Why
won't the national media cover the story Americans care about most? It's a very basic concept of
journalism: Cover the stories that impact your viewers and readers most, the stories they most care about. But
for one very big story, there's been relative silence from our national media, just passing mentions. It is the
skyrocketing violent crime that is paralyzing many major American cities while prompting record numbers of police officers
either resigning or retiring. [...] Atlanta: Murders are up 58 percent compared to 2020 at this time. The city's
mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms (D), blames Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) for reopening the state before others.
"Remember in Georgia we were opened up before the rest of the country, even before the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention) said that it was safe for us to open, so our night clubs and our bars remained open, so we had people traveling
here from across the country to party in our city," she said with a straight face in an MSNBC interview.
Ballot
Problems Persist in Atlanta, Georgia — Missing Ballots, Missing Logs, Duplicated Ballot Scans and
Worse. To say there are sketchy issues in Fulton County, Georgia, elections would be the understatement of the
year. So many issues have been raised with the Atlanta area 2020 election processes it would be impossible to
encapsulate them in one article. However, one consistent pattern continues: It appears specific lots of
ballots — all favoring Joe Biden — were counted multiple times. The multiple counting
issue is just one aspect, one point of data, that current lawsuits within the region are attempting to resolve. The
scanning of the same batches of ballots multiple times would explain the "missing batches" issue. The batches are
"missing" because they were simply not batches at all, they were duplicate scans of ballots that had already been
counted. Additionally, fraudulent ballots created on non secure paper, which appear to have been made on copy machines,
is another issue. That issue has been directly confirmed to CTH by an election worker who was part of the original
count and who noted there were ballots on paper that was not authorized as print stock for the original ballots.
Buckhead should join
Alabama. Part of the Confederacy is seceding. Buckhead is trying to secede from Atlanta. For you
Yanquis, be aware that Buckhead is a rich Atlanta neighborhood which pays a ton of property tax to Atlanta. Which is to
say they are a bastion of white privilege that deserves punishment. And so, it's punishment that they are
getting. You see, Atlanta is very woke. That means the police are handcuffed in their efforts to control
crime. And that means crime rates in Buckhead are skyrocketing. And that means people who are not
criminals — people like the residents of Buckhead — are disappointed and often endangered. It's
not about slavery. It's about crime. Buckhead may succeed in seceding. Organizers say 80% of Buckhead
residents back it. But here's the problem with Buckhead's scheme. If Buckhead secedes, it'll still be part of Georgia.
Atlanta
community moves to separate from city over crime spike: 'People have had enough'. A community in Atlanta has
decided to separate from the city and create its own police force. Bill White, the Buckhead City Committee CEO, said
the decision comes as crime in Atlanta has skyrocketed and police are not being properly funded. White told Bill Hemmer
on "America's Newsroom" that he estimates nearly 80 percent of his community will vote in favor of the separation.
"We have two bills in the Georgia legislature dropping in January to decide this referendum ballot," White said.
Tucker Carlson, Buckhead, and
Why Our Cities Fail. The subject of the Monday segment is the effort by the residents of Buckhead, which is a
formerly nice area in the northwestern part of Atlanta that is home to around 80,000 mostly well-off and mostly white people,
to create their own city. Atlanta's criminal element has turned Buckhead into a war zone in recent years and
particularly since the fiasco involving the drunken criminal Rayshard Brooks, who was shot by police last year. As a
result, the citizens there have decided they want their own police force to keep the place safe; Atlanta's police department,
which is being depopulated, if not defunded, thanks to widespread retirements and resignations in the wake of the Brooks
fiasco, is no longer capable of providing that kind of public safety. Carlson's report talks with a rather
matter-of-fact tone about efforts to pass legislation at the Georgia capitol enabling the birth of Buckhead. Why
wouldn't Buckhead's residents attempt to form their own city? After all, upscale, law-abiding homeowners in nice areas
like Buckhead are more or less members of an oppressed minority in Atlanta these days, particularly when a city like that one
is governed by an "incompetent demagogue" (Carlson's words) like Keisha Bottoms. All of this is completely true.
What Carlson's report leaves out is the why.
Atlanta
May Be Headed for a Final Divorce As Communities Nationwide Seek to Redraw the Lines. Buckhead, a portion of
Atlanta, Georgia, is looking to break free from the rest of a city in rapid decline. After decades of increased safety
that started ahead of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, it took one woman and a single summer to ruin it. Not even New
York City Mayor Bill de Blasio can beat Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' time for running a city into the ground. It took de
Blasio two terms. Bottoms has been so spectacular she's announced she won't even run for a second one.
Atlanta
police apparently fail to pursue drive-by shooting suspect: Video. Atlanta-area law enforcement
apparently failed to pursue a suspect vehicle involved in a drive-by shooting as crime in the city continues to rise,
according to a video released Monday [6/14/2021]. A white sedan can be seen firing and striking a black van as bystanders
flee the area, according to video from Bill White, the leader of the Buckhead City Committee, an organization of neighbors
that seeks to fragment from Atlanta. Blue lights appear after the gunfire, though authorities are not seen chasing the
white vehicle.
Two
15 Year Old Thugs Hold Security Guard At Lenox Square Mall Hostage, End Up Shooting Him. Atlanta police have
arrested two 15-year-olds in the shooting of a security guard who was held at gunpoint at Lenox Square Mall Sunday night
[6/13/2021]. The mall had just closed at around 8:30 p.m. Sunday when police say the two teenagers attempted to enter
the building near the entrance to the Apple Store. The suspects' charges included armed robbery, aggravated assault and
various gun possession charges. [Video clip]
Footage
shows cops doing NOTHING after innocent people are shot during Atlanta drive-by because mayor has banned police
pursuits. This is the moment cops appear to do nothing amid a drive-by shooting in Atlanta as residents of the
wealthy Buckhead area say it's a 'warzone' and demand to secede. The video, which was played on Tucker Carlson Tonight,
shows people lining up near a dark-colored van that is parked on the side of the road when a white car passes by and shots
ring out, with one going straight through the dark van, striking one of the passersby and sending people scrambling. A
few seconds later, blue lights could be seen reflecting off the windshield of the black van, symbolizing police cars passing
by and not stopping at the scene in the wealthy Buckhead neighborhood.
Could
Lawsuits Stem the Tide of Violence Sweeping the Big Cities That Defund the Police? Last summer, eight-year-old
Secoriea Turner got killed because the SUV she was riding in came too close to a particular Wendy's in Atlanta. Her
parents have now filed a lawsuit alleging that city leaders Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Police Chief Rodney Bryant, and City
Council member Joyce Sheperd had been negligent in controlling the area, leading to their daughter's death. The lawsuit
also names the city government of Atlanta.
Suburban
residents want to break from Atlanta and create [their] own police force. Residents in a suburban town within
Atlanta are seeking to split from the city and create their own police force to combat rising crime and a recent string of
shooting incidents. The Buckhead City Committee, a group of neighbors that includes "lobbyists, attorneys, legislators
and experts," is set to demand emergency meetings with the Atlanta-area officials to become its own municipality.
Leaders of the organization also want to establish their own law enforcement division to address and prevent criminal
activity more adequately. "Given everything that's been going on here, it's getting worse and worse and worse," Bill
White, the CEO of the Buckhead City Committee, told Fox News on Wednesday. "So, what we're doing because of the murders
going through the roof and the attempted murders and the lack of leadership and nothing changing — the insanity
continues — is we're demanding emergency hearings on our cityhood bills."
Disgusting
Thug Stabs Random Pregnant Woman In Front Of Her Child, Doctors Perform Emergency C Section. A pregnant woman
who was stabbed by a stranger while walking on a trail in Brookhaven with her young son had to undergo an emergency C-section
and surgery to repair her injured organs. That's according to a GoFundMe page set up by a friend to help her family.
Officials said on Saturday, June 5 at around 5:30 p.m., the woman was walking with her 3-year-old son on the
Peachtree Creek Greenway when a stranger tried to talk to her. When the woman tried to walk away, police said the man
stabbed her in the back several times with a pocket knife and then fled on the greenway toward Corporate Boulevard. The
suspect has not yet been caught. [Video clip]
Vernon
Jones files brief in support of $100 million lawsuit against MLB. Republican Georgia gubernatorial candidate
Vernon Jones filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against the MLB for moving its All-Star Game from Atlanta. "It
is clear the MLB, Stacey Abrams, and the Biden Administration are playing politics at the expense of the citizens of
Georgia. We must fight back against this injustice. I support this lawsuit and am proud to stand up for
Georgians. It would be nice if Governor Kemp did the same. Sadly, it seems he is never around when the people of
Georgia really need him," Jones said in a statement. "The MLB's decision to pull the game out of Cobb County, betrayed
that legal process, and caused significant harm to the very people it purportedly sought to support, small and minority
businesses, along with their workers and employees," he added.
Dad-of-three,
41, is shot twice while out jogging in Atlanta's richest neighborhood Buckhead. A father-of-three out jogging
on Saturday morning in Atlanta's wealthiest neighborhood, Buckhead, was shot twice by a 'mentally ill' man who police say
also opened fire on two other people and mowed down a neighbor with his car. Atlanta police arrested and charged
22-year-old Gaelen Newsom with attempted murder, three counts of aggravated assault and two counts of possession of a firearm
during a crime in connection with the weekend crime spree. The first shooting was in the 1200 block of West Wesley Road
in Buckhead, Atlanta's richest section, which has been making a push to form its own police force and secede from the rest of
the city amid skyrocketing crime rates.
Dad-of-three,
41, is shot twice while out jogging in Atlanta's richest neighborhood Buckhead where residents are fighting for
secession. A father-of-three out jogging on Saturday morning in Atlanta's wealthiest neighborhood, Buckhead,
was shot twice by a 'mentally ill' man who police say also opened fire on two other people and mowed down a neighbor with his
car. Atlanta police arrested and charged 22-year-old Gaelen Newsom with attempted murder, three counts of aggravated
assault and two counts of possession of a firearm during a crime in connection with the weekend crime spree. The first
shooting was in the 1200 block of West Wesley Road in Buckhead, Atlanta's richest section, which has been making a push to
form its own police force and secede from the rest of the city amid skyrocketing crime rates.
Police
ID suspect accused of shooting Buckhead jogger, ramming pedestrian with car. Atlanta police released the identity of a
suspect they believe shot at joggers in Buckhead, wounding one, on Saturday [6/5/2021] before pinning a pedestrian between his car
and a truck a few hours later. Police said 22-year-old Gaelen Newsom is the suspect in the two apparently connected crimes.
He's currently facing criminal attempt to commit murder, aggravated battery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a
crime. He's currently in Fulton County Jail.
Police
name man responsible for shooting at joggers and striking a pedestrian. Investigators have identified Gaelen
Newsom, 22, as the man responsible for Saturday morning's incidents in the Buckhead area and he now faces a slew of
charges. Police said they have identified the jogger who got shot as Andrew Worrell and he is in stable condition.
[...] APD said they while investigating they found multiple shell casing inside the suspect's vehicle and made the connection
that this was the possible suspect from the shootings throughout the morning.
Atlanta
'defund the police' backer has car stolen — by kids in broad daylight: reports. An Atlanta city
councilman — who is aiming to be the city's next mayor — had his car stolen by children in broad
daylight Wednesday [5/27/2021], according to reports. Councilman Antonio Brown was attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony
at an event in northeast Atlanta around noon when at least four kids jumped into his car and took off, FOX 5 of Atlanta
reported. [...] The incident occurred amid a recent crime wave in the city. Brown, who joined the city's mayoral race
less than three weeks ago, is running on a campaign of "reimagining public safety," the paper reported. Last year, he
voted in support of an ordinance to withhold $73 million from the budget of the Atlanta Police Department. The
ordinance was narrowly voted down.
A
leftist police-defunding pol gets his car stolen out from under him in Atlanta. There's nothing like a leftist
getting a taste of his own medicine. Which brings us to Atlanta, where a Antonio Brown, an Atlanta city councilman and
mayoral candidate, got his car stolen out from under him, following his vote to defund the Atlanta police department.
Judge
Orders Physical Review of Fulton County Ballots — Expert Witness Testified High Percentage Discrepancy in Ballot
Batches. There are approximately ten plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit about the election and ballot tabulation
in Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia. The state and local officials had been denying access to the physical ballots,
only permitting a review of low resolution scanned images. However, an expert testified a disparity of approximately
21% (of those "low resolution" absentee ballot batches) from what the state reported to what the auditors were able to
see. A large number of the scanned ballots appear to have been counted twice. The only way to really tell if any
of the batches contained duplicated or photocopied ballots would be to look at the physical ballots (preferred) or to look at
high-resolution images of the physical ballots. Today [5/21/2021] a Georgia judge agreed to allow the plaintiffs to
review the physical ballots in a process yet determined (future order forthcoming). The custody of the ballots will remain
under the control of the Fulton County election officials, but the auditors will be permitted access to them. This
could be significant as there are 145,000 specific Fulton County absentee ballots at issue.
Atlanta
Road Rage Shootings Are Troubling, But How Bad Is The Problem? [Scroll down] First, there are 26 cases of
a driver shooting at another driver this year, which sounds like a lot, but there are a lot of variables missing from this
discussion. For one thing, out of how many cars? Between I-75, I-85, and I-285 alone I saw tens of thousands of
different vehicles, plus many more on the state highways and local roads. I mean, the population of Atlanta is almost
half a million people, plus all the people driving through the city on their way to somewhere else. If there are just
26 cases of such shootings, that actually sounds like it's still fairly rare, all things considered.
