Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms had an emotional message for violent protesters who brought 'chaos' to her city.
RELATED: George Floyd death protesters spread violence, destruction across U.S. cities
The demonstrations in Atlanta were among a wide variety of protests in cities across the country Friday night, sparked by outrage over the death of George Floyd. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was arrested Friday, days after video circulated of him holding his knee to George Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes before Floyd died.
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Voting has not made a difference in decades. I don’t agree with the burning of local businesses, but something has to change in America
@The Last Nope. Businesses will leave the city and they would be left to rot. Coronavirus already started it.
Because 30% of eligible voters don’t vote
go into business
@Zoi Masters change it for yourself..
@David Moore your all being hustled
Aunt Tammie? “If you ain’t rioting you ain’t black” – Biden
Entirely Indifferent lol
@C P Biden eventually apologizes for everything that’s ever come out of his mouth.
You are focused on the wrong thing. It was not a riot, it was a protest. A few bad actors may have acted questionably but that’s all. In Hong Kong, labeled a protest, correct? Was it violent? Did they cause property damage? Even the president and all the news outlets called it a protest not a riot. whos properties were they destroying? Say it with me, P R O T E S T.
Entirely Indifferent But yet you’re snide remark still doesn’t cover the issues that Americans face. Here you are taught to be decisive and won’t even listen to the voices of your fellow Americans. It’s disgusting and unpatriotic.
Mr. Kazu Premium Fantasy China was consistently praised by Trump at the start of the pandemic, so maybe if Trump listened to his outstanding American intelligence agencies, the same ones he has said he doesn’t believe over Putin (on camera), then maybe this could’ve been prevented. Your antisemitism of “global elites controlling the media narrative” is tired.
We need an active National Unified Organization that solely investigates Police Officers 👮♀️
Not Internal Affairs
@Doug ShawYour sunglasses don’t fool anyone officer.
How about everyone just obeys the law?
Run to Jesus not to do evil.EVEN GEORGE SAID IN A VIDEO HE MADE YOUTH ARE ON THE WRONG PATH. GO WITH GOD AND GO UP OR YOU’RE GOING DOWN. Check the flow. 🔥
https://youtu.be/vBRlYAiUOj4
Jesus loves You Jesus is the Prince of Peace God knows many of you are wounded which is why Jesus Christ was wounded for our transgressions. casting all your cares upon God for he cares for you. I know what it’s like to hurt I know what it’s like for Jesus to hit on me. I know what it’s like to be stressed I know what it’s like to experience Jesus Christ Prince of Peace.
JesUSAves
We have the CDC, this is a public health problem, we need to track and hold account of the effect of police brutality. Y35.91, Legal intervention, means unspecified, law enforcement official injured.
databang
We need better oversight over the Police.
Not Police investigating their own
They have been voting,this is the results!!!
yes to results as they keep voting in the same diabolical left his people who exploit pain and colour. Who do not truly seek God for the welfare of the communities if you look around at the states that are the worst ran their ran by Jesus Christ hating leftist. Most poverty most crime are in these godless States
Run to Jesus not to do evil.EVEN GEORGE SAID IN A VIDEO HE MADE YOUTH ARE ON THE WRONG PATH. GO WITH GOD AND GO UP OR YOU’RE GOING DOWN. Check the flow. 🔥
https://youtu.be/vBRlYAiUOj4
Jesus loves You Jesus is the Prince of Peace God knows many of you are wounded which is why Jesus Christ was wounded for our transgressions. casting all your cares upon God for he cares for you. I know what it’s like to hurt I know what it’s like for Jesus to hit on me. I know what it’s like to be stressed I know what it’s like to experience Jesus Christ Prince of Peace.
JesUSAves
Agree. This is the result of voting for Trump. You voted a racist president, you got division.
Lies same old same old the revolution will not go the way you want it to her way is broken
Actually Martin Luther King accomplished a lot doing it his way. If he wasn’t assassinated imagine how much more he could’ve accomplished. Violence makes people tribal and pick sides. Though burning police cars and the police station makes more of a statement than stealing TV’s from Target.
Let the police go home or go to jail.
Interesting that your title showed her plea as, “Go home!”, earlier today. Why did you change it?
Change the local government. Demand transparency & accountability from your local law enforcement.
Let’s boat out millionaire politicians lifelong politicians and bring in real life working people white yellow black brown don’t matter let’s start over
@Rick Crain people are not saying that because this is not the first time white cops have lynched a black man. And it will not be the last. Look up the Tulsa massacre sometime.
Frank Vrooman , No kidding. What else you recommend?
They’re so disconnected they can’t even go and talk directly to these communities
@Paco Seagle EXACTLY!!! not to mentioned she might get hurt plus being a political figure she would bare the brunt of their anger
Did you even listen to what she said? She knows very well what is going on, and it makes her mad. She is connected quite well.
She’s an establishment puppet politician. A neoliberal… not that unlike republicans.
I agree get these millionaires out of their put working people in there
@LaKaine Williams Then she should’ve done her job better, MLK wouldn’t support this but Malcolm X sure would have.
I agree with her and she is completely right your not protesting your out there stealing.
@Ezra Alem You are focused on the wrong thing. It was not a riot, it was a protest. A few bad actors may have acted questionably but that’s all. In Hong Kong, labeled a protest, correct? Was it violent? Did they cause property damage? Even the president and all the news outlets called it a protest not a riot. whos properties were they destroying? Say it with me, P R O T E S T.
