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Family Of Atlanta Church Deacon Who Died After Struggle With Police Officer Files Lawsuit

The family of a church deacon who died after struggling with an Atlanta police officer following a minor car crash sued the city, the officer and the police chief on Thursday.

Officer Kiran Kimbrough used excessive force while trying to get 62-year-old Johnny Hollman to sign a citation finding him at fault for the crash, violating his constitutional rights, the lawsuit filed in U.S. district court alleges.

Body camera video of Hollman’s Aug. 10 arrest shows Kimbrough shocked him with a stun gun after he repeatedly said he could not breathe. An autopsy determined Hollman’s death was a homicide, with heart disease also a contributing factor.

An attorney for the family said at a news conference announcing the lawsuit that Police Chief Darin Schierbaum, Mayor Andrew Dickens and other city officials were also responsible for Hollman’s death.

“While they did not stand over the top of Deacon Hollman as he took his last breath, they were there because they created the culture that allowed this officer to believe that his conduct would go unpunished,” attorney Mawuli Davis said.

The suit seeks unspecified punitive damages and other compensation.

An attorney for Kimbrough, Lance LoRusso, did not immediately respond to an email and text message seeking comment. He has previously said Hollman resisted arrest and Kimbrough acted lawfully when he deployed his stun gun and used force. -(source: ap)

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12-Year-Old Rapper From Viral Video Faces Felony Charges Corey "Lil C Note" Jackson was arrested while visiting a Georgia mall. In October 2018, a video of an encounter between a child and a police officer went viral.

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The family of a 22-year-old inmate at the Rockdale County Jail said he tried to summon help before slumping down naked on the floor of his cell and dying, according to video released on Wednesday showing the last hours of his life. Shali Tilson had been in custody on a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge for nine days. He died March 12, 2018 from blood clots that formed in his lungs due to dehydration, according to an autopsy conducted by the GBI. His attorney said he had been without water for three days. Tilson, who suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, was on suicide watch and, according to jail policy, should have been checked every 15 minutes. But deputies and medical personnel ignored Tilson for hours, the video shows.... [Jeff] Filipovits and Mawuli Mel Davis, represent the Tilson family in a federal lawsuit filed in March after an internal investigation revealed jail employees falsified documents to claim they had checked on Tilson prior to his death. The civil action was amended in June after the family came into possession of the videos showing Tilson's death. Law enforcement officials had declined to release the videos saying they were a part of an ongoing criminal investigation. They were given to the Tilson family by an anonymous "good Samaritan," according to Davis.... In the video, a naked Tilson can be seen peering out a small window in the cell's door, and pressing a button on the left wall. Officials said that is an emergency button an inmate can use to call for medical help.... Tilson eventually collapses in the corner of the cell.... At that point Tilson had lost consciousness due to dehydration, the civil suit claims. He stayed in that position until he died. According to the time stamp on the video, more than two hours passed before the door to the cell opened. Deputies appear in the door way and checked on Tilson, who did not respond.... Supervisors recommended one deputy be fired and four suspended without pay, according to written reprimands from the sheriff's office, which runs the jail. According to Davis, nobody has been fired....

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AFRICANGLOBE – Rapper Corey Jackson, better known as Lil C-Note, appeared in court on February 12 to face felony charges after being arrested for selling CDs at Atlanta’s Cumberland Mall. Atlanta’s CBS46 spoke to Jackson and his lawyer Mawuli Davis, who said the charges include obstruction of an officer, disorderly conduct with violence, and criminal trespassing.

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Confederate obelisk removed from Georgia square amid cheers

Confederate obelisk removed from Georgia square amid cheers

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With hundreds of people watching as midnight approached, a crane moved in and took down a Confederate monument that stood in the town square of an Atlanta suburb since 1908.

The stone obelisk was lifted from its base with straps amid jeers and chants of “just drop it!” from onlookers in Decatur, Georgia, who were kept a safe distance by sheriff’s deputies.

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Black Panthers join protesters in Atlanta

Members of the Atlanta chapter of the New Black Panther Party showed up at a protest in Decatur on June 3, bearing arms in order to protect the rights of peaceful demonstrators.

