Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms urged demonstrators to go home as protests turned violent Friday night. 'What I see happening on the streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta,' she said.
Protests turned violent on Friday night as hundreds of demonstrators poured into the streets of Atlanta. In a press conference held by the city's mayor, police chief and several public figures, Mayor Keisha Lanced Bottoms denounced the protesters and urged people to stop.
"What I see happening on the streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta. This is not a protest. This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. This is chaos. A protest has purpose," she said."When you burn down this city, you're burning down our community." Protesters near the city's Centennial Olympic Park smashed windows, burned cars, vandalized public property and looted businesses in the downtown area clashed with police officers.Elijah Nouvelage/Stringer
The demonstrations on Friday night have been the latest to unfold as Americans across the nation have joined the efforts in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd. Minnesota has seen a week of civil arrest after a viral video emerged Monday of a white police officer kneeling on Floyd's neck moments before he died in police custody.
"You are disgracing this city. You are disgracing the life of George Floyd and every other person who has been killed in this country. We are better than this. We are better than this is a city and we are better than this as a country," Bottoms said."It's enough," she said,"We are all angry. This hurts. This hurts everybody in this room. But what are you changing by tearing up a city? You've lost all credibility now. This is not how we change America.
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