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On April 12, DeKalb County (East of metro Atlanta) police shot into the home of Matthew Zadok Williams while he was behind closed doors and hiding behind an ottoman. The police left him to bleed to death inside his own home. In the aftermath, a doctor stated that Williams’ life could have been saved had the police administered medical aid.
A neighbor called the police on Monday, April 12 saying a man with a knife had broken into an abandoned home. The police arrived onsite around 4 pm under the impression that Williams was homeless. The family later indicated that Williams owned the home and had lived there for 15 years.
MARIETTA, Ga.
President Biden marked the 100th day of his presidency at an outdoor rally Thursday evening in suburban Atlanta, the locale that not only propelled him to the White House last fall, but enabled his administration’s early success.
Taking the stage amid a din of honking horns and looking out on a vast blacktop of more than 300 parked cars, Biden stood before large banners that read “Getting Back On Track” as he celebrated the progress made against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden highlighted the doubling of his initial goal of administering 100 million vaccine shots in his first 100 days, and he touted the $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan he enacted in March that delivered $1,400 direct relief checks to millions of Americans.
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Biden and other speakers pointed to not only his win in Georgia in the Nov. 3 presidential election, but also the election of Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, both Democrats, to the U.S. Senate on Jan. 5. The assertion was that Democratic wins in Georgia allowed Biden to find success in his first 100 days.
Biden highlighted higher-than-expected COVID-19 vaccination levels, legislative successes such as passage of the American Recovery Plan and the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, and rejoining the Paris Climate Accord. He also laid out some of the things left to do, such as passing a new voting rights act named for late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.