Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tells TheView the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks “didn’t have to happen this way and end this way.' “We have to encourage our officers to de-escalate a situation with reasonable objectivity.”
The mayors of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Georgia and Tacoma, Washington spoke about how their experience as black women has helped them lead their communities.Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Atlanta mayor, finds herself here: at the helm of a city wrestling withduring a national crisis over racial injustice and at the center of speculation for the country's second highest office.
MORE: Rayshard Brooks went from telling Atlanta officer about visiting mother's grave to being fatally shot: Video In early June 2019, she attended a fundraiser for the Biden campaign in downtown Atlanta. A few weeks later in late June, she sat alongside Biden's wife, Jill, at the first presidential primary debate in Miami as a special guest of the campaign. Throughout the primary season, as Biden's campaign was cast as faltering and lackluster, she stumped for him in Iowa, Texas, Georgia, and the all-important state of South Carolina, which revived his candidacy.
"There is a young lady right there in Georgia who I think would make a tremendous VP candidate, and that’s the mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms," House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., told theBottoms, 50, grew up in Atlanta, and is the daughter of Sylvia Robinson and Major Lance, an R&B singer who had a number of hits in the 1960s.
But as the country grapples with a confluence of crises - first the coronavirus, and now one that has further exposed the deeply-rooted racial disparities in America - she is stepping into a more public role for the campaign, after being tapped, alongside Congresswoman Val Demings, D-Fla., to be a top surrogate amid the unrest.
"What I see happening on the streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta," she said."This is not a protest. This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. This is chaos."
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