Woman
Is Brutally Assaulted, Dragged By Her Hair By Another In Front Of Child At Little Ceasers. This was the
horrific scene at a Little Ceasers in Atlanta when a woman was brutally assaulted while a young child tries to help
her. It is very hard to decipher what the attacking woman wrote on her social media but the assault seems to stem from
the white woman having the assaulting woman's child at her house and not answering the front door when she came looking for
her but it also can be from giving the little girl a ride. The English is so poor, it is hard to tell but it seems
these two women live in the same neighborhood and the white woman is friendly with her assaulter's child, the girl trying to
help her. [Video clip]
Keisha
Lance Bottoms won't seek second term as Atlanta mayor. Keisha Lance Bottoms, the first-term Atlanta mayor who
rose to national prominence this past year with her stern yet empathetic televised message to protesters but has struggled to
rein in her city's spike in violent crime, will not seek a second term in office, Bottoms announced on Twitter on Thursday
night [5/6/2021].
Atlanta
Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Rayshard Brooks in Wendy's Parking Lot Is Reinstated by Civil Service Board.
Late on Wednesday [5/5/2021], a decision was handed down by Atlanta's Civil Service Board ordering the reinstatement of fired
Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe. Rolfe was terminated on June 13, 2020, after he fatally shot Rayshard Brooks when
Brooks turned and fired a Taser at Officer Rolfe who was chasing him through the parking lot of a Wendy's fast-food restaurant.
Rolfe was later charged with second-degree murder by the Fulton County District Attorney on the basis that the Taser fired at Rolfe
by Brooks was not a dangerous weapon, and Rolfes' response with deadly force was a criminal act under Georgia law.
Board
reverses termination of Atlanta police officer charged with killing Rayshard Brooks. The Atlanta Civil Service
Board has reversed the termination of Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, charged in the shooting death of Rayshard
Brooks. "Due to the City's failure to comply with several provisions of the Code and the information received during
witnesses' testimony, the Board concludes the Appellant was not afforded his right to due process. Therefore, the Board
GRANTS the Appeal of Garrett Rolfe and revokes his dismissal as an employee of the APD," the statement read.
Arizona
murder suspect who escaped at Atlanta airport captured. After a massive manhunt that lasted nearly 16 hours, an
Arizona murder suspect who escaped police Thursday morning [4/29/2021] near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is back
in custody. J'Saan Carlos Strover was arrested about 11:30 p.m. after being spotted by a television news reporter who
was covering his escape. A Channel 2 Action News reporter saw the man dart into some bushes in the College Park area,
not far from where he first went missing. Police were called and Strover was quickly surrounded and taken into custody,
the news station reported. [...] He is wanted in Maricopa County on murder and aggravated assault charges in connection with
a Feb. 19 double shooting that left one man dead and another injured at a Phoenix bar, Arizona-based AZfamily.com reported.
Coca-Cola
GC who pushed law firms on diversity resigns post after less than a year. Bradley Gayton, who joined the
Coca-Cola Co as general counsel in September and made headlines for requiring its law firms to staff its matters with diverse
lawyers or lose its business, has resigned, the beverage giant said in a Wednesday [4/21/2021] filing. Gayton will now
serve as an outside consultant to Coca-Cola's chief executive, the Atlanta-based company said in a statement and a filing
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. [...] Gayton's new consulting agreement is non-exclusive and expires at the
end of next April. Under its terms, he is set to receive a lump-sum, $4 million "sign-on make-whole" payment this
month and an additional $8 million combined in monthly installments, the filing said.
A
bill would carve 'Buckhead City' out of Atlanta. Here's what could happen next. Now that a bill has been
introduced to make Buckhead its own city, a study could be underway soon to determine if such a move is viable. On the
last day of the legislative session last month, state lawmakers filed a bill to form "Buckhead City" out of a portion of
Atlanta known for its wealth, luxury shopping and political influence. Because new cities must be approved by the
Legislature over at least two sessions, it will be November 2022 at the earliest before voters in Buckhead could have a say
on its creation. It could face stiff opposition under the Gold Dome, but Buckhead cityhood proponents have already
begun working to raise money and do the research needed to justify a new city.
Some
Thugs Decide To Catch Fights Instead Of Flights At Atlanta Airport, Police Has To Use Taser To Stop. Several
people are facing charges after a wild fight ended in the use of Taser at the Atlanta airport. According to Atlanta
police, three people were attempting to enter the TSA checkpoint on Tuesday morning at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport. One of the passengers didn't have identification, which led to an argument between the group and
the TSA employee, police said. [Video clip]
Trumping
Jussie Smollett: Elites Deconstruct the Atlanta Murders. Fake news imitates reality, as mainstream media
competes with itself in distorting what happened in Atlanta. The commentary surrounding the Atlanta shooting appears to
be more fake than actor Jussie Smollett's insane hoax that he was attacked by Trump supporters on the streets of
Chicago. But just as nearly everyone who was not wilfully blind saw through Smollett's terrible acting, the media's
"white racism" angle on the horrifying Atlanta murders exceeded reductio ad absurdum levels. What made the
professional Left — now featuring Asian American elites — explode with gleeful fury was the emergence
of a perfect racist enemy — a white, male, religious zealot who had just purchased the murder weapon. Such a
perpetrator now justifies Asian American elites, who tack hard Left, to ignore the unpleasant reality of black on Asian crime.
Boulder
Massacre Is Just as Much a Hate Crime as the Atlanta Spa Shootings. In Atlanta, Robert Aaron Long went on a
shooting rampage at 3 different massage parlors, killing 8. Six of those 8 victims were Asian American women.
There was an almost universal outcry in Atlanta against the "hate crime," although Mr. Long gave no indication he
harbored any animus toward Asians. President Joe Biden also said "hate" was the Atlanta shooter's motive. [...] That
reference to "words have consequences" is a direct slap at Donald Trump, who said mean things about the Chinese Communists
following the discovery that COVID-19 probably originated in Wuhan, China, last year and he's now being blamed for the
anti-Asian violence.
Who's
really committing this sudden spate of anti-Asian hate crimes? Robert Long in Atlanta must have been motivated
by racial hatred because...well, just because — because he is white! And a Christian! Law enforcement,
including the FBI, cannot find proof that it was a hate crime, but it must have been! Well, let's look at some
facts. Blacks commit a far higher proportion of hate crimes against Asians than do whites. According to the FBI,
in 2019, there were 205 hate crimes against Asians, of which 46% were committed by whites and 15% by blacks (for some reason,
the Department of Justice, the FBI's parent organization, says 52.5% were committed by whites and 23.9% by blacks in 2019).
In either case, using either the FBI or the DoJ statistics, since whites are 73% of the U.S. population and blacks 12.7%, whites
are greatly underrepresented among the perpetrators of anti-Asian hate crimes.
Does
the Media Really Know the Atlanta Shooter's Motive Better Than He Does? On Tuesday [3/16/2021], a gunman
targeted three massage parlors in the Atlanta area, killing eight people and wounding one more. Police arrested a
suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, who confessed to the shooting, claiming he had been motivated by a sexual addiction
and aimed to remove "temptation." However, since six of the eight victims were Asian American women, leftist
commentators, Democrats, and legacy media outlets rushed to the conclusion that Long's true motive was anti-Asian hatred
tracing back to "white supremacy." Many noted the rise in anti-Asian harassment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When
The Narrative Replaces The News. This story's coverage is proof, it seems to me, that American journalists have
officially abandoned the habit of attempting any kind of "objectivity" in reporting these stories. We are now in the
enlightened social justice world of "moral clarity" and "narrative-shaping." Here's the truth: We don't yet know
why this man did these horrible things. It's probably complicated, or, as my therapist used to say, "multi-determined."
That's why we have thorough investigations and trials in America. We only have one solid piece of information as to motive,
which is the confession by the mass killer to law enforcement: that he was a religious fundamentalist who was determined
to live up to chastity and repeatedly failed, as is often the case. Like the 9/11 bombers or the mass murderer at the
Pulse nightclub, he took out his angst on the source of what he saw as his temptation, and committed mass murder.
FBI
Director Says Atlanta Shooting 'Does Not Appear' Racially Motivated. FBI Director Christopher Wray told NPR
Tuesday's Atlanta-area shootings that killed eight people — six of whom were Asian-American — do not
seem to be linked to race, backing up local police who say the alleged shooter was probably motivated by a sex addiction
rather than racial animus, a theory that's drawn skepticism and pushback from some corners.
Atlanta's
richest neighborhood Buckhead pushes for secession and its own police force as city-wide crime explosion sees murders soar
80%. Residents in a wealthy Atlanta community are trying to create their own police force as part of a push for
secession as the city is rocked by a crime wave with murders up 80 percent so far this year. The Buckhead Exploratory
Committee, made up of residents of the city's richest neighborhood of Buckhead, are looking to break away from the city in
the wake of a surge in violent crime that has left people 'genuinely concerned for their safety.' In recent months, home
surveillance footage captured the moment a man sprinted to reach the safety of his home as a car pulled up with a man
brandishing a rifle.
Armed
Citizen Stops Robbery Suspect at Chick-fil-A in Atlanta: Police. An armed person stopped an attempted
burglary in Atlanta this week, police said. On March 8 around 3:03 p.m., officers responded to a Chik-fil-A on
Peachtree Street. "Upon arrival, officers spoke with witnesses who stated a black male walked inside, produced a
firearm and demanded money from several employees. The employees fled and the suspect exited the business a short time
later. Several nearby citizens confronted the suspect as he was leaving. One of the citizens was armed and at
some point, during the confrontation, the citizen fired several shots. The suspect ran on foot and was apprehended
nearby, by the citizens and held until police arrived," the Atlanta Police Department said in a preliminary update sent to
The Epoch Times. "The suspect's weapon was recovered. No one was struck by the gunfire and charges are pending
against the robbery suspect. No charges have been filed against the citizen and the investigation continues," the
department added. The suspect was identified as Willie Gloston IV, 23.
Georgia
Governor Sues Atlanta Mayor over Mask Mandate. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has filed a lawsuit against Atlanta
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the Atlanta City Council challenging the city's decision to mandate masks and revert to phase
one reopening guidelines. The lawsuit calls the city's new mask requirements "void and unenforceable" and asks a judge
to block Bottoms from issuing any orders or press releases imposing a mask mandate or enacting other restrictions that are
stricter than the state's.
A
Black DeKalb neighborhood, a 'racist Exxon' and a 66-day protest. Rahim Sivji leaves the register, walks back
to the stockroom and sits on a waist-high pillar of Sprite. He leans his elbow on a slightly taller stack of Coke and
takes a deep breath. Sivji has owned this Exxon station at the corner of Flat Shoals and Gresham roads —
southwestern DeKalb County, not far from East Atlanta proper — for more than two decades. He's still there
seven days a week, does a little bit of everything. He says he wants to die working. But on this warm day in late
February, he says he's under contract to sell the store. The departure is something short of voluntary. For
66 days last fall, protesters were on the sidewalk outside the store, warning away would-be customers with a simple message
borne on signs big and small: "BOYCOTT
THIS RACIST EXXON."
Cops:
Teens shot while breaking into car outside SE Atlanta Waffle House. Two teenage boys were shot Monday evening
when a man spotted them trying to break into his car outside a southeast Atlanta Waffle House, authorities said.
Officers were called to the intersection of Flat Shoals and Fayetteville roads about 10:30 p.m. to tend to the injured boys,
Atlanta police spokesman Officer Steve Avery said. Each had a gunshot wound to the leg. According to
investigators, the teens were trying to break into a car at the Waffle House on Memorial Drive when the vehicle's owner,
32-year-old Bryant Mayner, noticed and came outside. Mayner pulled out a gun and began shooting toward his vehicle,
striking the 13-year-old and 14-year-old, Avery said.
Pair
charged with shooting woman who shushed them in movie theater. Two suspects sought in the shooting of a
movie-goer who shushed them in an Atlanta theater have been arrested, police said. Camyrn King, 20, and Yvonne
Crawford, 22, were arrested in Indiana by the US Marshals Service for allegedly shooting a woman in the shoulder after she
asked them to quiet down inside an AMC theater in Atlanta in January, police said Wednesday [2/17/2021]. The two women,
who were charged with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, will be extradited
back to Atlanta, department officials said.
Democrat
star Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms admits she doesn't know how to stop alarming crime wave. Atlanta Mayor
Keisha Lance Bottoms, a rising star in the Democratic Party who was recently considered for a position in President-elect Joe
Biden's cabinet, is coming under fire for her administration's handling of a surge in violent crime in her city. Saying
she was 'open to suggestions' on stopping the crime wave, the mayor was on the defensive over the holiday weekend after three
people were fatally shot in the city, bringing Atlanta's homicide count to its highest in more than two decades. A
7-year-old girl who was shot in the head by a stray bullet after Christmas shopping with her family in Atlanta has died,
marking another fatality in a city suffering from a spike in gun violence.
Report: Atlanta
sees highest homicide rate since 1990. Atlanta, Georgia is seeing record-breaking homicide rates amid a rise in
violent crime across the nation. According to Atlanta police, there have been more than 130 homicides in 2020, which
makes it the deadliest year for Georgia's capital since 1990. The number of confirmed homicides currently sits at 131,
which is exponentially higher than the 90 murders reported at the same time last year. There has been a 46 percent
increase. Crime statistics of the city's layout show the largest increase has been seen in the 'downtown' and 'midtown'
areas, with a massive spike of 317 percent reported.
