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| Two Georgia cops off the beat. The police chief and a patrolman were calling Black Lives Matter protesters racial slurs. One made a sexist comment towards Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. |
BLACK LIVES MATTER
PROTECT BLACK WOMEN!
WEAR A DAMN MASK! SAVE A LIFE!
HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE NOW!
GOOGLE'S BLOGGER IS TRASH!
BAD COPS WILL GET GOOD COPS KILLED!
No conservatives, you don't get to say Blue Lives Matter. You don't support police reform nor accountability. The Republican Party talks a mean game about being the "party of law & order" but in reality, they want to enforce law on the oppressed.
Republicans cater to dirty cops, crooked politicians, crooked religious leaders, white nationalists, anti-government extremists, Karens and conspiracy nuts.
Every time a person of color is shot and killed by law enforcement, their names become hashtags and we continue to call for accountability and justice. Often we never get justice because of zealous prosecutors who are in the bed with the police.
The conservatives often want to bring up Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis and Detroit as their counterpoint to gun violence and the need for Black people to hold ourselves accountable. They often try to scapegoat Democrats to the nation's woes.
Given that the Democratic Party is the party that put two people of color in higher office, the far-right will utilize this as a rally call to extremists. In turn we get more white nationalists like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Lauren Boebart, Beth Van Duyne, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz, Tommy Tuberville, Marsha Blackburn, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy and Louie Gohmert.
The calls for police reform, accountability and unity will grow louder.
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| The cop who killed Rayshard Brooks is facing a murder trial. |
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have dozens of issues to handle.
A global pandemic that is closing in on 500,000 Americans dead.
Civil unrest from far-right extremists.
Protests from antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Foreign meddling from Russia.
War drums from Israel, Iran, North Korea, Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan.
Unemployment that took the accomplishments of Barack Obama and Donald J. Trump combined.
A partisan Congress that continues to stall legislation and play gotcha politics.
A rumor mill that keeps churning conspiracies about Biden, Harris, Democrats and the junk food media being unfair to Republicans and conservatives.
And of course, gun violence in the United States.
Each crisis has a cause and effect. When something is done, we're expected the results of it. And surely, America will needs better footing when it comes to accountability.
So in Hamilton, Georgia, a police chief and an officer are out of jobs. The police chief resigned and the cop was fired out the cannon after it was revealed they uttered racial slurs about Black suspects and Atlanta's African American mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms.
ABC News reports that former chief Gene Allmond and former patrolman John Brooks were stripped of their badges.
The two were engaging in degrading a Black Lives Matter protest.
The assistant to Hamilton mayor Julie Brown said the cannon firings were swift.
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| Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms vows to change the way police encounter citizens in her city. |
Both cops were seen wearing their body cameras at the protest in Hamilton in June 2020, shortly after the global protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder.
In the video which was made public, a man speaking off-camera and a man on-camera make several comments with racial slurs and explicit language.
The off-camera speaker presumably makes reference to the June 2020 fatal police shooting of 27-year old Rayshard Brooks, who was shot at a Wendy's in Atlanta. The cop claims he allegedly grabbed the cop's Taser. After the struggle, the cop shot Brooks and he died at the scene.
The incident led to unrest. The shooting forced Ericka Shields as Atlanta Police chief and they criminally charge the dirty cop Garrett Rolfe. He was fired out the cannon.
Rolfe's step-mom posed with Greene in 2020.
Brown said that "the mayor and city council acted quickly to remove the Chief and the patrolman after viewing the video for the first time."
It was disgusting," Hamilton Mayor Pro-Tem Ransom Farley told ABC News. "The fact they were on duty ... when we found out they were terminated in an hour-and-a-half time," he said.
"I thank God, we caught it," Farley said. "When you're a police officer and you have that type of frame of mind .... how can you protect and serve?
The two cops were not available to give remarks to ABC News.
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