.KeishaBottoms was already facing a perfect storm in Atlanta—of police violence, social unrest, and rising COVID-19 numbers—and then the pandemic truly hit home.
THE CITY OF ATLANTA was an anxious shell of its former self on the June day that its mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, was deciding how aggressively to challenge Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp.
I asked Bottoms about appearing on Biden’s vice-presidential short list. “It’s flattering to be part of the conversation,” she said. “But we’ve got a lot going on in this city. Enough to occupy your every waking thought” After the couple adopted their first son , Bottoms felt a “restlessness” to try something new. She was working part-time as a magistrate judge and decided to run for a trial-court seat. She lost that race, but while campaigning around southwest Atlanta, she took notice of what she thought were troubling disparities. “It’s a tale of two cities,” she told me. “There are middle- to upper-class areas, very pristine, and then you’ve got other parts with high poverty and unemployment rates.
Within weeks, Bottoms appeared again before the press with a different message. It was at the end of a Fourth of July weekend in which an eight-year-old girl named Secoriea Turner had been fatally shot by an armed group near the Wendy’s where Brooks was killed; a teenage suspect has since been arrested. “You can’t blame this on a police officer; you can’t say this is about criminal-justice reform,” Bottoms said. “We are doing each other more harm than any police officer on this force.
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