Floyd
County terminates election director after state audit uncovers uncounted votes. Floyd County's Board of
Elections voted Thursday [11/19/2020] to fire its executive director after elections officials discovered hundreds of ballots
were left uncounted before the county's initial certification. The Secretary of State's Office initially asked for
Floyd Chief of Elections Clerk Robert Brady to step down after officials discovered the uncounted votes. The board met
for little more than an hour Thursday afternoon in a special meeting, which resutled in Brady's terminiation. Officials
cited at least two reprimands that Brady received in the past six months as the reason for his firing.
Man
shoots at suspects during attempted robbery at Neiman Marcus. Atlanta Police have detained two people at Lenox
Mall after multiple shots were fired early Friday evening [10/16/2020]. Around 4:45 p.m. an off-duty officer was flagged
down by a witness who stated a person was being robbed inside Neiman Marcus. The victim told the officer he checking
out at the cash register when he was attacked by multiple Black males in an attempt to steal his bag. During the
attack, the victim pulled out a weapon and shot at the four suspects.
Atlanta
activist spent $200G in Black Lives Matter donations on house, personal expenses: FBI. The FBI has
arrested the founder of a Black Lives Matter group in Atlanta on fraud and money laundering charges. Sir Maejor Page,
32, was accused Friday of misappropriating $200,000 in donations he solicited through Facebook on behalf of Black Lives
Matter of Greater Atlanta, Fox 5 Atlanta reported Friday [9/25/2020]. Page was arrested in Toledo and released
on bond after appearing before a judge via video. He did not immediately return messages Saturday from Fox News.
The
Left's New Martyrology. Fulton County, Georgia district attorney Paul Howard charged police officer Garrett
Rolfe with "murdering" Rayshard Brooks after Brooks discharged a taser at Rolfe and apparently Rolfe's partner. This is
despite the fact that Howard himself depicted a taser as a deadly weapon as defined by Georgia law. The prosecutors
argued that the taser was no longer dangerous as Brooks had discharged it twice. It is doubtful that Rolfe kept count
in all that confusion. The extreme left used the opportunity to take up where General Sherman left off in 1864 by
burning part of Atlanta and killing an 8-year-old girl whose black life was clearly as meaningless to them as police captain
David Dorn's was to thugs in St. Louis. Killing people is such a wonderful way to tell us how much lives of any
color really matter to one's cause, isn't it?
Why
Marjorie Taylor Greene's opponent quit the House race. Kevin Van Ausdal's uphill campaign for a U.S. House seat
ended with a knock on his door late Wednesday [9/9/2020] while he was cooking dinner. It was a deputy sheriff, there to
serve him divorce papers from his wife. As part of the proceedings, he would have to vacate the home they shared.
After flirting with renting a nearby place, the Democrat decided to move in with family in Indiana — and abruptly
abandon his congressional bid for an open seat against Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Atlanta
DA Who Charged Officer With Murder In Wendy's Parking Lot Shooting Gets Crushed In Re-Election Bid. Hopefully,
everyone remembers Paul Howard, the District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, who charged Atlanta Police Officer Garret
Rolfe with felony murder — a potential death penalty offense — after Rolfe shot and killed fleeing
felon Rayshard Brooks. As Rolfe and another officer had moved to handcuff Brooks after placing him under arrest for
drunk driving, Brooks began to fight both officers. In the course of the struggle Brooks managed to wrestle away the
taser device belonging to one of them and began to flee. Rolfe chased Brooks across the parking lot and shot Brooks
after Brooks had turned and fired the taser at Wolfe. Extensive video and audio of the entire incident, including from
body cams worn by the officers has been widely seen.
Ex-Atlanta
officer charged in Rayshard Brooks' death sues to get job back. The former Atlanta officer who fatally shot
Rayshard Brooks during an arrest attempt has filed a lawsuit against the mayor and interim police chief seeking to get his
job back. Garrett Rolfe contends his firing June 13, the day after Brooks died, violated the city's policy in the
lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court. Rolfe says in court documents that Brooks violently resisted arrest and
the shooting was justified. The 27-year-old charged with felony murder and other charges is free on bond. But on
Wednesday [8/5/2020], prosecutors said they will ask a judge to revoke bond for Rolfe, who traveled to Florida.
DC
Mayor Exempts John Lewis Funeral Attendees From City's Quarantine Restrictions. Lawmakers who attended the
funeral of late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) in Atlanta earlier this week are exempt from Washington, D.C.'s, self-quarantine
restrictions, according to District Mayor Muriel Bowser's office. According to the mayor's July 24 order, titled
"Requirement to Self-Quarantine After Non-Essential Travel During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency," any residents who
travel to "high-risk" areas for "non-essential" reasons must self-quarantine for 14 days and monitor themselves for symptoms
of the virus. [...] The order, which remains in effect at least until Oct. 9, goes on to define "high-risk areas" as
"locations where the seven (7)-day moving average daily new COVID-19 case rate is ten (10) or more per one hundred thousand
(100,000) persons." By such a metric, the entire state of Georgia is considered "high-risk," and a recent federal report
listed it in the "red zone" because of its skyrocketing cases of the virus. Atlanta's Fulton County averaged 228 cases
per 100,000 people in the past seven days, according to most recent statistics from The New York Times.
Indicted
Atlanta councilman says he will not step down. Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Brown, who was indicted by a
federal grand jury Wednesday [7/29/2020] on multiple counts of fraud, says he was not stepping down from his council seat.
[...] The U.S. Attorney's Office said Brown allegedly lied about his income on applications to obtain loans and credit cards
which he used for personal purchases — including a Range Rover and Mercedes Benz C300. Federal authorities
also accused Brown of lying about being a victim of identity theft to defraud the financial institutions that gave him the
money.
Atlanta
ICE field office vandalized; street closed off for investigation. A group vandalized the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement field office in downtown Atlanta overnight Sunday [7/26/2020]. Channel 2's Audrey Washington was at
the scene off Ted Turner Drive, where federal agents and Homeland Security police were standing outside. The Department
of Homeland Security, Department of Justice and immigration court offices are also located inside. Investigators are
collecting evidence and working to determine the cost of the damage.
Rep.
John Lewis Raised Millions While His District Starved. A lot of people have died in Georgia's 5th congressional
district over the summer. Murders are up 240% in Atlanta in July. The victims include an 80-year-old retired
mechanic and an 8-year-old girl. But only one man's death, that of Rep. John Lewis, who has been in Congress since
1986, has the media's attention. Unlike his fellow 80-year-old, Lewis never retired and had spent his entire life in
politics. He went from working for the Voter Education Project, funded by the New World Foundation, to running for
public office. In 1981, he won a spot on the Atlanta City Council, a post he continued drawing a pension from even as
he was in Congress, and then it was on to the House of Representatives. Lewis has always claimed that his goal was to
represent the "beloved community". As President Trump noted, the beloved community had seen better days, "Lewis should
spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested)."
Cops:
2 teens threatened people with guns for not buying water in Buckhead. Two teenagers face charges after
authorities said they threatened people with guns for not buying water from them in Buckhead. The separate incidents
took place along a half-mile stretch of Peachtree Road on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, Atlanta police Sgt. John
Chafee said Friday in a statement. About 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, officers were flagged down by a man near
Peachtree and Piedmont roads, according to the statement. The man said a group of juveniles who had been selling water
at the intersection assaulted him.
Georgia
governor sues Atlanta mayor for defying order ending mask mandates. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is suing
Atlanta's mayor after she defied his order that revoked mask mandates. Kemp filed a lawsuit against the state's capital
city Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Thursday for defying his earlier order eliminating mask mandates and pulling the city back
to "phase one" of coronavirus restrictions. "This lawsuit is on behalf of the Atlanta business owners and their
hardworking employees who are struggling to survive during these difficult times. These men and women are doing their
very best to put food on the table for their families while local elected officials shutter businesses and undermine economic
growth," Kemp said in a social media post on the lawsuit.
Suspect
wanted for shooting death of 8-year-old Atlanta girl turns [him]self in. A suspect wanted for fatally shooting
an 8-year-old girl in Atlanta over the Fourth of July weekend has turned himself into authorities. Julian Conley is facing a
felony murder charge and another for aggravated assault in connection with the death of Soercia Turner. His attorney, Jackie
Patterson, confirmed the 19-year-old suspect turned himself into authorities on Wednesday [7/15/2020], one day after warrants were
issued for his arrest.
An
outrageous prosecution in Atlanta turns scandalous. The charge of murder brought against Garrett Rolfe, the
Atlanta police officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, seemed dubious the moment it was filed. On examination, it
became clear that the prosecution is outrageous. The D.A., Paul Howard, Jr., brought charges before the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation completed its investigation. And, as Andy McCarthy has shown, Howard's felony murder theory is
ludicrous on the facts of this case. The prosecution also appears to be politically motivated, and not just as an
attempt to appease a mob. Howard is running for reelection. Reportedly, he was trailing in the polls, weighed
down by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption. The state ethics board is investigating the corruption
charges. Throwing the book at Officer Rolfe was likely a desperation move to secure Howard's reelection.
Georgia
expands criminal probe into DA in Rayshard Brooks case — who's now on his third explanation on
subpoenas. Did Paul Howard fraudulently issue grand jury subpoenas against the two officers in the Rayshard
Brooks case — and touch off weeks of violence and "blue flu"? The local Fox News affiliate reported a few
days ago that Georgia attorney general has asked the state's Bureau of Investigation to find out how Howard managed to issue
the subpoenas when the grand jury was not in session. The GBI had already opened a probe into Howard for an alleged
kickback scheme with former mayor Kasim Reed, and it also adds to the tension between the Fulton County DA and the GBI.
Criminal
Investigation Expanded Into District Attorney Who Charged Officers In Rayshard Brooks Shooting. The Georgia
Bureau of Investigation has reportedly expanded its criminal investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard
as new questions emerge about the grand jury subpoenas Howard's office issued in the case involving the death of Rayshard
Brooks. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has asked the GBI to expand the scope of its current investigation
regarding Howard after Carr learned about subpoenas Howard's office issued regarding Officer Garrett Rolfe and the use of
force against Brooks, whom Rolfe shot after he resisted arrest and fired a taser at him during a DUI arrest.
Atlanta
cops release photos of [a] man with [a] rifle [...] wanted in connection to the July 4th shooting of eight-year-old Secoriea
Turner. Atlanta cops have released images of a second armed person of interest who is wanted for questioning in
connection to the fatal shooting of an eight-year-old girl. Police shared the photos that show the man near the scene
where Secoriea Turner was shot dead on July 4 during protests outside the Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed.
Authorities said Secoriea was killed when gunmen opened fire on her mother's SUV while she was trying to drive through an
illegal roadblock set up by protesters.
What
'Systemic Liberalism' Has Wrought. After another weekend of violence in Atlanta — where nearly three
dozen were shot and five were killed, including an eight-year-old girl — Mayor Keisha Bottoms said "enough is
enough." However, because her worldview is corrupted by modern liberalism — which is the case with the leadership
in virtually every major U.S. city — she offered no real solutions for the recent epidemic of violence that
plagues Atlanta. Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp stepped in and ordered the activation of 1,000 National Guard
troops in order to "protect state property and patrol" the streets of Atlanta. [...] Part of the problem in
Atlanta — again, like we now see in so many large, Democrat-led U.S. cities — is plummeting police
morale. [...] As a result, police officers have been targeted for violence and mayhem simply for wearing their uniforms and
doing their jobs. In addition, police officers have been targeted — and unjustly fired — by their
superiors. This has been the case in Atlanta.
Atlanta
Mayor: Okay, Now That I Have The Virus, Everyone Has To Wear Masks. As we learned over the holiday
weekend, Atlanta Mayor (and potential Biden running mate) Keisha Lance Bottoms has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Her husband
has tested positive as well. While she reportedly remains asymptomatic, she maintains that she has "no idea" where or
when she could have been exposed to the novel coronavirus. As I asked at the time, is it possible she might not have
contracted the disease if she'd worn a mask more often? Perhaps she's taken that possibility to heart because it was
announced this week that she was signing an order to make masks mandatory in her city. And yesterday [7/8/2020] she did
just that.
Do
the lives of innocent city residents not matter? In Atlanta this weekend, an 8-year-old girl was shot and
killed while riding in a vehicle with her mother. The driver was trying to enter a parking lot where a group of people
had illegally placed barricades. Someone in the group reportedly opened fire. Elsewhere in Minneapolis, a
pregnant woman was shot while in her car. Doctors were able to deliver and save her child, but the woman died shortly
thereafter. And in Seattle, where a teenage boy died last week, another young woman was killed after a car drove into a
group of protesters on a closed highway. We don't know much about the perpetrators or their politics, but we do know
this: Violence will continue to escalate in cities that refuse to check and put down lawless behavior.
Atlanta
mayor calls for citizens to stop 'shooting each other' after murder of 8-year-old near BLM protest site. In an
impassioned press conference Sunday night, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued a full-throated call for citizens to
stop "shooting each other up on our streets," after an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed on the Fourth of July near a
Wendy's that has become a flashpoint of anti-police Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in the city. Bottoms, a Democrat
who is considered a potential running mate for Joe Biden, made the remarks as she fought through tears — and the
nation endured a new bout of urban carnage. Sixty-three people were injured and 17 killed in Chicago, including two
children, over the weekend; and in New York City, 44 were hurt and at least six killed.
The Editor says...
People who shoot at each other don't care what the mayor says. One could easily suspect that the mayor is pretending to be outraged about
the violence only because she is being considered for the office of Vice President — right behind a President who has one foot in the
dementia ward already. Her record as the mayor of a Democratic hell hole isn't much to brag about.
