Watch Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’s Impassioned Speech on Unrest in Atlanta

Watch Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’s Impassioned Speech on Unrest in Atlanta

  • Above everything else, I am a mother. I am a mother to four black children in America, one of whom is 18 years old. And when I saw the murder of George Floyd, I hurt like a mother would hurt.
  • This is not the legacy of civil rights in America. This is chaos, and we are buying into it. This won’t change anything, we are no longer talking about the murder of an innocent man. We are talking about how you are burning police cars on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Go home.

NY Magazine – Keisha Lance Bottoms | May 30, 2020