A violent dispute is impeding police reform in Atlanta
A forest, a fatal shooting and a police car up in flames
It was a familiar scene. On January 21st hundreds of protesters holding “defund the police” signs flooded Atlanta’s Peachtree Street. Windows were smashed and a police car was torched. Like so many times before the outcry was over a police killing. A 26-year-old was gunned down by a cop last week. But this time the story was different. The victim was shot protesting against a city initiative enacted in response to the Black Lives Matter marches.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Cop city”
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