But the group’s designation as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center raised questions and concerns from attendees who didn’t know about the group or its history. Several people contacted Decaturish wanting more information about the group. Messages to the Atlanta chapter of the New Black Panther Party were not returned.

SPLC says, “Founded in Dallas, the group portrays itself as a militant, modern-day expression of the black power movement. Although it frequently engages in armed protests of alleged police brutality, non-racist, left wing members of the original Black Panther Party of the 1960s and 1970s have rejected the new Panthers as a ‘black racist hate group’ and contested their hijacking of the Panther name and symbol.”

Leaders of the movement have made antisemitic remarks in the past, the SPLC says.

“Many NBPP members are also current or former members of the Nation of Islam who vocalize deep resentment toward Jews because they think the Holocaust garnered much more sympathy and reparations for Jews than African Americans have received as the victims of ‘the black holocaust’ —slavery and Jim Crow,” the SPLC website says. “They also believe Jewish businesses prey on black communities. Former NBPP Chairman Khalid Muhammad has referred to Jews as ‘bloodsuckers.'”

The Atlanta chapter of the New Black Panther Party did not organize the June 3 protest, but they may be seen at future protests. The protests against white supremacy and racial injustice sparked by the death of George Floyd are often grassroots and free for anyone to attend.

Mawuli Davis, a local civil rights attorney and co-chair of the Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights, said he has seen the group at protests over the years and said they have never been a problem.

“I’m very familiar with them,” he said. “There have been protests and rallies that I have spoken at that they have been at as well. In all the years of having contact with them, I’ve never seen or witnessed them do any violence at any public rallies or anything. I don’t think there’s any threat at all.”

He said the Beacon Hill Black Alliance will have its own security at a Decatur rally planned in the Square this Sunday at 1 p.m.

When asked about the group’s views, Davis said, “I think it’s a distraction that I don’t want to be engaged in.”

“People are concerned about them,” he said. “We’re concerned about the things that have already been said to citizens in Decatur. I don’t want to give that any energy. It’s a nonstarter. We’re going to be there and we’re going to be focused on letting the young people organizing in the city of Decatur and surrounding Decatur … have a voice on what’s helping and harming them.”

Davis noted that frustration with inequality creates groups like the New Black Panther Party.

“Organizations come into existence because people don’t feel like they’ve been heard,” he said. “What people are seeing are responses to a lack of change to the redundancy of abuse that black people are experiencing. All kinds of things come out of feeling that you don’t have a voice. I’d love to be spending my Sunday doing something other than having to rally for the safety of Black people in Decatur and in Georgia and in the country and we really need it to get fixed.”

Clare Schexnyder, a white activist who is part of the Anti-Racist Coalition for Decatur, spoke at the June 3 event in Decatur organized by Georgia State University student Chaléah Head.

She said the group did not cause problems at the event.

“They were peaceful and talked about love and respect,” she said. “They were interracial (one white guy) and had a woman member. They were demonstrating their First Amendment rights and Second Amendment rights. And it’s hypocrisy for white people to call it out when white people with guns have been storming capitols and hanging governors in effigy.”

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The parents of an 8-year-old Atlanta girl slain near the site of an earlier police killing pleaded for the public to help find whoever was responsible as their lawyers announced more reward money. “Please don’t use the word snitch," the girl's father, Secoriey Williamson, said Monday, addressing anyone who might have leads. Total reward money now stands at $50,000, said one of the attorneys, Mawuli Davis.

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The parents of an 8-year-old Atlanta girl slain near the site of an earlier police killing pleaded for the public to help find whoever was responsible as their lawyers announced more reward money. “Please don’t use the word snitch," the girl's father, Secoriey Williamson, said Monday, addressing anyone who might have leads. Total reward money now stands at $50,000, said one of the attorneys, Mawuli Davis.

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The parents of an 8-year-old Atlanta girl slain near the site of an earlier police killing pleaded for the public to help find whoever was responsible as their lawyers announced more reward money. “Please don’t use the word snitch," the girl's father, Secoriey Williamson, said Monday, addressing anyone who might have leads. Total reward money now stands at $50,000, said one of the attorneys, Mawuli Davis.

