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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Madeline Thigpen
After coming under fire for not securing any murder convictions in the YSL RICO case, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis stood her ground on the overall effectiveness of her team on Thursday. “Crime is down,” Willis said during an interview with 11Alive in the lobby of Atlanta City Hall.
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3 weeks ago |
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Madeline Thigpen
Dominique Grant said she was in the middle of a mental health crisis when she was pulled over driving on Moreland Avenue by a Georgia State Trooper the Friday before Mother’s Day. Arrested under suspicion of DUI, the 32-year-old mother was booked into the Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC) around 11 p.m. that night. Grant admits to speeding but denies being intoxicated. She believes the officer was upset that she requested a field sobriety test and chose to arrest her instead.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Madeline Thigpen
Dominique Grant said she was in the middle of a mental health crisis when she was pulled over driving on Moreland Avenue by a Georgia State Trooper the Friday before Mother’s Day. Arrested under suspicion of DUI, the 32-year-old mother was booked into the Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC) around 11 p.m. that night. Grant admits to speeding but denies being intoxicated. She believes the officer was upset that she requested a field sobriety test and chose to arrest her instead.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Madeline Thigpen
Jimmy Hill is determined to continue his fight for justice after a federal judge decided Tuesday to drop the charges against retired Atlanta police officer Sung Kim, who shot and killed his son Jimmy Atchison in 2019. “Change ain’t going to come if we sit back and wait on others,” Hill told Capital B Atlanta the morning after the judge issued his ruling.
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3 weeks ago |
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Madeline Thigpen
Two men who had been incarcerated in Fulton County Jail for over a year died in custody last week for unrelated reasons. Shon Disola and Benjamin Pike are the third and fourth deaths in custody this year, just one shy of last year’s total of five inmate deaths. Fulton County has long been plagued by overcrowding and understaffing in its jail, which has led to dozens of deaths and accounts of abuse in the past five years alone.
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