(06-18-2020, 05:58 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: It will be interesting to see how many voters in Georgia vote for this idiot DA.  I feel for the good citizens of Georgia when the police officers get acquitted (assuming that it goes to trial and they get an impartial jury).  Both the DA and the Mayor need to go.  As more information comes out it's pretty clear that these two police officers are being used as political pawns.

This comment proves that you know jack [BLEEP] about what's going on in Atlanta. Yes, the DA is a corrupt idiot who's using this to get himself re-elected (my previous theory about it being to boost the mayor is wrong). He knows he's in trouble, and he's banking on this not going to trial before the election so he can run stump speeches about how he's protecting Atlanta or whatever.

The mayor, on the other hand, is about the only mayor of a real city that was able to get the initial riots under control after the first night, and keep riots and looting more or less under control throughout after that, right up until an officer very questionably shot Brooks in the back. Contrast that to Minneapolis, where the mayor took days to even think about trying to control things, or LA that had several days of riots. Philly, too. Aside from her bizarre pseudo-firing of the chief of police, it's hard for me to find a real misstep on her part after being caught completely off guard by the first night of protest--a mistake she responded to in force on the second day and thereafter.

TBQH, she's the only effective political leader in the state of Georgia right now. Kemp has looked ineffective, at best, for months now, to the point that the entire Atlanta metro (including the very white, very rich parts) has been taking its lead from Mayor Bottoms, not the governor. But if you choose just to see the color of her skin and the (D) after her name before doing your usual routine, hey, your problem, not mine.

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