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ARE THE WHEELS COMING OFF IN ATLANTA?
Powerline ^ | POSTED ON JUNE 29, 2020 | BY PAUL MIRENGOFF

Posted on 06/29/2020 2:37:31 PM PDT by Hojczyk

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Atlanta’s interim Police Chief Rodney Bryant was about to address the City Council on the unrest plaguing the city when a councilman informed Bryant:

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.

This incident isn’t the only sign that the wheels are coming off in Atlanta. From the same source:

On June 13, as angry protesters milled around the south Atlanta Wendy’s the day after Rayshard Brooks was shot in the parking lot by a cop — and hours before the restaurant was burned down — there was a wild shootout in the Edgewood neighborhood in east Atlanta. Five people were wounded and two were killed. Residents reported hearing perhaps 40 gunshots.

Also:

Earlier this month, the owners of a bar in the popular Edgewood Avenue nightlife district posted a photo online of the business’s window smashed by a bullet. They said they felt unsafe and were closing “until the city gets its #@&! together.” What caused this? Eight people were shot nearby in six days.

And there is this, regarding drive-by shootings:

Friday in south Atlanta, police found the body of 80-year-old Clarence Knox inside his home. Residents reported at least 20 shots the night before, and cops think he was the unintended victim of a drive-by shooting. And over the weekend there was this headline: “6 injured in 3 overnight drive-by shootings in Atlanta.” One of the victims is a 10-year-old boy.

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KEYWORDS: atlanta; civilunrest; police
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To: SanchoP

Ping


61 posted on 06/29/2020 6:38:03 PM PDT by mikeus_maximus (Your real threat is not some imagined shooter- it's that 30+ lbs of fat weighing on your heart.)
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To: joma89

They already do. Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, St. Louis. You think theycare? The problem isn’t them, its us. They dont fear or respect the police; we do. Thats why we will never rise up against these idiots until the cops go away and vigilante justice can take over!


62 posted on 06/29/2020 6:39:00 PM PDT by Bommer (I'm a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: Hojczyk
Atlanta's got nothing on Chicago where it's flat-out open warfare.
63 posted on 06/29/2020 6:39:48 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Veggie Todd

It’s like the beginning of that joke Jim Stafford would tell onstage: So, a fella called the cops and said, “I’d like to report a dead man on my porch.” The cop said, “How do you know he’s dead?” The fella sighed and said, “Well, he’s been laying out there for about a month.”


64 posted on 06/29/2020 7:25:29 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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To: Hojczyk

65 posted on 06/29/2020 8:03:11 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: SanchoP

Thanks for the chart. I’m gonna borrow it.


66 posted on 06/29/2020 8:17:34 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

ITSABIGGUN


67 posted on 06/29/2020 8:42:28 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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