"If you want change in America, go and register to vote," she said. "Show up at the polls on June 9th. Do it in November. That is the change we need in this country."
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms delivered an impassioned plea to calm the violence in her city on Friday night, after a police car was set ablaze and protesters smashed windows at the CNN building. Atlanta's protest was one of many raging across the nation Friday night, as people took to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer kept his knee on his neck even after he repeatedly begged for air.
So 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. When Dr. King was assassinated, we didn't do this to our city. Story continuesThis police chief [Atlanta police chief Erika Shields] made a video yesterday, pull it up on YouTube. Where she said she was appalled to watch the murder of George Floyd. This woman did that.
If you want change in America, go and register to vote. Show up at the polls on June 9th. Do it in November. That is the change we need in this country.
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