Video above contains graphic images. Viewer discretion advisedAtlanta’s mayor says two police officers have been fired and three placed on desk duty pending review over excessive use of force during a protest incident Saturday night.Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the officers’ firing Sunday. Police Chief Erika Shields made the decision after reviewing body-camera footage. Shields called it “really shocking to watch.”Local news outlets were broadcasting live from the scene when the officers were filmed approaching the car and began breaking the glass and flattening tires.The woman in the passenger seat was placed on the ground, zip-tied, and taken into custody.Several officers took the man into custody, apparently using a taser in the process.It remains unclear what led up to the arrests. In Atlanta, 51 people were arrested Saturday night and a small crowd remained out past the city’s 9 p.m. curfew, police said.Protests in Atlanta over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white officer in Minneapolis pressed a knee into his neck, turned violent before Bottoms spoke. Police cars were smashed and CNN’s headquarters was vandalized as protests shook a city that prides itself as the birthplace of the civil rights movement.Bottoms addressed the crowds both as a mayor and a mother.“I am a mother to four black children in America, one of whom is 18 years old,” Bottoms said. “When I saw the murder of George Floyd, I hurt like a mother.”CNN and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Atlanta’s mayor says two police officers have been fired and three placed on desk duty pending review over excessive use of force during a protest incident Saturday night.
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the officers’ firing Sunday. Police Chief Erika Shields made the decision after reviewing body-camera footage. Shields called it “really shocking to watch.”
Local news outlets were broadcasting live from the scene when the officers were filmed approaching the car and began breaking the glass and flattening tires.
The woman in the passenger seat was placed on the ground, zip-tied, and taken into custody.
Several officers took the man into custody, apparently using a taser in the process.
It remains unclear what led up to the arrests.
In Atlanta, 51 people were arrested Saturday night and a small crowd remained out past the city’s 9 p.m. curfew, police said.
Protests in Atlanta over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white officer in Minneapolis pressed a knee into his neck, turned violent before Bottoms spoke. Police cars were smashed and CNN’s headquarters was vandalized as protests shook a city that prides itself as the birthplace of the civil rights movement.
Bottoms addressed the crowds both as a mayor and a mother.
“I am a mother to four black children in America, one of whom is 18 years old,” Bottoms said. “When I saw the murder of George Floyd, I hurt like a mother.”
CNN and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
