Atlanta Police Are Calling In Sick
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The sudden shortage of police in Atlanta is, as reported by CNN, suspected to be the result of Fulton County district attorney bringing charges against the two officers who were involved in the deadly shooting of Rayshard Brooks. "There's a lot happening in our cities, and our police officers are receiving the brunt of it, quite frankly," Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said. Vince Champion, the southeast regional director of the International Brother of Police Officers, is presenting a different narrative behind the sudden decline in police attendance: "They're just fed up. I mean, their mayor has come out and said everything that they used to do with use of force is not valid -- 'Don't do it' -- so I don't know how we defend ourselves when people want to fight us."
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