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Black Panthers join protesters in Atlanta

Members of the Atlanta chapter of the New Black Panther Party showed up at a protest in Decatur on June 3, bearing arms in order to protect the rights of peaceful demonstrators.

But the group’s designation as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center raised questions and concerns from attendees who didn’t know about the group or its history. Several people contacted Decaturish wanting more information about the group. Messages to the Atlanta chapter of the New Black Panther Party were not returned.

SPLC says, “Founded in Dallas, the group portrays itself as a militant, modern-day expression of the black power movement. Although it frequently engages in armed protests of alleged police brutality, non-racist, left wing members of the original Black Panther Party of the 1960s and 1970s have rejected the new Panthers as a ‘black racist hate group’ and contested their hijacking of the Panther name and symbol.”

Leaders of the movement have made antisemitic remarks in the past, the SPLC says.

“Many NBPP members are also current or former members of the Nation of Islam who vocalize deep resentment toward Jews because they think the Holocaust garnered much more sympathy and reparations for Jews than African Americans have received as the victims of ‘the black holocaust’ —slavery and Jim Crow,” the SPLC website says. “They also believe Jewish businesses prey on black communities. Former NBPP Chairman Khalid Muhammad has referred to Jews as ‘bloodsuckers.'”

The Atlanta chapter of the New Black Panther Party did not organize the June 3 protest, but they may be seen at future protests. The protests against white supremacy and racial injustice sparked by the death of George Floyd are often grassroots and free for anyone to attend.

Mawuli Davis, a local civil rights attorney and co-chair of the Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights, said he has seen the group at protests over the years and said they have never been a problem.

“I’m very familiar with them,” he said. “There have been protests and rallies that I have spoken at that they have been at as well. In all the years of having contact with them, I’ve never seen or witnessed them do any violence at any public rallies or anything. I don’t think there’s any threat at all.”

He said the Beacon Hill Black Alliance will have its own security at a Decatur rally planned in the Square this Sunday at 1 p.m.

When asked about the group’s views, Davis said, “I think it’s a distraction that I don’t want to be engaged in.”

“People are concerned about them,” he said. “We’re concerned about the things that have already been said to citizens in Decatur. I don’t want to give that any energy. It’s a nonstarter. We’re going to be there and we’re going to be focused on letting the young people organizing in the city of Decatur and surrounding Decatur … have a voice on what’s helping and harming them.”

Davis noted that frustration with inequality creates groups like the New Black Panther Party.

“Organizations come into existence because people don’t feel like they’ve been heard,” he said. “What people are seeing are responses to a lack of change to the redundancy of abuse that black people are experiencing. All kinds of things come out of feeling that you don’t have a voice. I’d love to be spending my Sunday doing something other than having to rally for the safety of Black people in Decatur and in Georgia and in the country and we really need it to get fixed.”

Clare Schexnyder, a white activist who is part of the Anti-Racist Coalition for Decatur, spoke at the June 3 event in Decatur organized by Georgia State University student Chaléah Head.

She said the group did not cause problems at the event.

“They were peaceful and talked about love and respect,” she said. “They were interracial (one white guy) and had a woman member. They were demonstrating their First Amendment rights and Second Amendment rights. And it’s hypocrisy for white people to call it out when white people with guns have been storming capitols and hanging governors in effigy.”

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Georgians cheer as Confederate monument removed from town square | News

Georgians cheer as Confederate monument removed from town square | News

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With hundreds of people watching as midnight approached, a crane moved in and took down a Confederate monument that stood in the town square of an Atlanta suburb since 1908.

The stone obelisk was lifted from its base with straps amid jeers and chants of “Just drop it!” from onlookers in Decatur, Georgia, who were kept a safe distance by sheriff’s deputies.

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Video shows a woman being body slammed by an Atlanta police officer as she was arrested

Video shows a woman being body slammed by an Atlanta police officer as she was arrested

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The woman, identified as Amber Jackson, suffered a broken clavicle and cannot work as a dental hygienist because of the injury, her lawyer Mawuli Davis said in a news release.

The video, taken on May 29 by the AJC, shows a woman pull away from an officer who then grabs her from behind and slams her to the ground. The camera shifts so the impact occurs just out of frame. A woman is heard…

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Hundreds demand justice for Arbery at Georgia rally

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man killed during a pursuit by a white man and his son in Georgia, isn’t just prison time for his killers — it’s changes in a local justice system that never charged them with a crime, rallygoers said Saturday.

