The firings of two Atlanta police officers over an incident in which two college students were pulled from a car in traffic during a large protest against police brutality have been overturned.
The Civil Service Board found the city did not follow its own personnel procedures, which resulted in the officers being deprived of due process because they were not given proper notification or adequate opportunity to respond. The board ordered Monday that the dismissals of Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner be revoked.
Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim, rising seniors at historically Black colleges in Atlanta, were stuck in traffic after a curfew declared by the mayor May 30 during protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota when officers confronted them.
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Fulton DA transfers Rayshard Brooks case to Georgia Attorney General
By FOX 5 Digital Team
Published
District Attorney Fani Williams transferred the cases to the Georgia Attorney General s Office.
ATLANTA - Recently elected Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has transferred the case against a former Atlanta police officer charged in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks to the Office of the Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr.
Brooks, 27, was shot and killed the night of June 12 at a Wendy s restaurant along University Avenue in southeast Atlanta. The officers were called over complaints of a car blocking the restaurant’s drive-thru lane.
This week, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, issued the following statement following the release of President Trump’s phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the President suggested, pressured, and encouraged Raffensperger to take various actions to help overturn President-elect Biden’s and Vice President-elect Harris’ victory in the state of Georgia.
Trump s Outrageous Georgia Phone Call: 5 Questions (And Answers)
The president s outrageous phone call to the Georgia secretary of state may violate federal and state law, and has sparked calls for criminal investigations by Georgia election officials and members of Congress.
ByVersha Sharma
Published on 1/4/2021 at 4:20 PM
Getty Images | President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit on December 8, 2020 in Washington, DC.
Getty Images | President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit on December 8, 2020 in Washington, DC.
In a nearly hour-long phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state, President Donald Trump continued his assault on democracy with increasingly desperate and possibly illegal attempts to overturn the results of the November election.