On July 4th weekend 2020 in Atlanta, an 8-year-old girl, a passenger in a car with her mother, was one of three people who died in shootings during large protests against police brutality and racism during one 24-hour period. At least 28 people were shot.
Author: Joshua Sharpe
Donors can help cover funeral for metro Atlanta spa shooting victim with no kin in U.S.
With no family able to come to Georgia to arrange her funeral, local Chinese American community leaders organized a service for Daoyou Feng, 44, of the Atlanta spa shootings victims this Sunday in Norcross, according to Lee’s Funeral Home.
Ga. state senator, activists sue over arrests during protest
State Sen. Nikema Williams and others filed suit Tuesday over their arrests during a 2018 protest inside the Georgia Capitol.
A dead suspect, a crying Atlanta cop and a mom with a new mission
A man had a gun and he had a fit, fighting his mind. A police officer was afraid and fired one shot, killing him. When his mother got the call, she faced with a choice: what should she think of the young woman who killed her son? Her son, the mother would later say, had been a rich gift: caring, goofy, lost, found, driven, troubled but trying. Now he was gone, and Catina Williams found the strength to say that she did not hate the policewoman who killed him. “She didn’t know what she was walking into,” Williams told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday. “I feel for her. I feel like she just panicked. She didn’t know who my son was, she didn’t know his capabilities.”
Georgia may privatize prison pharmacies; workers fear layoffs
The Georgia Department of Corrections is hoping to privatize prison pharmacy services, a potentially significant change to the way health care is delivered for the state’s 53,000 inmates.
Member of Atlanta family accused in terror plot deemed incompetent
A federal judge recently ruled that a second member of an Atlanta family accused of moving to the New Mexico desert to plot terror is incompetent to stand trial.