So
Incredibly Evil: Armed Protesters Occupying Area Near Atlanta Wendy's Reportedly Shoot and Kill Little Girl.
This is about as evil as you can get and a horrible story to have to report. According to police, 8 year old Secoriea
Turner was riding in a car with her mom and an adult friend when car turned off the interstate near the Wendy's in Atlanta where
Rayshard Brooks was shot by the police. They were trying to enter a parking lot to turn around but were stopped by people
who were illegally blocking the entrance. Protesters had been illegally occupying the area since the killing of Brooks.
An armed group of black males surrounded the car. At some point in the interaction, someone in the group shot into the car,
killing the little girl.
Atlanta Mayor
Drops Reality Bomb: It's Not Police Shooting up Communities, It's Community Members. After Atlanta Police
abandoned their posts due to Atlanta's leadership turning their back on them, crime skyrocketed and shootings became
relatively common. They became so common that 8-year-old Secoriea Turner was shot and killed on Saturday when a group
of people shot up the car she was riding in as they passed by the same Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms gave a press conference on the atrocity committed for no good reason. During her
small speech, she pointed out that all of these riots and crimes were supposed to be in reaction to the way police and
society at large treated the black community but in truth, it's not the police that are shooting up the communities, it's
members of the community.
After
[a] Little Girl [was] Killed at [a] Protester Location Near Wendy's in Atlanta, Now Three More People [have been]
Shot. We brought you the horrible story on Sunday [7/5/2020] that "protesters," who had been occupying a
parking lot near the Atlanta Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed by the police, shot and killed a little eight-year-old
girl, Secoriea Turner. She was in a car with her mom and a friend when they pulled off the interstate and turned into
the parking lot to try to turn around but they were stopped by "protesters" who were illegally barricading the parking
lot. Armed men surrounded the car. An altercation ensued and police say two men were involved in shooting into
the car, killing the child.
Police:
14 people shot during fireworks at Atlanta intersection. Over a dozen people have been injured after a shooting
during a party at a northeast Atlanta intersection, police say. Officers were called to the 200 block of Auburn Avenue
around 1 a.m. Sunday [7/5/2020] after reports of multiple people shot. According to police, the incident
happened when a large group of people gathered at an intersection to watch fireworks and celebrate.
Vandals
target Georgia State |Patrol headquarters in Atlanta. The Georgia State Patrol headquarters in southeast
Atlanta was vandalized early Sunday [7/5/2020] by a group accused of setting off at least one firework inside the
building. A spokesperson for the Georgia State Patrol told FOX 5 that shortly after 1 a.m. a group of between
60 and 100 masked protesters approached the building on United Avenue. Video at the scene showed several dozen people
outside and the sound of drums being played in the background. Smoke could be seen through a glass window of the
building after the red flash that looked to be coming from inside.
Have
we reached the point at which self-defense is a crime? Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe has been charged
with felony murder for killing Rayshard Brooks, who first attacked Rolfe and a fellow officer and then stole a taser that he
fired at Rolfe. Fulton County district attorney Paul Howard is fighting for re-election while under investigation for
"funneling" at least 140,000 city dollars to himself.
Are
Those High-Profile Prosecutions Set Up to Fail? [Scroll down] On the heels of these curious actions
comes the June 12th shooting of Rashard Brooks by police officers in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta,
Georgia. Again you have multiple videos. Mr. Brooks clearly starts the physical altercation attacking both
officers who are attempting to place him under arrest for DUI. Brooks steals one of the officer's Taser and while fleeing,
turns and fires it directly at an officer's face. Under Georgia law, a Taser is considered a deadly weapon.
Fearing for his life, the officer returns fire, striking and killing Brooks. To most of us, it seems like an obvious
case of self-defense. On June 17, I watched in utter amazement as the Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard
held a press conference to announce the charges against the police officer that shot Rayshard Brooks. [...] As I listened to
Howard pile on charge after charge, I began to wonder if he was watching the same set of videos that the rest of us were
looking at? It is evident to me that there is very little likelihood that they are going to get a grand jury
indictment. And if they do, there is even less chance that a jury is going to hand down a conviction.
2
More Arrested In Atlanta Wendy's Arson Following Rayshard Brooks Death. Atlanta Fire Investigators, with
assistance of law enforcement agencies, arrested two additional suspects overnight in connection with the Wendy's
fire — which was started after Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer. Chisom
Kingston, 23, and John Wade, 33 are charged with 1st Degree Arson and have been booked into the Fulton County Jail.
A Will to Overthrow the United
States. On June 12, less than a month after the killing of George Floyd, another white police officer, Garrett
Rolfe, in Atlanta, Georgia, shot and killed a black man, Rayshard Brooks. The police officers were arresting Brooks for
drunk driving, and after a cordial exchange with the officers, he unexpectedly resisted arrest, and seized a Taser from one
of the officers. He began to run, but when he turned and fired the Taser at Rolfe, Rolfe shot and killed him.
Rolfe was dismissed from the police force without due process, and charged with felony murder, which potentially carries the
death penalty. Although video recordings of the event were widely broadcast, District Attorney Paul Howard tried to
claim that Brooks was calm and "cheerful". He added that a Taser is not a deadly weapon — after having said
a few weeks earlier that it was.
Atlanta cop borrows bike, helps catch
skatepark murder suspect. A murder suspect in a shooting near the Old Fourth Ward skatepark was arrested
Tuesday after an Atlanta police officer borrowed a man's bicycle and chased him on the Beltline, authorities said.
Nicholas Fonseca, 21, was wanted in connection with the death of 37-year-old Andrew Scott Callahan, who was shot multiple
times Sunday evening near the skatepark, AJC.com previously reported. [...] Body camera footage released Wednesday [7/1/2020]
shows two officers running in the direction of the suspect before one of them borrowed the bike from a passing cyclist.
[Video clip]
Atlanta
airport sees delays after TSA agent tests positive for coronavirus: reports. Travelers using one of America's
busiest airports faced delays Wednesday after a Transportation Security Administration agent tested positive for the
coronavirus. The diagnosis prompted officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia to shut
down the airport's main security checkpoint for a thorough biohazard cleaning, FOX 5 of Atlanta reported. Long lines
were seen at the airport's North Checkpoint after travelers were rerouted there, according to the station.
Atlanta
Detective Sides With Officer In Defense Filing For Rayshard Brooks Case, Says Brooks Would've Been Charged On 10
Counts. In a defense filing for former Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe, who has been charged with felony
murder in the Rayshard Brooks case, the Atlanta Police Department homicide detective assigned to the case, Al Hogan, sided
with Rolfe, noting that he would have brought 10 charges against Brooks had he survived the incident. "Atlanta PD
detective assigned to the [Rayshard Brooks] investigation says he would have charged Brooks — not Rolfe —
with 10 counts, including multiple felonies," posted Philip Holloway, a legal analyst for WSB Radio. Captioning a
screenshot of Hogan's letter, Holloway noted: "Usually law enforcement are witnesses for the state but this is from a
defense filing."
Why
no outrage? Atlanta shootings surge, but it's not the cops. The exchange was surreal, a sign that the
wheels may be falling off public safety in Atlanta. Fittingly, it happened Monday during the City Council's Public
Safety Committee hearing as council members and interim Police Chief Rodney Bryant were grappling with the unrest plaguing
the city. Councilman Antonio Brown, who represents the district just west of downtown, was getting ready to speak in
the virtual meeting when he told the chief: "I was just notified there was a young man who was just shot and killed at
377 Westchester Boulevard. Can you get a unit out there? He's been on the ground and there's no police who have
come. He's dead already, he's on the ground and the residents have put a sheet over him and the police still haven't
arrived." It sounds like Afghanistan: Can you please come and pick up the body?
Atlanta
man accused of arson, inciting a riot during 1st night of protests granted bond. An Atlanta man charged with
arson, damaging property and inciting a riot during the city's first night of demonstrations last month was granted bond
Friday afternoon [6/26/2020]. Dramerius Jeffries faces several charges in connection with the May 29 protests after he was
seen standing on a burning police car and a defaced sign outside the CNN Center, authorities said. Those charges
include arson, inciting a riot, criminal damage to property, reckless conduct and obstruction of law enforcement by using
threats or violence, Fulton County Jail records show.
No-cop
zones — recipe for destruction based on this vicious lie. The police-free protest zones popping up
across the United States are built upon a vicious lie — namely, the claim that most police departments by their
very nature are thoroughly corrupt and racist and beyond the reach of reform and repair. Nothing could be further from
the truth. And in the upcropping of these free-for-all protest zones, we are witnessing an embrace of lawlessness and
anarchy that can only produce the bitter fruits of death and destruction. Atlanta appears to be the most recent city in
which protesters are attempting to establish such a lawless zone. On Tuesday night [6/23/2020], three men with guns
told Fox News that police were unwelcome in the Atlanta neighborhood surrounding the Wendy's restaurant where a police
officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks on June 12 after the man resisted arrest and pointed a stun gun at police.
Rayshard
Brooks' girlfriend, 29, is arrested for 'setting fire to the Wendy's' where he was shot dead by cops. Rayshard
Brooks girlfriend has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to the Wendy's where he was shot dead by cops on June 12.
Natalie White, 29, was taken into custody in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday afternoon after handing herself into the authorities.
Police issued an arrest warrant for her on June 20 and shared surveillance footage of her inside a store.
'Blue
Flu' as Atlanta Police Walk Out. Will Other Pushbacks Follow? Last week reports trickled in on Wednesday
of Atlanta police synchronizing a refusal to come into work or calling out sick, dubbing the event a "Blue Flu." The walkouts
are suspected to be a response to the murder charge assigned to a fellow officer following the killing of Rayshard Brooks
before an investigation was concluded. Trying to minimize the PR damage, the Atlanta Police Department formally tweeted
that it wasn't a "walkout," but a "call out," adding that they had confidence that operations would be maintained.
Arrest
warrant issued for woman who allegedly set Wendy's in Atlanta on fire. An arrest warrant was issued on Saturday
by Atlanta fire officials for a 29-year-old woman accused of setting fire to a Wendy's restaurant hours after Rayshard Brooks
was seen on surveillance video fatally shot by a police officer. Natalie White was charged with first-degree arson by
Atlanta Fire Rescue Department Fire Investigators for torching the Wendy's on University Avenue on June 13.
Atlanta
investigators identify suspect in Wendy's arson case. Atlanta arson investigators said Saturday they've
identified a female suspect who is being sought in connection with a Wendy's fire that was set after the shooting death of
Rayshard Brooks. The Atlanta Fire Department obtained an arrest warrant for Natalie White, 29, for first-degree arson,
which is considered a felony in the state of Georgia, Fox 5 reported. White's face was captured on video surveillance
and shared during a news conference on Tuesday at a fire station on Manford Road.
Atlanta
police department morale "is down ten-fold," Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says. Police brutality protests in the
Atlanta area intensified this week after 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by a police officer Friday
night. Since the officers involved in the case have been relieved of their duties and charged for Brooks' death, the
police department has seen a surge in fellow officers calling out of work — and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
says police morale "is down ten-fold." In an interview with CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Wednesday [6/17/2020], the mayor said
that police morale around the country is down.
Rayshard
Brooks was a menace to society. On June 12, 2020, Rayshard Brooks, 27, fought with two police officers and
grabbed one of their taser guns. As he ran away, he turned to try to shoot Rolfe, and Rolfe shot him in
self-defense. Brooks had, among other things, four previous charges of obstructing a police officer, cruelty to
children, and domestic violence. It made no sense why Brooks would fight the police until you look at his criminal
history. The following are interactions he had with law enforcement. On 08/22/2016, he was sentenced to twelve
months in jail and to three years' probation on each of the five felony counts, which were to be served concurrently.
On 12/20/2018, an arrest warrant was issued for him regarding his last arrest. The police were called when Brooks was
drunk and fell asleep in his car, blocking traffic at a drive-through restaurant. Being drunk would have been another
probation violation. If he had been arrested, he could have been sent back to jail.
Do Black Feelings
Matter Too Much? Atlanta was burning two weeks ago after a white cop in Minneapolis killed a black criminal who
resisted arrest. Now it's burning again over a white Atlanta cop shooting and killing a black criminal who resisted
arrest. On Friday night [6/12/2020], police responded to a call about a black male who was sleeping in his car while in
the drive-thru lane of a Wendy's restaurant just south of downtown. After police arrived, the suspect, 27-year-old
father of four Rayshard Brooks, allegedly failed a sobriety test. Footage shows him actively fighting the two white
cops who tried to arrest him. He seized a Taser from one of the police and then ran. While running, he turned
back and pointed the Taser at the cop, who responded by shooting him. It's all on film — and none of it
matters. Of course, there's no "national discussion" about the plague of black males resisting arrest, even though
that's been a feature in every last one of these high-profile Race Porn cases. That's because at this moment in the
USA, black feelings matter more than anything else. An unwarranted concern for black feelings — don't EVER
make them angry — may be the wrecking ball that obliterates this country beyond repair.
What Type
of Fool Shoots a Cop With a Taser or Wrestles Him for His Gun? [Scroll down] Well, I watch the video, and
I cannot believe what I am seeing. I see a very peaceful scene in which a cop seems to be restraining or arresting a
fellow, no controversy. And then the fellow suddenly breaks loose from the cop and starts running away. Who does
that? Honestly, what sane person breaks away from a cop restraining him and starts running away? That is
crazy. [...] This is real life, not the movies. Despite the doughnut jokes and the movie scenes, cops are fit
enough to be on patrol. If they fall behind the guy, they have guns. They can summon more cars, helicopters.