@Vernon Rumphrey You are focused on the wrong thing. It was not a riot, it was a protest. A few bad actors may have acted questionably but that’s all. In Hong Kong, labeled a protest, correct? Was it violent? Did they cause property damage? Even the president and all the news outlets called it a protest not a riot. whos properties were they destroying? Say it with me, P R O T E S T.
@Yousavedbro Heaven Bound First of all the scripture stuff is irrelevant, because the scriptures didn’t stop cops or white people with guns and hatred in their heart from murdering black people.
@UCkoNMZUI3D6_fPR3dOeH9Jg Oh and let’s not forget the stealing of land, natural resources, culture and lives. Wait and who are the biggest thieves in the world? The ones who steal all of the above.
@Kingdom Come that maybe ur definition of protest but why harming think people might need, yes understand the main is becauses of police abusing there power to difference race however destruction of thinks that isn’t involved with the main cause or peoples who work hard on trying to live there life isn’t right. U guys might think it’s just buildings but we have families that needed stuff in order to survive this life.
She is 100% right. I’m proud someone has the guts to tell the truth. I hope it doesn’t fall on deaf ears.
@JamesAllmond right…..if those naughty protesters keep it up ….shes going to get the chief there to put them in ” time out” and ground them for a week….yep! That will show them !…..l bet they will see this and just drop the rocks and bottles and do as she says…..dont you?…..
The desire for those jordans is too strong than to listen to her.
The j force is too strong, can’t stop dreaming about them.
@JamesAllmond “he was a good boy”
@ScootMagoot46 I agree completely. Terrible acting job. Yes go vote in November for more of the same thing.
@Bruse Lhee So what you are saying is that’s what all of those people were doing? This is funny to you? A people in turmoil, that’s your best humanistic response?
What you guys don’t understand is a lot of the small business’s dropped their insurance because their business were closed from covid
Now you just destroyed someone’s whole life saving
Target and all the big location have plenty of cash
They are just going reopen! Just not in your neighborhoods, your neighborhoods are going to suffer more from it
Good comment
You are speculating. Did you drop your insurance on your car because you are not going to work because of covid? With a closed business it would make more sense to have your insurance. Take a lesson from world war II. The white people tore down damn near the whole world, their world to accomplish what they wanted. It’s ok if there are some short term losers, as long as our race has a victory. Black man or woman up. This is not a time for the feign of heart. Wake up, its happening almost every day. They can’t be allowed to be accustomed to us getting murdered in broad daylight in our daily living. The insurance of small business owners is the least right now. Adjust your focus and fix your mouth to speak like a person of an at risk race.
Kingdom Come my guy I came from 4 years of war in Bosnia genocide because I’m Muslim
Your mind set is destroying everything
The insurance thing is a fact! A lot of business owners took off their insurance since they got placed on lock down thinking they are safe
Just to get looted and destroyed over something you had nothing do with or most cases supported the protest at first
Kingdom Come , Well done.
This person complaining about small businesses not having insurance. Black Americans can’t drive to their local grocery store without a cop trailing behind them, then to be stopped “for driving black.”
Here’s two of the issues, police brutality and racial inequalities.
@Jo Jo mayor was talking about black owned businesses you troll.
First your stores then your homes, we getta stop this before our loved ones got hurt
The loved ones are getting killed my friend and its been going on for hundreds of years without a fight back. Its time to explore different options. I rather die fighting for a cause than with a knee or boot on my neck after submitting.
@DankNDoughnuts You’re not supposed to advertise that.
@Landbergaren The world as we know it was won by guns.
@Tou Vang If what spills to your neighborhood, a protest? Who are you going to start killing?
@Kingdom Come only parts of the world. Mostly Africa and the middle east. Still being formed with guns. Perhaps you could find a home there since you seam to like the result of guns vs democracy.
They aren’t protestors.
They’re rioters
Like Hong Kong?
Arrest the 4 cops that killed Floyd and charge them for murder. Than maybe protest will lighten up.
Also no more police putting there knees or any police body part on a persons NECK. Should be new police policy
Gladiator Spear You’re not smart enough to make that decision
You are focused on the wrong thing. It was not a riot, it was a protest. A few bad actors may have acted questionably but that’s all. In Hong Kong, labeled a protest, correct? Was it violent? Did they cause property damage? Even the president and all the news outlets called it a protest not a riot. whos properties were they destroying? Say it with me, P R O T E S T.
@CEO of heaven That’s it, that’s your intelligent response?
Wrong ! You should pleaded for cops to patrol with love and compassion.
“show up at the polls”
well, i wanted bernie sanders, but got “you ain’t black” biden,
wow, such representation
Chris Andrews you wanted Bernie? The fool endorsed Biden. How could you want a sellout like him?
Chris Andrews Bernie likes Biden though, so pretty much no one is suitable
So it is the city who made that situation a reality? No, it is the DNC
Not above your Oath of Office.
When you take that Office, that is above all else.
And vote for who? Crime-bill salesman Joe Biden? There’s no choice for justice in November.
Trump had an awesome response.
True vote for trump he’s done more for black Americans than ever obama
@Lucasbyrne14 no, vote joe.
@Kilo Wolf joe is your only choice at this point
Chaos? The fact that innocent lives are taken everyday.. THATS chaos