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Atlanta Mayor On Death Of 8-Year-Old Girl: ‘We Are Doing Each Other More Harm Than Any Police Officer On This Force’
Daily Wire News
July 5, 2020
Atlanta
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms slammed the local community on Sunday during
a press conference about the death of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, who
was killed on Saturday evening when an armed group of individuals opened
fire on a car that she was riding in near the Wendy’s where Rayshard
Brooks was killed last month.“
Officers said they responded to a 911 call near University Avenue and I-75/I-85 around 9:50 p.m.,” WSB-TV reported.
“The location of the shooting was in a parking lot across the street
from the now burned-out Wendy’s, which has been occupied by
demonstrators since Brooks’ death at the hands of an Atlanta police
officer.”
At
a press conference, Bottoms slammed the violent act and noted that
locals were inflicting more harm on the community than any police
officer ever has.
“Secoriea
Turner was shot and killed last night, and it was not by the hands of
police officers,” Bottoms said. “It was by the hands of a coward,
cowards, who are still out and about in our community. This happened …
near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed a few weeks ago.”
“We’ve
talk a lot about what we are demanding from our officers in our
communities,” Bottoms continued. “We’ve protested, we’ve demonstrated,
we’ve been angry, we’ve cried, we’ve demanded action. We’ll now we’re
demanding action for Secoriea Turner and for all of the other people who
were shot in Atlanta last night and over the past few weeks because the
reality is this – these aren’t police officers shooting people on the
streets of Atlanta, these are members of the community shooting each
other, and in this case, it is the worst possible outcome.”
“Enough
is enough. Enough is enough,” Bottoms continued. “We have talked about
this movement that’s happening across America in this moment in time
where we have the ears and the interest of people across this country
and across this globe who were saying they want to see change. … We’re
fighting the enemy within when we are shooting each other up on our
streets in the city and you shot and killed a baby. And it wasn’t one
shooter, there were at least two shooters. An 8-year-old baby. If you
want people to take us seriously, and you don’t want us to lose this
movement, then we can’t lose each other.”
“You
can’t blame this on a police officer, you can’t say this is about
criminal justice reform. This is about some people carrying some weapons
who shot up a car with an eight-year-old baby in the car,” Bottoms
concluded. “We got to stop this. We are doing each other more harm than
any police officer on this force. We’ve had over 75 shootings in the
city over the past several weeks. You can’t blame that on APD. So, I’m
just asking you to please honor this baby’s life. Please, if you know
who did this, please turn them in. These people are a danger to all of
us.”
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