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In a move that only hurts the people he claims to serve, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has said that cities and counties can’t mandate the wearing of COVID-19 masks. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Kemp’s order extends certain virus-inspired restrictions while also “explicitly banning cities and counties from adopting rules requiring masks or other face […]
Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta Police Department cop charged with murdering Rayshard Brooks, has been released on bond. Rolfe posted bond the $500,000 bond on Tuesday night, per WSB-TV. Publicly available court records list the date of release as July 1. Rolfe, whose charges include felony murder, was originally booked on June 18. The bond’s […]
A FedEx driver claimed that he and a co-worker were fired after they shared a video of a confrontation with a belligerent customer in Georgia, but the company refutes firing the two employees. One of the workers uploaded a clip of the incident, which has since gone viral, in which the white customer can be seen recording […]
Footage obtained by The Guardian through a public records request shows a police officer in Brunswick, Georgia attempting to tase Ahmaud Arbery back in 2017. An unarmed Arbery was killed on February 23, 2020 after Gregory and Travis McMichael chased him down and shot him. Arbery, who was 25 at the time he was murdered, was questioned by police in November […]
The house under construction that Ahmaud Arbery visited the day he was fatally shot had been visited by multiple people beforehand, new surfaced videos show. As CNN reports, homeowner Larry English has released surveillance video from the construction site in Brunswick, Georgia, showing that other individuals had trespassed on the property. In a statement from the Arbery family’s attorneys, […]
Georgia authorities say a 5-year-old accidentally killed his older brother with a loaded firearm he discovered in the woods. According to CNN, the incident occurred Saturday in Griffin, Georgia, where officers responded to a report about a 12-year-old boy who sustained a gun wound to the chest. Officers arrived at the scene and began performing CPR on the child, […]
Last month, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp issued an executive order that dropped the formal driving test that had represented the final hurdle teens had to clear to acquire a license. The justification given for that was that it wasn’t possible to maintain social distancing with a driving instructor in your car. Instead, all teens had […]
The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old black man who was shot dead earlier this year, says she fully supports an-eye-for-an-eye type of justice. During an interview with TMZ on Tuesday, Wanda Cooper-Jones was asked what she believes is the appropriate punishment for the men who’ve been charged with murdering Arbery. “I would like for all hands that were […]
One day after vowing to look into the handling of Ahmaud Arbery’s death, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is requesting that the U.S. Department of Justice step in, WSB-TV Atlanta reports. “We are committed to a complete and transparent review of how the Ahmaud Arbery case was handled from the outset,” Carr said. “The family, […]
JAY-Z and Team Roc are calling on government officials in Georgia to act swiftly when handling the case of Ahmaud Arbery. Hov, Alicia Keys, Yo Gotti, Meek Mill, and two of the Team Roc attorneys signed an open letter addressed to several state officials, including Governor Brian Kemp. Team Roc acknowledges that Gregory and Travis McMichael were arrested […]
