'This is not a protest. ... This is chaos.' Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms denounced vandalism in her city after demonstrations over the death of George Floyd while in in the custody of Minneapolis police turned violent.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Friday evening denounced vandalism in her city as"chaos" after demonstrations over the death of George Floyd while in in the custody of Minneapolis police turned violent.
"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," an impassioned Lance Bottoms said at a news conference. "A protest has purpose. When Dr. King was assassinated, we didn't do this to our city," she said."If you want change in America, go and register to vote. ... That is the change we need in this country.
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