Hundreds of people came to the Glynn County courthouse demanding accountability for a case in which charges weren’t filed until state officials stepped in after a leaked video sparked national outrage.

Arbery, 25, was killed Feb. 23 just outside the port city of Brunswick. Gregory McMichael, 64, told police he and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, pursued Arbery because they believed he was responsible for recent break-ins in the neighborhood.

The McMichaels weren’t arrested and charged with murder until May 7, after a video of the shooting was publicly released to a local radio station and less than 48 hours after state agents took over the case.

“Justice for Ahmaud is more than just the arrests of his killers,” said John Perry, president of the Brunswick NAACP chapter at the Saturday rally. “Justice is saying that we’ve got to clean up the house of Glynn County.”

Speakers at the rally demanded the resignation of Jackie Johnson, the district attorney for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit who recused herself from the investigation, and George Barnhill, the Waycross circuit district attorney who took over the case and declined to press charges. Gregory McMichael was an investigator in Johnson’s office before retiring last May. Both Johnson and Barnhill have denied wrongdoing.

Organizers of the rally said around 250 vehicles drove more than four hours from Atlanta for the rally, bringing historically black fraternities and sororities, civil rights organizations and black-led gun rights groups, who said if Arbery had armed himself, he might be alive today.

Attorney Mawuli Davis came from his suburban Atlanta home because he wanted to make it clear how many people are not satisfied with how the Arbery case has been handled.

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“Georgians are just not safe when you allow an injustice like this to take place,” said Davis, who is an organizer with the Black Man Lab in Decatur, Georgia.

The case has brought reminders of several other black people killed in confrontations with white police officers or others and the names of Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland and others were mentioned during the rally.

“We’re going to keep on marching. We’re going to stand in solidarity. We’re going to keep on protesting. We’re going to keep on raising our voices because Ahmaud Arbery will get justice,” said Triana Arnold James, president of the Georgia chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Organizers asked the crowd to wear masks and stay a safe distance apart because of COVID-19. There were plenty of masks — some with Arbery’s picture — but many in the crowd were shoulder to shoulder for the rally and marched with arms locked after it was over.

Arbery’s attorneys have said he’s the person recorded inside a house under construction right before he was killed. Gregory McMichael told police he suspected Arbery was responsible for recent break-ins and he also said Arbery attacked his son before he was shot.

Arbery’s mother has said she believes her son was merely out jogging. The video of the confrontation shows the McMichaels’ truck in front of Arbery as he runs toward it.

The attorney of the owner of the house under construction said she thinks Arbery was getting water. A man in similar clothes appeared in videos from the home at least twice, lawyer J. Elizabeth Graddy said.

The homeowner, Larry English, lives hours away and set up motion-activated security cameras that send him a text when they start filming.

English called the Glynn County Police after one notification Dec. 17. No one was arrested, but a detective sent English a text message three days later giving him Gregory McMichael’s phone number and identifying him as a retired law enforcement officer, adding “he said please call him day or night when you get action on your camera,” according to the Dec. 20 text shared by Graddy.

English never read the text until Graddy’s firm started reviewing his phone days ago.

“He never called Gregory McMichael. He never took him up on that offer,” Graddy said.

The text message was first reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Arbery’s family ended Saturday’s rally thanking the crowd for their support and saying “we are all running for Ahmaud.”

The crowd then marched away from the courthouse, taking a knee in silence and blocking traffic for more than 60 seconds to symbolize the days it took for arrests in the case.

Then they chanted: “When black lives are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back.”

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Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.

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Caravan of Georgia activists to hold rally for slain black jogger

A caravan of cars packed with protesters will trek from Atlanta to the small coastal community of Brunswick on Saturday to rally for a young black jogger killed by two white men who chased him down and shot him because they thought he was a burglar. The father-and-son suspects were not arrested until weeks after the shooting, and just days after the video surfaced online. “If it wasn’t for the video, this would have been swept under the rug,” said Atlanta civil rights attorney Mawuli Davis, 51, one of the organizers of Saturday’s demonstration.

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