Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms ordered changes to the Atlanta Police Department's use-of-force policy Monday in the wake of outrage over the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks. Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announces changes to Atlanta police department's use-of-force policy Monday CBS affiliate WGCL-TV Brooks was fleeing with the Taser of an officer who…
In the course of a five-minute speech, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms became a national figure credited with trying to soothe tensions across her city and saw her stature rise as a possible running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. “When I saw the murder of George Floyd, I hurt like a mother…
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) announced Monday she will be signing a series of administrative orders aimed at reforming police use of force policies in the city following the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks. Bottoms had initially announced a task force to make recommendations regarding use of police force within 14 days, and to…
(CNN)Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms vowed Sunday evening that America will "get to the other side of this" as the country grapples with widespread unrest and Atlanta becomes the focus of another …
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…