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Updated at 4:50 p.m. Wednesday The Georgia lawmaker who was arrested after knocking on the door of the governor’s office as he made televised comments in support of the sweeping, controversial new election law he’d just signed will not be charged, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Rep. Park Cannon, an Atlanta Democrat, was arrested March 25 and charged with obstruction of law enforcement and disruption of the General Assembly. She was released from jail later that evening. “While some of Representative Cannon’s colleagues and the police officers involved may have found her behavior annoy...

© 11Alive Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon (D) will not be prosecuted following her arrest in late March during Gov. Brian Kemp Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Wednesday that she would not proceed with two felony charges against Cannon who was arrested after loudly knocking on the door of Kemp's state office while he signed a sweeping piece of voting legislation, S.B. 202, into law on March 25, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  The newspaper further reported that Willis said the case surrounding Cannon's arrest was closed, and would not be presented to a grand...

Fulton DA will not prosecute Rep. Park Cannon over Georgia voting law arrest By FOX 5 Digital Team Published  State Rep. Park Cannon speaks out Rep. Cannon was arrested after knocking on the door as Gov. Kemp signed the controversial election reform bill into law. ATLANTA - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis says she won’t prosecute state Rep. Park Cannon after the lawmaker was arrested for knocking on Gov. Brian Kemp's door during the signing of Georgia's controversial new voting law. State police arrested Cannon, a Democrat who represents Atlanta, after she said she wanted to s...

Atlanta Democrat Park Cannon was arrested last month after she repeatedly knocked on the door of Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s office as he prepared to sign a controversial bill overhauling Georgia’s elections. State Rep. Park Cannon, D-Atlanta, is placed in handcuffs by Georgia State Troopers after being asked to stop knocking on a door that leads to Gov. Brian Kemp’s office at the Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta on March 25, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) ATLANTA (CN) — An Atlanta-area district attorney declined Wednesday to prosecute a Georg...

‘We Cannot Stop Knocking’: Rep. Park Cannon Calls Supporters to Action After DA Declines to Press Charges for Knocking on Gov. Brian Kemp’s Door Colin Kalmbacher Fani Willis has declined to prosecute a Black member of the Georgia General Assembly who was arrested by a group of white Georgia State Patrol officers for knocking on Governor Brian Kemp’s (R) door late last month. “After reviewing all of the evidence, I have decided to close this matter,” Willis said in a statement. “It will not be presented to a grand jury for consideration of indictment, and it is ...