What kind of person does this? So then I was really focused on the video, as the possible culprit starts fleeing the
cop. And then I saw something that seemed so crazy that I replayed the video eight times because I kept not
believing what I thought I was seeing. I really did. Eight times. So I kept playing it over and over
again. Get this: the guy, as he is fleeing from the cop, turns around and shoots something at the cop.
It looks like a Star Wars-type saber or something from a kid's video game because it emits this kind of spark of light
being fired at the pursuing cop. Only later did I learn that the guy had grabbed the cop's taser and was firing it at him.
[...] What does one expect will be the outcome?
DA
says cops made no attempt to save Rayshard Brooks, instead kicked him. Let's go to the videotape. After
announcing yesterday that Garrett Rolfe, the officer who shot Rayshard Brooks, would be charged with felony murder, Fulton
County District Attorney Paul Howard introduced what he termed "another important consideration" in the case. He went
on to assert that the two officers involved ignored an "Atlanta policy that requires that the officers have to provide timely
medical attention" to the victim, emphasizing, "for some period of two minutes and twelve seconds, there was no medical
attention applied to Mr. Brooks." [...] It's not clear what video Howard was watching, but it was obviously not the one
that follows, recorded on Rolfe's body cam, which had become free during the struggle. In the clip, provided courtesy
of the Daily Mail, the voice of the officer can be plainly heard repeating over and over, "Mr. Brooks keep
breathing. Keep breathing for me." Stills from the same video show the two officers leaning over the prone body of
Brooks, administering CPR.
Fulton
DA hopes putting cops in jail will keep him in office. It's as plain as the spectacles on Paul Howard's
face: The Fulton County district attorney is bastardizing his office to hang on to his job. Wednesday's news
conference where Howard announced charges against two Atlanta cops was a travesty. It was a wounded candidate using the
death of a man killed by police to weave together a series of bald-faced prevarications and obfuscations to get past a
challenger who has him on the ropes. Before the George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and now Rayshard Brooks
protests and disturbances, Howard's 24-year career as DA looked like toast. There were allegations of sexual
impropriety with subordinates, and the GBI is criminally investigating him for paying himself $195,000 of city of Atlanta
money funneled through a nonprofit he headed, one set up to combat youth violence. A week before the June 9th primary,
Howard moved quickly to criminally charge six Atlanta cops who used Tasers on two college kids.
In Rayshard Brooks'
killing, prosecutor's rush to charge cop raises serious questions. "As many of you know... a Taser is
considered as a deadly weapon under Georgia law." Those are the words of Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard two
weeks ago — before he announced murder charges Wednesday against the fired Atlanta police officer who shot and
killed Rayshard Brooks on Friday during a confrontation outside a Wendy's restaurant. Howard's adamant pronouncement
that a Taser is a deadly weapon came in an unrelated criminal case and was made in front of television cameras and
microphones. His words will surely come back to haunt him as he attempts to prosecute former Officer Garrett Rolfe on
11 criminal charges including felony murder, which carries the death penalty. The law of self-defense in Georgia is
clear: deadly force may be met with deadly force. In fact, deadly force can be used to defend against force that is
likely to cause serious bodily injury.
An
outrageous prosecution in Atlanta. The Fulton County DA's decision to charge officer Garrett Rolfe with murder
struck me as highly dubious. [...] As [Andrew] McCarthy points out, the DA, Paul Howard, Jr., recently deemed a taser a
deadly weapon under Georgia State law. Howard made this statement when it was a police officer's use of a taser that
was in question. But, if anything, a taser is more deadly in the hands of a non-policeman. At least police
officers are trained to use tasers safely. Howard's charging of Rolfe isn't just unfounded, it is transparently
political — an attempt to appease a mob. Why else would he bring the charges so quickly, before the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation has completed its investigation?
Brooks
Shooting: The Political Prosecutor Caves In to the Mob. If you broadcast that you are willing to be
bullied, then you invite the mob to rule. When the mob rules, you get brass-knuckles politics, not justice. You
get a hyper-political county prosecutor, under the corruption microscope as he desperately seeks reelection, filing
trumped-up, mob-driven charges before the actual investigators have a chance to finish their work. You get a capital
murder charge against a police officer who returned fire after being shot at with a taser by a fleeing suspect. A
taser that the fleeing suspect, a criminal with a violent history, stole from the police while they attempted to arrest him
on a well-founded charge. A taser being the very weapon that the same prosecutor, just days earlier, had deemed a
deadly weapon under Georgia State law. But of course, that was then, when the same prosecutor was addressing the use of
tasers by police. This is now, when a criminal used a stolen taser on police. In mob-stricken
Atlanta, the prosecutor says the latter use of deadly force is no threat at all.
Officer
Charged With Felony Murder In Rayshard Brooks Shooting Responds Through Legal Team. Former Atlanta police
officer Garrett Rolfe, involved in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks at a Wendy's parking lot last week, was charged with felony
murder on Wednesday. On Thursday [6/18/2020], Rolfe's legal team released a statement defending his "justified" actions.
Stepmother
Of Police Officer Charged In Rayshard Brooks Shooting Fired From Her Job. Company Releases Statement. Fox
News host Tucker Carlson reported on Thursday evening [6/18/2020] that the stepmother of Atlanta police officer Garrett
Rolfe, the officer who allegedly shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, has been fired from her job at a mortgage company in the
area. "Until today, his stepmother, her name is Melissa Rolfe, was the HR director at a place called Equity Prime
Mortgage in Atlanta, Georgia," Carlson said. "But today, she was let go. She's no longer in that role, apparently
she was fired and her only crime was being officer Rolfe's stepmother."
What
Happens When the Cops Have Had Enough? What would you do if a split-second judgment at your job left you facing
the death penalty? That question was doubtless on the minds of the many Atlanta police officers who called in "sick"
Wednesday evening. Whole zones reportedly went radio silent. The call-out was a response to charges in the case
of officer Garrett Rolfe's killing of Rayshard Brooks, a black man shot while resisting arrest after passing out drunk in a
Wendy's drive through. The shooting resulted in Rolfe's dismissal, the Atlanta police chief's resignation, and an
arsonist setting fire to the Wendy's. But that was not enough for Democratic district attorney Paul Howard, who faces
an uphill reelection battle amid two separate investigations for graft, and who on Wednesday charged Rolfe with 11 counts,
including felony murder. For this, Howard emphasized, Rolfe could face the death penalty.
Georgia
Bureau Of Investigation says wasn't consulted before charges announced in Brooks killing. The Georgia Bureau of
Investigation says it wasn't notified in advance about the criminal charges announced Wednesday on the two Atlanta police
officers charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks and that the bureau's investigation has yet to be
concluded. The charges were announced at a press conference by Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard. "The
GBI was not aware of today's press conference before it was conducted," the bureau tweeted. "We were not consulted on
the charges filed by the District Attorney."
DA
Said Taser Was 'Deadly Weapon' Just Days Ago, Now Says Firing Taser At Cops 'Not A Threat'. The problem with
people who vote for Democrats is that they want everything both ways. They are highly inconsistent. The worst
part is they want you to do as they say, not as they do. For example, the district attorney of Atlanta said just two
weeks ago that a taser was a "deadly weapon." He said this because an officer fired off the taser. However, when
Rayshard Brooks stole a taser from a cop before he was shot a killed, the DA is singing an entirely different tune.
Reports
Pouring in that Atlanta Cops Are Walking Off the Job After Officer Charged With "Felony Murder" of Rayshard
Brooks. It looks like the mayor of Atlanta is starting to get worried about all the cops that are not showing
up for work. It's called the "Blue Flu," and they're protesting because one of their own was just charged with felony
murder and is facing the death penalty for doing his job. Mayor Keisha Bottoms is so desperate to get cops to show up
that she's trying to remind them that she got them a raise.
The
Atlanta Police Arrest is a Political Stunt. Paul Howard, the District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, has
charged Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe with felony murder in the death of Rayshard Brooks. Felony murder could
get the death penalty. There are some details you may not be aware of. First, Paul Howard is under investigation
by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for allegations that Howard has supplemented his income inappropriately through a
non-profit. Second, as a result of the investigation, Howard is fighting for his political life. He is currently
struggling in a runoff election to keep his job. As a result, Howard is playing up the situation to help him win.
Third, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is required to conduct an investigation of any officer-involved shooting.
That investigation has not yet concluded, the report has not been written, and the District Attorney did not consult with or
seek advice from the GBI prior to filing charges. That is highly, highly unusual.
Atlanta
Police Show Why We Need The Second Amendment. Police in Atlanta demonstrated the need for civilians to be able
to protect themselves last night when a large number of officers allegedly failed to report for overnight shifts. This
morning the Atlanta Police Department has disputed the extent of the walkout, telling 11 Alive News that the reports were
"inaccurate," but Atlanta's mayor said last night that there were insufficient officers to patrol the city. "We do have
enough officers to cover us through the night," Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) told CNN. "Our streets won't be any less safe
because of the number of officers who called out." The officers were reportedly upset over the decisions to fire and
prosecute the two officers involved in the death of Rayshard Brooks over the weekend. Brooks's death reignited protests
and violence in the city.
Atlanta
cops continue to call out sick and every officer is given a $500 bonus for civil unrest shifts. Atlanta police
officers are still reportedly calling in sick to work in protest of charges against the cop who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks,
as it's announced every officer will receive a $500 bonus for working amid civil unrest. On Thursday [6/18/2010] the
Atlanta Police Department saw cops continue to call out of work, in protest of 11 charges, including felony murder, announced
Wednesday against fired officer Garrett Rolfe. Despite the call outs, the police force shared a statement insisting
it's able to handle all emergency calls.
Black
ex-cop: Murder charge in Atlanta case 'miscarriage of justice'. Felony murder, possibly leading to the
death penalty, is among 11 charges filed against one of the Atlanta police officers involved in the June 12 death of Rayshard
Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot. "We've concluded, at the time Mr. Brooks was shot, that he did not pose an
immediate threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or officers," Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard
Jr. said at a news conference Wednesday [6/17/2020]. Garrett Rolfe was fired while fellow officer Devin Brosnan has
been reassigned. Brosnan faces three charges, including aggravated assault. Rolfe also was charged with
aggravated assault, with some charges connected with a stray bullet that struck a bystander's occupied vehicle.
Angry Atlanta
police belie department's claim all is well. The Atlanta Police Department denied Thursday [6/18/2020] that
police were not responding to calls in reaction to the charges Wednesday against two officers in the death of a 27-year-old
black man who resisted arrest. However, a police union director confirmed CNN sources saying some officers were
refusing to leave their precincts unless a fellow police officer required backup and others were calling in sick. On
Wednesday, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. announced a charge of felony murder, possibly leading to the death
penalty, among 11 filed against Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe in the June 12 death of Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's
parking lot. Fellow officer Devin Brosnan faces three charges, including aggravated assault. Defenders of Rolfe
argue he fired at Brooks only after Brooks resisted arrest, wrestled with the officers on the ground, fled and fired at them
with a deadly weapon, a Taser he had stolen from the officers.
Atlanta
Police Officers Not Responding To Calls In Multiple Zones, Comes After D.A. Charged Officer With Murder In Rayshard Brooks
Case. Police officers in the Atlanta Police Department are reportedly not responding to calls in multiple zones
which comes after the department acknowledged that they were experiencing a higher than usual number of police officers
calling out prior to the start of their shifts. The news comes after Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard
announced felony murder charges against officer Garrett Rolfe on Wednesday for his involvement in the death of Rayshard
Brooks, who was driving drunk, resisted arrest, got into a physical altercation with police, took a taser from a police
officer, tried to run, and fired a taser in Rolfe's direction. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said that its
investigation into the incident was not complete when the charges were announced and that it was not consulted by Howard.
Atlanta
PD Stage Walkout While Mayor Asks Them To "Keep Their Commitment". Atlanta got its first brief look at what
abolishing the police looks like after their officers walked off the job overnight in protest of charges in the Rayshard
Brooks killing. Entire shifts reportedly walked out and neighboring jurisdictions reportedly refused to assist Atlanta
except to back up officers on the job, although the city tried to downplay the wildcat action.
Atlanta
Police Walking Off the Job After Fulton County Prosecutor Charges Officer Garrett Rolfe. A considerable element
of the Atlanta Police Department are leaving their posts in the wake of the controversial criminal charges filed against
Officer Garrett Rolfe, who was recently fired from the department after a shooting of a man many are claiming was legally
justified. Rolfe shot and killed Rayshard Brooks when attempting to arrest the 27-year old for suspicion of driving
under the influence. The latter had resisted arrest and taken Officer Rolfe's taser device, deploying it against him as
he fled the police before being shot.
Scores
of Atlanta cops call out of work after ex-officer charged in Rayshard Brooks death. The Atlanta Police
Department said it saw an uptick in the number of officers calling out of work on Wednesday night [6/17/2020] —
hours after local prosecutors announced charges against the ex-cop who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks. "The department
is experiencing a higher than usual number of call-outs with the incoming shift," the Atlanta PD tweeted. "We have
enough resources to maintain operations and remain able to respond to incidents." Earlier Wednesday, Fulton County
District Attorney Paul Howard announced felony murder charges against ex-officer Garrett Rolfe — who was fired
Saturday after shooting Brooks twice in the back during a scuffle outside a Wendy's restaurant. Rolfe, 27, will face
11 charges in all, and could be sentenced to death if convicted.
