Prosecutors have filed charges against six Atlanta police officers after video showed officers using stun guns on a black couple and ripping them from their car. Two officers involved were fired.
Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young address a news conference Monday at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Prosecutors have filed charges against six officers involved in the couple's arrest Saturday night.Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young address a news conference Monday at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Prosecutors have filed charges against six officers involved in the couple's arrest Saturday night.
Howard said the charges are backed up by extensive interviews with the young couple, Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young, as well as video evidence from bystanders and the officers' body camera footage.The district attorney played one such video from a bodycam. During the video, officers on foot confront Pilgrim and Young, who had been passing them in a car.
Pilgrim was never charged; Young was charged with attempting to elude officers before the charge was dismissed at the request of the mayor, who apologized."We just need to see that all officers are held accountable, and that there really is change moving forward within the culture of policing," Young said at a news conference.
Atlanta and other cities have seen widespread protests over the past week after another video — that of George Floyd's arrest in Minneapolis — catalyzed outrage over violence in policing. Floyd died after Derek Chauvin — who has since been fired from the Minneapolis police and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter — dug a knee into Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes.
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