Atlanta wants private security at $1.6 M: "guns to protect me, not so much thee"

City Council members of Atlanta, Georgia are willing to defund the police because they are also willing to have taxpayers fund $1.6 million to hire private security to protect them because crime there is rising for some reason they can't figure out. The rich don't need to worry as much without police protecting them when they can hire their own guns with no cost to them. 

It's the Democratic thing to do.

The security force is specifically being considered to protect the wealthy area known as the Buckhead neighborhood. [I don't have to tell you what regular folks call that area--use your imagination.]

The fear comes after a shooting near a Buckhead mall that left a 7-year-old girl dead. the Independent reports, as gun violence continues to grow while these idiots want to defund their police because they are woke.

The city council has an entire plan specifically for Buckhead, per a “Buckhead Security Plan” slide deck made available on Monday. 

The plan includes, “Funding and establishing a supplementary, multi-car dedicated security patrol utilizing off-duty sworn officers of APD, Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, and Georgia State Patrol. The supplementary patrol will be for exclusive use within Buckhead commercial corridors and will be managed by the Zone 2 Commander at APD to augment on-duty APD patrol (NT).”

What remains of the police force is designed to work “in tandem” with existing law enforcement bureaus, and the city council is committing $125,000 to the effort initially. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution puts the final cost of the program, however, at a cool $1.6 million of taxpayer money.

“The private police are scheduled to start patrols in January,” the Independent notes.

Homicides in Atlanta have climbed over 155, "the most since 1998," according to the Journal-Constitution. Bill Campbell, a Democrat, was mayor at that time. In fact The last Republican mayor of Atlanta was Nedom L. Angier who left office in 1879. All subsequent mayors have been Democrats.

The Atlanta authorities did not want to accept responsibility for the crime surge. The Atlanta police chief Rodney Bryant blamed COVID-19 and the lockdowns for sparking the city's residents' criminal behavior as opposed to the defunding of police and left's oxymoron tendency to decriminalize crime.

“There are no other areas to socialize, people find themselves – there’s no football games to go to, there’s no high school football games to go to,” Bryant said, suggesting that the only other alternative was to participate in violence. Makes perfect sense . . . if you're stupid.

Atlanta’s woke mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, who was on Biden's short list to become Vice President, seemed clueless.

“We owe it to our children, as well as to all of our communities, to do everything in our power to eliminate gun violence,” she said. “If there are solutions that we have not explored and enacted, I welcome the suggestions.”

Maybe she should propose a contest. Whoever comes up with the best idea tp decrease gun violence wins a ride-along with the Buckhead security force as they fight crime in the tony area of Atlanta.

Although the city council voted against "defunding the police," as per local media, Bottoms noted, during the summer BLM and Antifa riots, that city authorities could soon begin the process of rerouting funds destined for law enforcement initiatives to other community-focused efforts. Makes perfect sense . . . if you're stupid.

Since making those statements, there has been a severe decline in police morale and an associated "sick out" that saw officers walk off the job over Atlanta's decision to charge officer Garrett Rolfe with felony murder in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks.

Bottoms later addressed officers directly and begged them to return to work.

Keep voting for Democrats, Atlanta. Makes perfect sense . . . if you're stupid.

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Cop charged in Rayshard Brooks shooting sues mayor and police chief

Garrett Rolfe, a former officer of the Atlanta PD filed a lawsuit against Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, and interim police Chief Rodney Bryant to get his job back.

Rolfe filed suit on Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court. He was fired from the job earlier this summer and charged with felony murder, among the eleven total counts, in the death of Rayshard Brooks in June. 

Rolfe states that his firing was unconstitutional.

The lawsuit states that his use of force against Brooks, who fired a taser at Rolfe as he ran away from police, “was proper and in compliance with Georgia law.” Anyone who saw the tape of what happened should agree with the former cop.

The lawsuit states that Rolfe was terminated from the job “without an investigation, without proper notice, without a pre-disciplinary hearing, and in direct violation of the municipal code of the city of Atlanta.” 

Basically, the firing appears to have been accelerated due to political pressure and the fact that Lance Bottoms is being considered as Joe Biden's VP running mate if he finally gets the Democratic nomination.

Rolfe's lawsuit further noted  that the other officer involved, Devin Brosnan, was not fired and was instead placed on administration leave, according to NBC News.

The lawsuit pointed out that what happened to Rolfe was atypical of protocol within the department. “Many other city of Atlanta police officers who have been charged with crimes, including felonies, have remained employed during the investigation and pendency of their criminal charges,” the lawsuit stated.

This is simply a case of police brutality--not by the police, but to the police officer by the city. The shooting of Rayshard Brooks was justified when he tasered Brosnan then turned as he ran and tried to taser Rolfe. Had Brooks been successful, Rolfe may have been killed once he was rendered helpless.

Any normal human being would have done the same thing.

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