Atlanta
Police Union Head: 'It's the Worst Day in Law Enforcement in the City of Atlanta That's Ever Been'. The fallout
from the Rayshard Brooks' saga continued in Atlanta on Wednesday night on the heels of Fulton County, GA District Attorney
Paul Howard's announcement that former Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe, the suspect in Brooks' death, was facing
11 charges. Vince Champion, southeast regional director of the International Brotherhood of Police officers, who functions
as the head of the police union for the city of Atlanta, acknowledged during an interview with Atlanta's FOX 5 morale within
the Atlanta Police Department had hit a low, which backs up a similar claim made by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on CNN earlier.
Are
we about to see the second Burning of Atlanta? Atlanta citizens had better hope that history does not repeat
itself, this time because Atlanta police officers are so horrified by the eleven charges the Fulton County District Attorney
Paul Howard filed against Garret Rolfe, who shot Rayshard Brooks, they're engaging in a sick out. Without the police,
the whole of Atlanta is a sitting duck for every criminal out there. So here's what we know: Despite the media's
usual claim that a man who died while fighting the police was a beloved family man, Rayshard Brooks might not have been such
a nice person. When he died, he was on probation for a 2014 four-count conviction, with a seven-year prison
sentence: False Imprisonment, Simple Battery/Family, Battery Simple, and Felony Cruelty/Cruelty to Children. He'd
already violated his probation once, which resulted in his going back to prison for a year in 2016. Brooks' criminal
history does not mean he deserved to die. It merely explains why he went from compliant to violent in his interactions
with police: Brooks knew that his being arrested for DUI would send him back to prison for violating his parole.
In his drunken state of mind, he thought he could avoid that fate by fighting the police and running away.
Chick-fil-A's
Dan Cathy asks white Christians to repent of racism. White Christians should repent for racism and fight for
their black brothers and sisters, Chick-fil-A's CEO urged, after weeks of protests over police brutality and the death of
Rayshard Brooks. Cathy spoke about racism in America during a 70-minute roundtable discussion Sunday at Passion City
Church in Atlanta.
Cops
Overcharged in Rayshard Brooks Shooting. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard held a big, fat
showboating press conference yesterday, putting on a mini-trial for the media and the voters, announcing charges for the
officers involved in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks. Former police officer Garrett Rolfe was charged with 11 counts,
including felony murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Outrageous. If you watch the video, what you
see is a perfectly polite and calm exchange, Brooks resisting arrest, putting up a serious fight, attacking the two police
officers in the fight, grabbing an officer's taser, pointing it and trying to use it before he was shot and killed. Was
Rolfe threatened by these actions? I would say so. Why did Brooks resist arrest? That's a provocative move
and a physical one. It's Brooks that escalated the situation, if he had just not resisted arrest he would still be
alive. We need a national conversation on not resisting arrest.
It's
Spreading: Over 40 LAPD Transit Officers Call Out on Wednesday, After 43 Skipped Work on Monday. Fulton County
District Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr. announced charges on Wednesday afternoon [6/17/2020] in the death of Rayshard Brooks last
weekend at a Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta. Brooks was killed by police after resisting arrest, wrestling with the police, punching
one officer in the face, stealing the officer's taser and then firing on the officers. Eleven charges were announced including
felony murder by the officer involved in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks.
It's
A Political Trap — Outgoing Atlanta DA Sets-Up Successor For Problems. Fulton County, Georgia,
District Attorney Paul Howard Jr., held a press conference earlier this afternoon to announce eleven charges against police
officer Garrett Wolfe for the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. The shooting took place at a local Atlanta
Wendys. In what appears to be a decision heavily influenced by local politics, DA Howard is charging officer Garrett
Wolfe with felony murder; an unlawful killing with malice, forethought and specific intent. It looks like Howard is
purposefully making a mess. [...] There is something rather unusual about the way DA Paul Howard framed the encounter between
the police and Rayshard Brooks, because CCTV video and body-cam footage do not support the district attorney's version of
events. Obviously in a courtroom the defense is going to replay the DA statements while they run simultaneous footage
of Mr. Rayshard Brooks resisting arrest, fighting with police and ultimately taking one of the officers' tasers to use
as a weapon.
Former
Atlanta Officer Gets Felony Charges for Killing Rayshard Brooks. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard
Jr. announced Wednesday that former Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe faces felony charges in the fatal shooting of
Rayshard Brooks. According to WSBTV, Rolfe faces "11 counts including felony murder and aggravated assault, criminal
damage to property, and violations to his oath of office." Howard is recommending no bond for the officer, citing his choice
not to provide medical assistance for over two minutes and for kicking Brooks on the ground after the fatal shooting.
'Higher
than usual number' of Atlanta officers call out of work. A "higher than usual" number of Atlanta police
officers failed to show up for work Wednesday night [6/17/2020], hours after the Fulton County District Attorney announced
criminal charges for two accused in the death of Rayshard Brooks. "The department is experiencing a higher than usual
number of call outs with the incoming shift," Atlanta police posted on social media. "We have enough resources to
maintain operations and remain able to respond to incidents."
Rayshard
Brooks was on probation for four crimes — including cruelty to children — and faced going back to
prison if charged with a DUI. Rayshard Brooks was on probation and faced going back to prison if he was charged
with a DUI, DailyMail.com can reveal. It was the fear of incarceration that likely caused Brooks to panic in the face
of imminent arrest and caused him to make a break for it. Brooks was shot and killed on Friday, June 12 when cops
received a 911 call to the Wendy's at University Avenue in Atlanta. Brooks was drunk and asleep at the wheel of his car
and blocking the fast food restaurant's drive-thru lane.
Atlanta
police chief resigns after cops fatally shoot Taser-wielding black man. The victim of a fatal police shooting
in Atlanta had moments earlier fired a Taser at one of the cops chasing him, newly released surveillance footage showed
Saturday [6/13/2020] — as the city's chief of police resigned less than a day after the incident. Early
reports of the altercation that killed Rayshard Brooks, 27, Friday night had indicated Brooks, who was black, was
unarmed. But the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the troubling shooting, released surveillance video
Saturday that, officials said, prove otherwise. In fact, the new video shows a fleeing Brooks turning and firing the
police Taser he'd just grabbed off one of the two cops he'd been grappling with.
Rioting
Protesters Torch Atlanta Wendy's Where Black Man Was Shot and Killed by Police. Rioting protesters set fire to
an Atlanta Wendy's Saturday night. The fast food restaurant was the scene of the deadly police shooting Friday night of
a black man, 27-years-old Rayshard Brooks, as he resisted and fled from arrest with a Taser he stole from an officer.
Brooks, who was being arrested after being found passed out at the wheel of a car in line at the Wendy's drive-thru and
allegedly failed a field sobriety test, was shot by police when he turned and aimed the stolen Taser at an officer as he
fled. Atlanta police Chief Erika Shields resigned Saturday afternoon over the shooting.
Stacey
Abrams previews new talking points: 'man was murdered because he was asleep in a drive-thru'. Democrat Stacey
Abrams argued that there is "legitimacy" to angry riots in Atlanta and claimed police "murdered" a man this weekend "because
he was asleep in a drive-through." The failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate spoke with ABC's George Stephanopolous
about renewed protests amid the death of Rayshard Brooks, the 27-year-old black man who was shot by Atlanta police after
resisting arrest and taking an officer's taser gun.
Here's the rest of the story: Dan
Bongino on police shooting in Atlanta: 'Well, what would you do?'. According to the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation (GBI), police responded to a complaint about a male "parked in the drive thru" at a Wendy's "asleep, causing
other customers to drive around the vehicle." The report said police had the man perform a field sobriety test, which he did
not pass. At that point, officers attempted to take the man, later identified as 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who is
black, into custody. He "resisted and a struggle ensued," which led to an officer attempt to use a taser. Brooks
"grabbed and was in possession of" the taser. In a subsequent follow-up to its original statement and report, the GBI
affirmed: "new videos indicate that during a physical struggle with officers, Brooks obtained one of the officer's Tasers and
began to flee from the scene." "Officers pursued Brooks on food and during the chase, Brooks turned and pointed the taser
at the officer. The officer fired his weapon, striking Brooks," said the GBI report.
Ben
Carson dominates Chris Wallace interview with a flawless answer to every question. While speaking Sunday
morning with Fox News host Chris Wallace, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was repeatedly peppered with
questions that were typical of an anti-Trump administration, anti-conservative anchor. For instance, Wallace brought up
the fatal police shooting of a black suspect in Atlanta. But why would he bring that up with someone who works for HUD,
not the Department of Justice? Nevertheless, Wallace wondered whether the shooting was justified. "Was it
appropriate to use deadly force against someone whose original offense was that he sleep asleep at the drive-through lane at
a Wendy's?" he asked. Carson replied that he's not sure and made it clear an investigation would be needed.
The Editor says...
Fake news alert: The dead man's "original offense," as Chris Wallace knows, was not the offense that got him killed.
Far greater detail: The
Atlanta Wendy's Officer Shooting: Justified Use of Force. [Scroll down slowly past the details] To
reiterate: within a two-second time period, Mr. Brooks transformed his destiny. Mr. Brooks decided to shoot a
taser at Ofc. Rolfe, who was chasing him while also holding out a taser pointed at Mr. Brooks. Only after
Mr. Brooks points and shoots the taser at the officer is when the officer shifts from holding a taser to taking out his
firearm. Mr. Brooks continues to hold out his arm and to point it at the officer, looking back at him, trying to
aim his taser. At this point, the men are pointing arms at each other. Ofc. Rolfe then shoots, causing
Mr. Brooks to drop his arm down. The second and third shots bring Mr. Brooks to the ground. Yes, the
bullets entered Mr. Brooks' back. That is how he was positioned while threatening the officer. But no, the
back entry point of the bullets does not in itself transform the incident into a murder. Ofc. Rolfe acted in
self-defense. Georgia law does not impose on him a duty to retreat.
Black
Georgia sheriff says shooting of Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta police was 'completely justified'. Burke County,
Ga. Sheriff Alfonzo Williams argued Tuesday that Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe was "completely justified" in
using lethal force against 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, whose death has sparked a new round of protests and controversy over
policing and racial discrimination in the U.S. Brooks was shot as he attempted to flee Rolfe and another officer, Devin
Brosnan, who had attempted to arrest Brooks after he failed a sobriety test. Brooks had stolen one of the officers'
Taser and attempted to fire it in Rolfe's direction as he ran. "This is the third law enforcement agency I've been head
of," Williams, who is black, told CNN. "Every agency I've gone to, I've required every officer who carries a Taser to be
Tased with it, so that you understand the incapacitation."
Earlier news from Atlanta with no connection to the shooting of Rayshard Brooks:
Drive-by shooting
in Atlanta neighborhood leaves 2 dead, 5 injured, police say. Two people were killed and at least five others
were injured in a drive-by shooting in an Atlanta-area neighborhood on Saturday, authorities said. Officers responded
to the Edgewood neighborhood in northeast Atlanta around 5:45 p.m. after shots were fired into a crowd of people, FOX5
Atlanta reported. Five victims were found at the scene and rushed to the hospital in serious condition, police said,
according to the station. Two other victims were driven to the hospital before police arrived.
Shots were fired in an Atlanta mall
following a dispute in the food court. Holiday shopping took a violent turn Saturday when shots were fired at
Cumberland Mall in Atlanta following a dispute in the food court, police said. Police responded to the incident at 1:18
p.m., according to a statement from the Cobb County Police Department. Police determined that it was an isolated
incident, and those involved knew each other, the statement said. [Video clip]
The Editor says...
When gunshots erupt at a shopping mall, and a stampede ensues, does it matter if it's an "isolated incident?"
Guns,
gangs, teens, and pizza deliveries from hell. The video that was evidence in a Fulton County criminal case is
disturbing [...] A slight, shirtless boy waves his seemingly massive handgun and enthusiastically recounts robbing and
shooting a pizza delivery man in July 2017. De'Quandre Weaver, age 14 at the time and seemingly without a shred of
remorse or even comprehension of his grave misdeed, gleefully narrates the details of his escapade to gales of off-screen
laughter. Weaver uses sound effects to mimic the crack of the gun and the squeal of the tires, and he employs facial
expressions to show his victim's shock and terror as the man realized he'd been shot. The wounded deliveryman,
19-year-old King Melton, sped away, leaving the robbing crew with two pizzas, cheesy bread and cans of Orange Crush.
Protesters in standoff
with police on Atlanta highway. Protesters in Atlanta, Georgia marching against police brutality have shut down
Interstate-75 and the northbound side of Interstate-85, where a large police presence is preventing them from advancing
further. Meanwhile, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, some arrests have been made in protests there. Thousands of people
rallied in Atlanta, Georgia and Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Friday to protest the recent police-involved deaths of Alton
Sterling and Philando Castile, both African-American men, in Louisiana and Minnesota respectively.
Atlanta protesters in tense, peaceful
standoff with troopers. A group of protestors engaged in a standoff with Georgia State troopers for hours
Friday night. After an earlier protest in and around Centennial Olympic Park ended, this group marched to Williams
Street near the Downtown Connector. State troopers gathered in force to form a line to keep the protestors from
marching onto the highway.
Thousands
of protesters block highway in Atlanta in march against police brutality. Black Lives Matter protesters have
been sprayed with tear gas in Phoenix after a march against police brutality spiraled out of control. Police also fired
bean bag rounds and pepper spray at the protesters, who were seen running away and shielding their eyes.
