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   On 7/6/20 6:39 AM, hamilton wrote:   
   > In an impassioned press conference Sunday night, Atlanta Mayor   
   > Keisha Lance Bottoms issued a full-throated call for citizens to   
   > stop "shooting each other up on our streets," after an eight-   
   > year-old girl was shot and killed on the Fourth of July near a   
   > Wendy's that has become a flashpoint of anti-police Black Lives   
   > Matter (BLM) protests in the city.   
   >   
   > Bottoms, a Democrat who is considered a potential running mate   
   > for Joe Biden, made the remarks as she fought through tears --   
   > and the nation endured a new bout of urban carnage. Sixty-three   
   > people were injured and 17 killed in Chicago, including two   
   > children, over the weekend; and in New York City, 44 were hurt   
   > and at least six killed.   
   >   
   > “Enough is enough," Bottoms said. "Enough is enough. We have   
   > talked about this movement that's happening across America and   
   > this moment in time when we have the ears and the interests of   
   > people across this country and across this globe who are saying   
   > they want to see change. But the difference in this moment in   
   > time with the civil rights movement -- the civil rights   
   > movement, there was a defined, common enemy. We're fighting the   
   > enemy within when we are shooting each other up on our streets."   
   >   
   > She continued: "You shot and killed a baby. And there wasn’t   
   > just one shooter; there were at least two shooters. An eight-   
   > 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."   
   >   
   > "It has to stop," Bottoms added, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.   
   > "You can't blame this on police officers. It's about people who   
   > shot a baby in a car. We're doing each other more harm than any   
   > officer on this force."   
   >   
   > Secoriya Williamson, the father of eight-year-old Secoriea   
   > Turner, told reporters that his daughter had been killed after   
   > at least two people in a crowd of armed people opened fire on a   
   > car she was riding in with her mother. Authorities said the   
   > mother had attempted to drive through illegally placed   
   > barricades in the area when the vehicle came under fire Saturday   
   > night.   
   >   
   > Bottoms said there have been problems with protesters in the   
   > area putting up barriers to close off the street. She said she   
   > received a message that the barriers were back up less than an   
   > hour before she was informed that the eight-year-old girl had   
   > died.   
   >   
   > "They say Black Lives Matter. You killed your own," Williamson   
   > said. "They killed my baby because she crossed a barrier and   
   > made a U-turn? You killed a child. She didn't do nothing to   
   > nobody. Black Lives Matter? You killing your own. You killed an   
   > eight-year-old child. She ain't did nothing to no one of y'all.   
   > She just wanted to get home to see her cousin. That's all she   
   > wanted to do."   
   >   
   > The shooting happened near the Wendy’s restaurant where a black   
   > man, Rayshard Brooks, was killed by an Atlanta police officer on   
   > June 12. Brooks was shot only after he was caught on tape   
   > beating two officers, stealing a taser from one, and then   
   > turning and shooting the taser at an officer. The officer who   
   > shot Brooks is now fighting charges that could bring the death   
   > penalty, and the officer's stepmother was fired from her job.   
   > (She told Fox News she was "stunned" by her termination and the   
   > charges against her son.)   
   >   
   > The fast-food outlet was later burned, and the area has since   
   > become a site for frequent demonstrations against alleged police   
   > brutality.   
   >   
   > In a statement Sunday, police said the girl was in a car with   
   > her mother and a friend of the mother when they got off   
   > Interstate-75/85 onto University Avenue and were trying to enter   
   > a parking lot nearby. They ran into a group of armed individuals   
   > who had blocked the entrance.   
   >   
   > “At some point, someone in that group opened fire on the   
   > vehicle, striking it multiple times and striking the child who   
   > was inside,” the statement read. The driver drove the girl to   
   > Atlanta Medical Center but she did not survive.   
   >   
   > Police said they are seeking help from the public to identify   
   > those involved and released a wanted poster saying a person all   
   > dressed in black and another in a white T-shirt were being   
   > sought.   
   >   
   > "Police shot 9 unarmed black people all of last year. 25 people   
   > were shot just in Atlanta. Yesterday."   
   >   
   > — Matt Walsh   
   > “An eight-year-old girl was killed last night because her mother   
   > was riding down the street,” Bottoms said. “If Secoriea was not   
   > safe last night, none of us are safe.”   
   >   
   > The mayor urged anyone with information about the shooting to   
   > come forward.   
   >   
   > "The political agenda of BLM results in blacks being killed,"   
   > said journalist Andy Ngo, who extensively covers Antifa and the   
   > BLM movement.  BLM explicitly advocates for the destruction of   
   > the "nuclear family structure," which President Trump has called   
   > the "bedrock of American life." Multiple commentators have   
   > agreed that stable family structures greatly reduce crime rates,   
   > citing statistics and personal experience.   
   >   
   > Added commentator Matt Walsh: "Police shot 9 unarmed black   
   > people all of last year. 25 people were shot just in Atlanta.   
   > Yesterday. And not by police. BLM says the first thing is a   
   > crisis worthy of rioting but the second is not."   
   >   
   > Until recently, BLM was viewed with skepticism by members of   
   > both parties. A newly unearthed, secretive 2015 Democratic   
   > congressional memo flatly calls BLM a "radical" group.   
   >   
   > The violence in Atlanta wasn't restricted to BLM-related areas.   
   > Police said two other people, in addition to the eight-year-old,   
   > were killed and more than 20 people were injured in incidents of   
   > gunfire and violence during the long holiday weekend.   
   >   
   > The mayor said the city’s 911 system was flooded with calls   
   > Saturday night and pointed to protesters who damaged a Georgia   
   > State Patrol headquarters in Atlanta in a separate incident   
   > early Sunday. But she said the city’s police force, though   
   > tasked by the weekend’s shootings, did not have problems with   
   > large numbers of police officers calling in sick.   
   >   
   > That had been a problem in the days after murder charges were   
   > filed against one of the officers in the Brooks shooting.   
   >   
   > 170 Atlanta officers have called out sick since cops charged in   
   > Rayshard Brooks caseVideo   
      
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