Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told protesters Sunday to “clear out” of an area where Rayshard Brooks was killed by police last month after an 8-year-old girl was fatally shot over the weekend near the site.
“You shot and killed a baby,” she said in a news conference. “Enough is enough.”
Bottoms said the girl, Secoriea Turner, was shot while riding in a car with her mother and a friend after they tried pulling into a parking lot. The site had been barricaded after Brooks was killed June 12 killing at a Wendy’s parking lot south of downtown Atlanta, prompting weeks of protests against racial injustice and police brutality.
Atlanta interim police Chief Rodney Bryant said the driver was confronted by a group of armed people who had blocked the entrance, which was less than a half-mile from the Wendy’s.
“At some point someone in the group opened fire, striking the car multiple times,” he said.
Secoriea was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
“We understand the frustration of Rayshard Brooks,” the girl’s mother said at the news conference. “We ain’t got nothing to do with that. [We’re] innocent. We didn’t mean no harm. My baby didn’t mean no harm.”
Authorities did not identify any suspects and it was unclear if they were connected to protests that Bottoms said have become a feature of the neighborhood since Brooks’ killing.
Bottoms said the vast majority of demonstrations in the city have been peaceful, though she said there have been occasional flare-ups,
including the alleged attempted firebombing of a state patrol building early Sunday morning.
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Like I am supposed to care when butt hurt leftists, SJWs with too much time on their hands, and bored university students on Twitter who are all professional victim types get offended and need therapy for made up 'microagressions' because I am Pan-European and proud of it, do not hide it, and have zero shame or guilt about it or about the history of European colonialism which was a very good thing. I am not African, Asian, mestizo, Amerindian/Indigenous, etc. and you cannot change the past.