The Breakdown
Of Law In American Cities. On March 20, 2019 the Atlanta Chief-of-Police announce that stores in Buckhead were
out of luck if they called to report shoplifting. Reasons given were that the city is 300 officers short of what they
need and that shoplifting calls take up too much officers time. There is an hour and a half of paperwork and then the
time required to transport anyone arrested. Apparently other crime is high enough that they have to pick and
choose. So what are store owners and employees supposed to do? Why they should still report it and get it
"counted" according to the Chief-of-Police but "they should also consider hiring and off duty cop that can "make sure the
culprit is made to pay for his crime". [...] So they expect store owners to pay for private protection and enforcement
from law enforcement offers while they are short staffed? Even if businesses could hire an off duty cop, there would
not be enough to police all the stores that need help.
A
Georgia man shot and killed 3 masked teens as they attempted to rob him at his home. A Georgia homeowner shot
and killed three masked teens as they approached his residence with their faces covered, authorities said. The three
victims, one 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds, were all from the area but did not live in the specific neighborhood they were
in, the Rockdale County Sheriff's Office said. The teens approached three residents at the front yard of a home early
Monday morning and attempted to rob them, authorities say.
Homeowner
shoots and kills 3 masked men in possible 'stand your ground' case. A homeowner in Georgia shot and killed
three young masked men at his home early Monday morning, according to Rockdale County Sheriff Eric Levett. Authorities
identified the three deceased individuals as juveniles Monday evening — two 16-year-olds and one 15-year-old —
but have not released their names. The sheriff's office told ABC News it waited to release information about the teens,
all from Conyers, Georgia, until all three families were notified.
Serial
rape suspect found after trying to join the police force hunting him. Cops hunting a serial rapist in Georgia
found him right under their noses — when he tried to join their police force. Kenneth Thomas Bowen III, 24,
only came into the spotlight when he joined the Clayton County Police Department's academy in 2018. He was fired after just a
few months for lateness and constant lying. Officers later realized Bowen had been named a "suspicious" person after at least
one of eight sex attacks that terrorized Jonesboro since 2015, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Detectives soon
noticed the "striking resemblance" between Bowen's photo and police sketches, police said at a press conference.
Georgia
businessman shot and killed in CVS parking lot while waiting for wife to finish errands. Georgia businessman
and philanthropist was shot and killed in a CVS parking lot while he was waiting for his wife to complete her errands inside
the pharmacy, police said. Jack Hough was sitting inside his parked car just outside the Gainesville store around 7:45 p.m.
when the shooting occurred, according to the Gainesville Times. Police believe the suspect approached the 73-year-old Air
Force veteran in a bid to rob and carjack him.
Carjack
suspect sought in death of Georgia businessman, philanthropist, Air Force vet. A search was underway in the
Atlanta area this weekend for a suspect in the shooting death of a well-known Georgia businessman and philanthropist who was killed
Thursday night [2/7/2019] in an apparent carjacking attempt, authorities said. Jack Hough, 73, was sitting in his car while
his wife shopped in a pharmacy when the suspect approached him around 8 p.m., according to reports. After a brief
struggle, Hough was shot in the chest. [...] Gainesville, located about 55 miles northeast of Atlanta, has seen a
spike in gun-related crimes in recent weeks.
Georgia
man convicted of murdering grieving man who bumped into him at bar. A Georgia man was convicted Thursday of
murdering a grieving man who "accidentally bumped into" him at a bar last year. Torry Bowman, 33, was found guilty in
the October 2017 killing of 25-year-old Alec Price, who had been mourning the death of his grandmother, the Fulton County
District Attorney's Office announced.
Four
women wanted for pummeling Applebee's waitress in Georgia, police say. Georgia police were on the hunt Friday
[7/13/2018] for four women who they say started an all-out brawl at an Applebee's after their waitress bumped up against one
of their knees. The wild fight was captured on surveillance footage late Tuesday night at one of the restaurant's
locations in McDonough. "One suspect grabs a knife and cuts her in the arm and the other suspect punches her,"
McDonough Police Det. T.F. Spangenberg told FOX5 Atlanta.
This
brave sixth grader recorded her teacher's ugly rant about Trump and minorities and told her story. A Georgia
middle school teacher's rant about President Trump forced the school district to respond to an "extremely unfortunate"
incident that was brought to light by a student. The Henry County school district responded to an audio recording of
sixth grade teacher Johnetta Benton which was captured by one of her students at Hampton Middle School. Josie Orihuela
began recording the audio once Benton began her lecture as she was introducing a video to celebrate Black History
Month. The teacher reportedly gave students a 15-minute monologue about how "America has never been great for
minorities," taking a jab at Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again." [Video clip]
Sixth-grade
teacher delivers 15-minute rant claiming Trump's MAGA slogan is a call to bring segregation back. A sixth-grade
teacher has delivered a shocking classroom rant claiming that President Donald Trump wants a return to segregation and
accused white students of being the progeny of 'European' mass murderers. Student Josie Orihuela recorded the incident
last month at Hampton Middle School near Atlanta, where social studies teacher Johnetta Benton was delivering a lesson for
Black History Month. Josie began recording just after Benton turned off a film the class was watching and pronounced
that that 'Make America Great Again' could be a precursor to 'trying to bring back segregation,' the student told Fox News.
Atlanta
man arrested outside Pizza Hut with camouflaged mask and a small arsenal. An Atlanta man was arrested outside a
Pizza Hut in possession of three handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition according to Griffin Police Department.
Jeremy Arnez Eppinger, 26, was noticed by a witness who told police he was acting suspicious, hiding behind a retaining wall
and wearing a camouflaged mask[.] He continued to look up at the Pizza Hut and crouch back down into hiding, the
witness told Griffin Police, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A few moments later, Eppinger jumped over the wall,
pulling a handgun from his waist. As Eppinger walked towards the restaurant with gun in hand, he spotted the witness
attempting to flee.
Alleged
Gwinnett cop killer [was] found hiding in shed, police say. The man accused of killing a Gwinnett police
officer was found hiding in a wooden shed wielding a lawn mower blade and was shot and killed after he refused to obey police
commands, authorities said. After receiving information from a tipster on Tafahree Maynard's whereabouts, 75-90 police
officers descended on a neighborhood in unincorporated Snellville, set up a perimeter and went house to house, Gwinnett
Police Chief Butch Ayers said at a press briefing. After finding Maynard, police initially used a Taser. They
shot after determining he had was armed with a mower blade. Police said the officers were five to six feet away from
Maynard when he was shot. "The danger to the community is over," Ayers said.
Atlanta-area
officer fatally shot; one suspect held, another sought, authorities say. Authorities outside Atlanta said
Saturday [10/20/2018] that they had arrested one man and were looking for another in connection with the shooting death of a
Gwinnett County police officer who was fired upon while responding to the scene of "a suspicious vehicle" hours earlier.
A suspect identified as Isaiah Pretlow, 19, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service and was charged with aggravated assault
in the death of Officer Antwan Toney, 30, police said at a news conference.
Daughter
struck by subway train while trying to save mother. Horrified subway riders rushed to save a woman pushed in front of a commuter train in
Atlanta, and the woman's daughter was struck by the train while trying to help, witnesses said.
Man
who pushed mother onto tracks at MARTA station identified. MARTA police have identified the man who allegedly
pushed a woman onto the tracks at the Midtown MARTA Station Sunday, prompting a chaotic scene that ended with the woman's
daughter critically wounded. Police identified the suspect as Christopher Patrick Brooklin, 28. He is charged with
aggravated assault and battery in a public transit station.
McDonald's
patron barricades himself in bathroom, rips urinal off wall during police standoff. A man was taken into police
custody at a McDonald's near Atlanta, Ga. after barricading himself in the bathroom Tuesday. Derrick Hall, 36, caused a
standoff with police and a SWAT team at a Gwinnett County location of the fast-food chain, after employees reported he had a
knife and was possibly doing drugs, according to Fox 5. Officers tried to get Hall to surrender peacefully but were
unsuccessful. He began threatening the authorities and trashing the bathroom, pulling a urinal off the wall and breaking
a water pipe. Hall is also accused of swinging his knife at the police.
People like this should be locked up for life. Ex-con
killed teen sister for taking too long in the bathroom: detective. An ex-con stabbed his 15-year-old sister 53 times last
month, killing her, because she took too long in the bathroom, a detective testified Monday [7/2/2018]. Gavin Henderson, 27, moved in
last year with his mother and siblings at the Lacota Apartments in Dunwoody, Georgia, after being released from a Florida prison following a
several-year stint for violent crimes. Henderson turned to his relatives because he had no other options, a Dunwoody Police Department
detective testified, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But Henderson soon had alarming physical confrontations with his family,
including pulling a knife on one of his sisters and a deadly dispute with another, Keaira Henderson, on June 18 — when he needed to
use the bathroom and she apparently wasn't finished, Detective Jesus Moldonado testified.
Elementary
school teacher charged with 2016 gang-related murders of 2 children. A Georgia elementary school teacher was
charged last week with the murder of two children in a 2016 gang-related attack. Michael De'Sean White, 26, who works
at Toney Elementary School in DeKalb County, was arrested Friday and charged with the killing of 11-year-old Tatiyana Coates
and 15-year-old Daveon Coates. Clayton County police Maj. Tina Daniel told WSB-TV a police sketch of a man seen at
the murder scene drawn by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation helped authorities make a case against White.
Customer
punches store clerk over price of hair weave. Police near Atlanta, Georgia are looking for a woman who
allegedly attacked a store clerk over the price of a hair weave. Surveillance video shows the customer throwing
merchandise and punches in the Duluth store. Venus Beauty Supply workers say the Wednesday night confrontation began
after customer Melissa Roper and her daughter didn't like the price of a weave, and the lack of customer service they
apparently wanted. Roper's daughter threw the product at the clerk, then the clerk threw it right back.
Several
shot at Atlanta train station. The shooting took place at about 4:30 p.m. [4/13/2017] at West Lake Station, according to
WSB-TV. All of the victims were in their 30s, according to WSB. A suspect has been detained and there is an ongoing investigation,
the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) said in a statement, according to Reuters.
Customer
unsatisfied with 'under-seasoned fries' throws food at workers. Clayton County Police Det. Sefan Schindler told WSB-TV Wednesday
[3/15/2017] the woman was upset because she said there wasn't enough seasoning salt on her French fries at a Zaxby's restaurant in suburban Atlanta.
Woman
shoots, kills home invasion suspect. A suspect in an alleged home invasion is dead after being shot by the
owner of the home early Friday morning [9/16/2016]. [...] Gwinnett County Police Corporal Deon Washington tells CBS46 News
that the suspect, identified as 28 year-old Antonio Leeks, kicked in the door of the home and awoke the homeowner.
After grabbing her handgun, the homeowner went to investigate and saw three males coming through the door.
Woman Shoots Man
Trying to Break Into Warner Robins Home. A woman shot a man trying to break into her home in Warner Robins
early Friday morning [9/16/2016]. [...] 27-year-old Martiez Holmes is charged with criminal attempt to commit burglary and
giving a false name. He was released from the hospital Friday.
Police: Georgia man killed in shootout
with US marshals. A man suspected of shooting at Atlanta officers last week was shot and killed Friday [8/5/2016] after getting into a
shootout with authorities trying to arrest him, a police spokesman said.
Black
Lives Matter protesters interrupt Hillary rally. Protesters with the Black Lives Matters movement interrupted a
Hillary Clinton rally in Atlanta on Friday [10/30/2015], where she planned to unveil her criminal justice reform plan.
Members of the civil rights group in the crowd chanted "Black Lives Matters" and sang hymns throughout her speech.
Georgia
teens storm school bus, attack elementary school kids. A pack of teens stormed onto a Georgia school bus and
attacked several elementary students on board — including one who needed to be hospitalized, according to a new
report. The four assailants — an 18-year-old non-student, a high school student and two middle school
students — boarded the bus Monday morning when it made a stop only about a mile from Snapfinger Elementary School
in Decatur, WSB-TV 2 reported. Several students were attacked, and one was taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
hospital, school officials told the station.
Young
Thug accused of having 4 types of drugs, tons of cash in DeKalb. Atlanta rapper Young Thug was arrested over
the weekend in DeKalb County after police said they found him and two other men in a car with drugs and nearly $50,000 in
cash. The artist, whose real name is Jeffrey Lamar Williams, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to
distribute and possession of Xanax, codeine and ecstasy, along with co-defendant Cedric Jones. They were also charged
with possession of guns while breaking drug laws. The arrests were Sunday [9/24/2017] in Brookhaven.
3
arrested in Atlanta fire underneath interstate bridge. Three people have been arrested in connection with the
raging fire that collapsed a portion of Interstate 85 a few miles north of downtown Atlanta, crippling a major traffic artery
in a city already known for dreadful rush-hour congestion.
Suspects
connected to I-85 fire, collapse identified. Three people have been arrested after a massive fire under I-85
caused a huge chunk of the roadway to collapse Thursday, multiple officials confirm. The fire began in the middle of
rush hour and brought Atlanta traffic on both sides of the busy Interstate to a complete standstill, as giant flames and
plumes of black smoke billowed. It left motorists stranded on the the Interstate for hours as Georgia State Patrol
Troopers worked to divert traffic and clear the roadway.
Atlanta
bridge fire suspect was smoking crack before blaze began, warrant says. The homeless man accused of starting a
fire that caused a section of a major Atlanta interstate to collapse was smoking crack before the blaze erupted, his arrest
warrant shows. Basil Eleby, 39, was charged with first degree arson and criminal damage to property in connection to
the fire, and is being held in Fulton County jail on a $200,000 bond. Eleby has been arrested 20 times since 2000,
mostly on drug possession and drug trafficking charges, according to Fulton County jail records.
