6 Atlanta officers charged after confrontation with college students

[alp227]

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard on Tuesday announced that six officers face criminal charges after the arrest of two Atlanta college students during the city's curfew crackdown Saturday.

Video of Atlanta police officers pulling the students from a car and shocking them with Tasers has sparked national outrage and resulted in the termination of two of the cops. The others have been placed on desk duty.

The victims, 20-year-old Spelman College student Taniyah Pilgrim and 22-year-old former Morehouse College student Messiah Young, were near downtown Atlanta when they were confronted by the group of police officers, AJC.com previously reported.

Read more: https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/live-fulton-announces-findings-atlanta-police-excessive-force-case/IwWL0tioOHNAtC29Ad2xGL/

[jayfish]

1. Bravo!

Credit where credit's due but let's see if this precedent continues once things have settled down. I guess all the DUers who were sympatico with the perps here are having a sad.

[louzke9]

7. INCIDENTALY....

Should the student victims choose to file a civil complaint, these officer will have to pay their legal fees out of their own pockets. They won't be covered by the liability insurance since they violated the law(s).

[captain jack]

2. If not for video, it would be just another Tuesday for 6 Atlanta thugs. "Always get tape." nt

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Fortunately, thanks to smartphones,

more and more such incidents will be recorded.

[SoCalNative]

4. Until they start confiscation them

or worse

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Many of them are backed up automatically and continuously to the cloud.

[The Mouth]

6. "Racism and police violence hasn't gotten worse

smart phones have gotten more ubiquitous

[DavidDvorkin]

11. Right.

[ace3csusm]

5. Shocking

I would like them to please explain why they felt they need to use such force why the video is playing ... Have this live tv ... then ask them how would you feel if this was being done to your son, daughter, mother, father...would approve...

[AllyCat]

8. WTH????

This is completely unreasonable and unacceptable!! I am so glad these officers are being charged. Clearly, we need a complete overhaul of how policing is done in this country, once we have a reasonable person in the WH.

[KT2000]

9. I thought they were

going to kill him. Perfect case of using a taser to say the person was noncompliant.

[killaphill]

12. More racist cops getting exposed

Sounds like we're draining a different kind of swamp, which is a good thing.