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'I'm open to suggestions': Democrat star Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms admits she doesn't know how to stop alarming crime wave as seven-year-old girl is shot dead and city faces deadliest year in decades
UK Daily Mail ^
| December 29 2020
| ARIEL ZILBER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on 12/29/2020 12:05:57 AM PST by knighthawk
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a rising star in the Democratic Party who was recently considered for a position in President-elect Joe Biden's cabinet, is coming under fire for her administration's handling of a surge in violent crime in her city.
Saying she was 'open to suggestions' on stopping the crime wave, the mayor was on the defensive over the holiday weekend after three people were fatally shot in the city, bringing Atlanta's homicide count to its highest in more than two decades.
A 7-year-old girl who was shot in the head by a stray bullet after Christmas shopping with her family in Atlanta has died, marking another fatality in a city suffering from a spike in gun violence.
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KEYWORDS: atlanta; keishabottoms
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To: knighthawk
Get used to it, Keisha, it’s just starting. And it’s not really big yet.
To: knighthawk
Defund the police and replace them with community organizers. That should work just fine.
To: knighthawk
Maybe turn the police loose and let them do their jobs. Get rid of your stupid “rules of engagement” that so many democratic leaders think are a good idea. People will suddenly find out that they live longer when the bad guys are dealt with.
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:10:46 AM PST
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: knighthawk
Tough. The people want Bread & Circuses then they get the dead kids that go with it.
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:13:16 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Arm Up! They Have!)
To: knighthawk
Mayor, how about resigning?
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:13:18 AM PST
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: knighthawk
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (Dem.) said she was 'open to suggestions' on stopping the crime wave. As to its causes, she further opined that 'your guess is as good as mine.' When asked about concrete measures she would institute, she again consulted her Book of Clichés and replied, 'Look, it is what it is. There's nothing to see here! Go about your business! Disperse! This is the new normal. Live with it!'Regards,
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:14:22 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: House Atreides
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:15:11 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: knighthawk
Safe to say Atlanta has hit bottom...
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:15:52 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Potemkin Joe - Everything about him is fake)
To: House Atreides
It's stunning that these black mayors can't get control of their crime waves. It was said way back that if blacks ran these communities all would be fixed.....and here we are in all major cities run by Demorat Blacks.....increase in deaths and criminal activity..
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:15:59 AM PST
by
caww
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To: knighthawk
“I think that a very simplified message is ‘defund the police,’ but I think the overarching thing is that people want to see a reallocation of resources into community development and alternatives to just criminalizing behavior"
--- Keisha Lance Bottoms, June 2020
Words and actions have consequences. The people of Atlanta voted in this clueless "rising star", they reap what they sow.
To: Pilgrim's Progress
Put a Republican man in charge as mayor and see what happens.
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:17:20 AM PST
by
caww
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To: knighthawk
The Democrats cheered this insurrection and wanton crime.
What they have unleashed on America is pure evil.
So now they act surprised?
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:18:52 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: knighthawk
1. Have a gang unit on police force.
2. Start stop and frisk.
3 anytime you catch a gang member carrying a weapon in the slammer he goes..
4 I mean you put these punks out of business...
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:21:46 AM PST
by
tallyhoe
To: gov_bean_ counter
[Safe to say Atlanta has hit bottom...]
Not yet. The Democrats will apply the wrong solutions to the problems they created and supported. And not only will they not learn their lesson, they will never admit why things went so wrong.
This is just the beginning.
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:22:03 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: gov_bean_ counter
[Safe to say Atlanta has hit bottom...]
Not yet. The Democrats will apply the wrong solutions to the problems they created and supported. And not only will they not learn their lesson, they will never admit why things went so wrong.
This is just the beginning.
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:22:03 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: knighthawk
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:23:40 AM PST
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: knighthawk
When people started to vote in people as mayors with 3x5 inch index card resumes....what exactly did they really expect to happen? Someone made the right speeches and hyped social agendas...so here we are...no real solutions or willingness to do anything to resolve problems.
I’ll go ahead and predict by 2025...Atlanta starts to see shifts of people heading out of the city...business operations relocating 50 to 100 miles beyond the city, and tourism cut by 50-percent. Same thing going on in Memphis.
To: knighthawk
Stupidity at a level that boggles the mind...
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:27:15 AM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: knighthawk
UMMM, for one thing defunding the police doesn’t sound like a very good idea. Girlfriend, you need to step down and let the adults take care of things.
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posted on
12/29/2020 12:27:44 AM PST
by
Impala64ssa
(Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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