Protesters become violent, breaking windows, setting Atlanta police cruiser on fire - WSB Atlanta

ATLANTA — A peaceful protestation successful downtown Atlanta turned convulsive Saturday evening erstwhile protesters acceptable a constabulary car connected occurrence and started smashing windows.

The protesters are opposed to the operation of an APD grooming halfway successful a wood successful DeKalb County.

Hundreds of protesters gathered astatine Underground Atlanta earlier moving down Peachtree St. successful the bosom of downtown Atlanta.

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Shortly after, an Atlanta constabulary cruiser was acceptable connected occurrence and windows of section businesses were busted.

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The governor’s bureau released a connection saying they volition not tolerate immoderate unlawful crimes successful the sanction of peaceful protest.

The politician remains good informed of the concern done regular updates from authorities instrumentality enforcement and is actively monitoring the situation. State patrol is good equipped to respond to immoderate and each threats to nationalist information and is coordinating intimately with different authorities agencies and section PD.

While the authorities continues to respect peaceful protest, acts of unit against idiosyncratic oregon spot volition NOT beryllium tolerated. Those committing specified unlawful acts volition beryllium arrested and prosecuted fully.

Atlanta constabulary released the pursuing connection to Channel 2 Action News:

“The Atlanta Police Department is alert of the ongoing events, and we volition proceed to show them and code accordingly. We basal acceptable to respond to demonstrations to guarantee the information of those successful our communities and those exercising their archetypal amendment right, oregon to code amerciable activity, should the request arise.”

At 6:45 p.m., Atlanta constabulary released an update saying:

“Atlanta Police person responded to a radical damaging spot astatine respective locations on Peachtree St. Several arrests person been made astatine this clip and bid has been restored to the downtown space. This is inactive an progressive and ongoing probe and we volition not beryllium capable to supply specifics connected arrests numbers oregon damaged property, astatine this time.”

Channel 2 Action News is moving to get further information.

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