UAAZ (University Avenue Autonomous Zone) and other developments
Rayshard Brooks' side piece posted bail:
BREAKING: Suspect in fire at Atlanta Wendy’s posts $10K bond
Is it just me or is $10k awfully little money for a 1st degree arson charge?
AJC said:
“She did know him,” [White's lawyer Drew] Findling told The AJC. “They did have a close relationship.”
Findley asked that White receive a signature bond, but Magistrate Judge Todd Ashley denied the request. Ashley said he was concerned White was a danger to the community.
Signature bond for arson? Where does Findling think he is? New York?
The area around the burned down Wendy's has been taken over by a bunch of armed black supremacists.
OPINION: Went to the torched Atlanta Wendy’s and got guns with that
AJC said:
“Don’t make any sudden moves, or you will get shot.
The warning was matter-of-fact, almost indifferent, and issued by an armed young Black man perhaps not yet out of his teens. The warning was given to me and Steve Visser, a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter who accompanied me to the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed by a cop this month.
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Welcome to Mad Max in The ATL, a bizarre scene with a post-apocalyptic feel. It’s a space where gun-toting dudes stand sentry to barren territory, where they serve as a ragtag Checkpoint Charlie, stopping bemused and sometimes alarmed motorists.
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Since late last week, University Avenue near Pryor Street has become a place where the law won’t go. Or at least where police have employed a hands-off strategy so as not to fan the flames of rage and contempt that stews in the streets.
BIG mistake!
The Wendy’s became ground zero for protests until it got dangerous last Friday night. A widely viewed video shows several gun-toting fellows strolling down the street as an admirer films them, gushing, “Man, I wish I could hold me a pistol. That’s the @#&$!”
Dude, guns are not that difficult to get in this country. In fact, they are super easy to get.
Almost on cue, gunshots — lots of them — break out. People scatter, although some not as urgently as you might think. A 24-year-old woman is hit in the leg.Someone says the shooter was white. There have been rumors white supremacists have been itching to target the area. In fact, it’s like some want it to be the KKK. It fits the narrative.“It’s a Black guy,” the injured woman responds as she calmly attends to her own wound.
I guess the black supremacists running the UAAZ were just projecting.
Minutes later cops arrive and one is shoved away — forcefully — by a man in a Black Lives Matter shirt. Soon, two white cops are shouted back into their cars by a menacing crowd. The cops realize discretion is the better part of valor. They skedaddle.
Mayor Bottoms is in the end responsible for this. She should have shown more strength during the Floyd riots.
The next day, a couple in a car driving on University “were forced to stop by what was described as a mob,” a police report states. Several in the so-called mob are armed. Someone reaches in, slaps the driver. Someone throws a rock through the window. The driver gets slightly injured.Hours later, a man gets shot in the leg. Also in the area that night, my old AJC buddy George Chidi, who is an activist and a journalist, got punched out and sent to Grady Memorial Hospital by a group of men.
That's what city life without police is like. Inmates are running the asylum.
We were approached by a massive guy with what resembled a TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol dangling from his chest. We were then directed over to someone who might be described as their spokesman. He said they were part of a peace initiative. Or something. I can’t recall exactly what he said because I was warned not to take notes, shoot videos or make sudden movements. We could get shot.
War is peace | freedom is slavery | ignorance is strength
I was told they were protecting the community from “your kind,” and they didn’t mean nosy reporter types. The youth assigned to me — he went by “Fast Lane” — couldn’t have been 17 and carried what appeared to be his grandfather’s single-barrelled shotgun.
Overtly racist, and yet they get labeled as "anti-racist" by the media simply because of the color of their skin. Because black people can't be racist, or something.
Later, the centurions ambled out onto University Avenue and blocked the fairly busy thoroughfare with an old car on one side of the road and some junk on the other. A young fellow with his shotgun pointed skyward stopped cars, glanced inside, and then determined who could continue or not. Black motorists went through. White drivers had to U-turn.
More racism and lawlessness on display. "City too busy to hate"? Nobody told these dipshits!
During my 90 minutes there Sunday, I saw two police cars approach this insanity but slowly drive away. The department’s standing in some quarters is in the toilet, so the force decided to let this hornets’ nest remain unmolested.On Monday, the Atlanta City Council held its public safety meeting, and Councilwoman Joyce Sheperd, who heads that committee and represents that district, said she’s been fielding calls from residents asking, “My God, what is happening?”
Dereliction of duty by the mayor and the interim ATLPD chief.
But, eventually they got their heads out of their asses. Slow, but still faster than Mayor Jenny dismantling CHAZ/CHOP
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Armed protesters ‘removed’ from Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed
AJC said:
A group of armed protesters who had occupied the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed have been removed from the area, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Atlanta police on Wednesday removed protesters who had been seen carrying long guns and blocking the area surrounding the University Avenue restaurant, Channel 2 reported.
No details about the removal were released. AJC.com has reached out to police for more specifics.
No word of any arrests. There should have been arrests.
It is not clear if the protesters plan to return to the Wendy’s at some point.
Pretty ridiculous to call these people "protesters".