Gladys Knight's son
accused of tax evasion as restaurants raided. Gladys Knight's Chicken and Waffles, an Atlanta dining
institution that features Southern favorites and is named after the famed singer, was raided on Tuesday after Georgia's
Department of Revenue accused the owner — Knight's son — of theft and tax evasion. Shanga
Hankerson, Knight's son and the owner of the three Atlanta-area restaurants, "is accused of stealing over $650,000" in sales
taxes and withholding taxes owed to the state, the agency said in a news release. "After penalties and interest the
total exceeds $1 million," the department said.
Two
murder suspects, including a 14-year-old boy, shared photos brandishing a gun hours 'before the robbery and shooting death of
a pizza delivery man'. Disturbing Facebook photos showing two murder suspects, including a 14-year-old boy,
holding a gun that is believed to have been used in a pizza delivery driver's murder in Georgia were presented during a court
hearing in the case on Friday [2/25/2016]. Reginald Lofton, 14, and Jermaine Young, 21, are accused of robbing and murdering
Papa John's pizza delivery man Shane Varnadore on March 1 at an apartment complex in Gwinnett County, WSB-TV reported.
Young and Lofton, who is being charged as an adult, face charges of felony murder, aggravated assault and armed robbery in Varnadore's
shooting death. Varnadore, 28, was found dead from an apparent gunshot wound just before midnight, WSB-TV reported.
Nine arrested in
giant street brawl that killed teen. Nine people are behind bars in Georgia charged with murder after a massive street
fight caught on video. Police are investigating what sparked the brawl in a small town near Augusta that left a teenager
dead. David Begnaud reports from outside Glenn Hills High School in Augusta, where some of the suspects are enrolled.
9 face murder
charges in recorded after-school brawl in Georgia. It started out as a fistfight. Two girls —
emboldened by bystanders alternately yelling out support or derision — went toe-to-toe in the residential street
before they tumbled to the ground. It only got uglier from there. A two-minute cell phone video shot by a witness last
week in Hephzibah, Georgia, captures the chaos as others join the fray, some wielding bats or pipes, others their fists. The
driver of a black car targets two young men, narrowly misses them, and backs up on the subdivision lawn, striking another vehicle.
In the end, an 18-year-old boy was mortally wounded.
The Editor says...
Notice that the bystanders all have cell phones with internal video cameras, and every gang fight is televised on the internet.
Not to identify the suspects, of course, but to generate internet fame for the photographers. The lower class is preoccupied and
driven by celebrity and fame.
A Deadly Fight Involving Up To 50 Teens Started
With One 15 Year Old Girl. Authorities say nine people have been charged with murder and another is being
sought after a teenager was stabbed to death in a massive, chaotic brawl that involved baseball bats, pipes, knives and
other weapons near Augusta.
Rapper
Bankroll Fresh killed at recording Atlanta studio. Fulton County Medical Examiner senior investigator Tami
Sedivy-Schorder says 28-year-old Trentavious White, also known as rapper Bankroll Fresh, was found shot outside Street Execs
Studio around 11 p.m. Friday [3/4/2016].
Atlanta girl shot during robbery for her
hoverboard. WSB-TV reported Sunday [1/3/2016] the bullet came out the girl's side after it struck her in the back. Her brother Doryan
Sanford said his sister was riding the hoverboard she got for Christmas and didn't realize she had been targeted by robbers. "He just said,
'Give it up,' and I said, 'What?' He pulled out a gun and put it to my face," Sanford told the station. "I pushed him back. That's when
I tried to close the door and that's when the bullet came through and hit my sister." [...] There was no word on a description of the robbery suspects.
MLK's sister-in-law punched
in face during attempted carjacking. "[The assailant] demanded her car and told her he was going to bust her in her mouth,"
said friend Lena Reid Morrow. Morrow said King refused to hand over her car. "Before she could say anything, he had hit her in
the mouth and was looking to see where her purse was in the car. But he could not see that, so he turned and hit her again and by
this time she was screaming," Morrow said. Police say the young male came from a wooded area nearby. They say he disappeared
back through the trail that leads to three different communities.
Father
shot three times in front of his wife and children by teen robbers who knocked on their door claiming to have a flat
tire. An Atlanta couple have told of the terrifying moment four men pretending to have had car troubles burst
into their home and robbed them at gunpoint, shooting the father-of-two in front of his children. Mike and Whitney Lash
had just returned to their house with their two young children on August 16 when the men knocked on their door.
Mr Lash answered the door, and the men said they had just moved down the street but had a flat tire and wanted to
borrow a jack, but Mrs Lash felt something was amiss from the start.
Woman
killed in Atlanta police shootout had long arrest record. Despite being handcuffed and
in the back of a patrol car, a 26-year-old woman managed to get one hand free and use a stolen gun
to fire three shots at two officers, Atlanta police Chief George Turner said Friday [5/1/2015].
Rapper
Slim Dunkin gunned down outside Atlanta recording studio. Police say the Detroit native, whose
real name is Mario Hamilton, was shot in the chest in after getting into an argument before the shoot.
Investigators said there were at least 20 people at the scene, each one with a different story.
17-Year-Old
Anthony Stokes Home Invasion, Shooting, Carjacking — Dies During Police Chase. The
story of Anthony Stokes didn't start the day he died after crashing a stolen car into a pedestrian and sign
post. Nor did his story start moments earlier when he kicked down the door of an elderly Roswell Georgia
woman and shot at her as she sat on the couch during his home invasion. The public story of Anthony Stokes
actually began a few years prior, in 2013, when he was diagnosed with an enlarged heart, a terminal condition if
he did not receive a heart transplant.
Police
use pepper spray to break up fight among Nike shoppers. The release of Nike's retro Air Jordans
caused a frenzy at stores across the nation early Friday [12/23/2011], with hundreds of people lining up for a
chance to buy the classic basketball shoes and rowdy crowds breaking down doors and starting fights in at least
two cities.
Race
for New Air Jordan Sneakers Turns Ugly. The quest for some limited edition sneakers took an ugly
turn early Friday morning outside the Mall at Stonecrest in Lithonia. DeKalb police say several people
were arrested , including one woman who left two young children in her car, after the new Nike Air
Jordan 11 Concords went on sale.
Area mall
shoppers squabble over Air Jordan shoes. Michael Jordan reigned supreme once more Friday in the
world of sneaker craziness, as scuffles broke out and police were called to three malls in the Charlotte area
when hundreds of sometimes-unruly shoppers showed up for a wildly popular Air Jordan shoe. Similar scenes
were reported across the country as shoppers were arrested near Atlanta, a shot was fired in a mall near San
Francisco, a man was stabbed in New Jersey, and police in the Seattle area used pepper spray on a crowd outside
a shoe store.
The blacks blame everybody but themselves for their lawless behavior. Local
Activists Call for Air Jordan Changes. Local activists and ministers are taking on one of the world's
top sports brands. They're calling on Nike and Michael Jordan to change the way they sell the highly sought
after Air Jordan sneakers. This comes after the frenzy over the limited release last week turned violent in
some cities. Now, community leaders say the people at the top should take some responsibility.
Atlanta
police have warrant for suspect in June attack on bicyclist. Atlanta police issued a
warrant Wednesday [7/16/2014] for an Atlanta man on attempted murder and other charges for the vehicular
assault on a local bicyclist June 9. Police are seeking Joseph Alan Lewis, 19, as a suspect
in the attack on Gregory T. Germani, 50, in the Morningside neighborhood. Lewis' girlfriend
Shanelle Woodard, 22, also of Atlanta, was arrested Wednesday and charged with tampering with evidence.
17-year-old boy arrested
after 5 shot near Atlanta high school, report says. Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy and charged him with
five counts of aggravated assault after he allegedly shot and injured five people near a southwest Atlanta high school on
Tuesday, according to a published report. [...] Parent Shavien Dennis told reporters outside the hospital that her 17-year-old
daughter, Tekevious Redding, a Therrell senior, was shot and was still being treated for a bullet lodged in her leg.
Woman
pleads guilty; gets life in killing of KSU student. When road rage between two carloads of people
spilled into a Cobb County apartment complex, another woman was called to help and grabbed a gun. She was
already a convicted felon on probation. Sparkles Lashayla Lindsey didn't know the woman she shot, according
to police. But hours later, a 21-year-old Kennesaw State University student was dead. On Tuesday
[2/10/2015], Lindsey pleaded guilty in the October 2013 shooting death of Kimberly Faith Kilgore and was
sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole.
Police:
3 shot Clark Atlanta student, then took his Nikes. A Clark Atlanta University student
is the latest victim of deadly scams involving the same website: Craigslist. And the death is one
more reminder of the potential dangers with the online site, according to police. James Jones
Jr., 21, was attempting to buy an iPhone 6 off the site late Monday when he agreed to meet the
alleged seller in a Marietta neighborhood. Instead, he was confronted by three men who shot him
twice, robbed him of his Nike tennis shoes, and left him to die in the front seat of his car, police said.
Hundreds
attend service for Clark Atlanta student killed buying iPhone. James Earl Jones Jr.
was a scholar. [...] On Feb. 2, Jones posted on Facebook that he wanted an iPhone 6. One week later,
he was attempting to buy the phone he saw advertised on Craigslist when he was shot and killed in Cobb County,
according to police. Jones agreed to meet the alleged seller Monday night in a Marietta neighborhood.
Instead, he was confronted by three men who shot him twice, robbed him of his Nike tennis shoes, and left him to
die in the front seat of his car, police said. Jones, 21, was dead when officers arrived.
Officials
ID construction worker killed confronting man in Kroger lot. A construction worker was
shot and killed outside a Kroger store in Atlanta on Tuesday [3/10/2015] by an assailant apparently trying to
steal his work truck, police told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The victim was identified as
Joshua R. Richey, 38, of Hayden, Ala., the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office said Tuesday
night. Richey was shot in the chest outside the store at 725 Ponce de Leon. The market
has been called the "Murder Kroger" because of crime in the area.
Search
for missing Atlanta Muslim child leads to discovery of a makeshift armed Muslim compound in New Mexico. The
detective forwarded the message to Taos County, New Mexico Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe, who executed a search warrant Friday [8/3/2018] on a
makeshift compound that authorities believed was operated by armed Muslim extremists. After a standoff with two metro Atlanta
men inside the heavily armed encampment, officers arrested and Siraj Ibn Wahhaj — the fugitive wanted in the child
abduction case as well as Lucas Allen Morten. But they weren't the only ones at the property that had no running water,
plumbing or electricity.
Moms
arrested after 11 children found in 'filthy' New Mexico compound with armed Muslim 'extremists,' cops say. The
three mothers of the 11 malnourished children found living in a filthy New Mexico compound were arrested and charged Sunday
along with two men described as armed Muslim "extremists" after authorities raided the property in search of a 4-year-old
boy. Jany Leveille, 35; Hujrah Wahhaj, 38, and Subhannah Wahhaj, 35, were arrested and charged with neglect and child abuse
of the children. The three women, who were found at the compound in Amalia, initially refused to answer any questions.
Dancing
surgeon accused of leaving patient brain-damaged. A plastic surgeon who filmed herself singing and dancing
around the operating table as she performed procedures was accused of leaving a patient with "catastrophic" brain damage.
Dr. Windell Davis Boutte uploaded over 20 clips of herself prancing around next to patients while singing along to
hip-hop tunes. She even sliced someone open for the camera as "Cut It" by O.T. Genasis blared out in the
background. Icilma Cornelius suffered heart failure after being pushed into having a pre-wedding tummy tuck at Boutte's
clinic in Lilburn, Georgia, in February 2016, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Craigslist
seller missing after meeting would-be buyer, foul play suspected. Atlanta police suspect foul play in the case
of a missing man who posted a Craigslist ad for a vintage truck and disappeared after meeting a would-be buyer. Police
found the truck belonging to 44-year-old Vicente Cruz in a motel parking lot with blood inside, WGCL-TV reported Saturday [5/6/2017].
The Editor says...
Craigslist would function as intended only among moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the transactions of any other.
UPS
fires 250 drivers in New York over walk out, report says. The shipping giant Monday [3/31/2014]
fired these employees because they walked off the job in February in protest over the dismissal of a fellow
Queens employee who worked for the company for 24 years, The [New York] Daily News reported. The
report said 20 workers were fired after their shifts and 230 were told they will be fired once replacements
are in place.
UPS
dismisses 250 Queens drivers after they protested against long-time employee's dismissal. UPS
has delivered a special message to 250 of its Queens drivers: You're fired! The Atlanta-based
company is booting 250 of its unionized drivers from its Maspeth facility because they walked off the job
for 90 minutes Feb. 26 to protest the dismissal of a long-time employee, UPS told the [New York]
Daily News. Twenty employees were terminated Monday after their shifts — and the remaining
230 notified that they'll be canned as soon as replacements are trained, a company spokesman said.
Democratic
Debate Winners and Losers. MSNBC went full "woke" with their production of Wednesday night's [11/20/2019] primary
debate. They held the event at Tyler Perry's historic Atlanta film studios — a seeming nod to the Black
community although they perplexingly left out nearly any mention of Black voter issues — and they had an all women
panel of moderators, led by Rachael Maddow. Again, there was a perplexing lack of questions surrounding the issues
you'd think most Democrat-voting women would be curious about... outside of the sacred abortion questions.
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