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Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim, two students at historically Black colleges in Atlanta, were confronted by police in downtown Atlanta in 2020.

An Atlanta district attorney has dropped the battery and aggravated assault charges made against the six officers who forcefully arrested Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young.

On bodycam footage, officers are shown confronting two young Black adults, Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young, after the pair were out past curfew following protests over George Floyd's death.

An Atlanta district attorney has dropped the battery and aggravated assault charges made against the six officers who forcefully arrested Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young.

A group of officers will not be prosecuted in connection with a 2020 confrontation involving two students who were surrounded by police and shocked with stun guns over their alleged failure to obey a curfew implemented in the days after George Floyd’s death.

On Sunday, the system announced that after discussions with Michael Laliberte, it was determined that it was "in the best interest of all parties" for him to voluntarily resign.

Michael Laliberte, due to start in August as president of the University of Maine at Augusta, has stepped down, but will receive his $205,000 salary for at least a year.

The former Connecticut governor has received criticism, votes of no-confidence, from...

District Attorney Pro Tempore Samir Patel said the officers' use of force was in line with department policy.

In recent weeks, faculty on campuses in Augusta, Farmington, and the University of Southern Maine have voted no-confidence in Chancellor Dannel Malloy, and faculty in Machias, Orono and Presque Isle have supported those votes.