![]() Six years after the first round of Black Lives Matter uprisings, it felt to many that the system had not fundamentally shifted. ![]() ![]() “If you care about this city, then go home,” she urged.īut protesters filled the streets precisely because they cared so deeply. Bottoms’s admonishment was celebrated by pundits and politicians, winning her a national profile. “You are disgracing our city,” Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms had declared when the protests broke out two weeks earlier. The Wendy’s where Rolfe killed Brooks the day before went up in flames, lighting up the night as protesters chanted and mourned, decrying a system that disproportionately takes the lives of Black people as a matter of course. The police had killed again, and this time the victim was an Atlantan: 27-year-old father and music lover Rayshard Brooks, shot in the back twice by Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe. Two weeks after uprisings sparked by the murder of George Floyd left Atlanta littered with ashes, protesters flooded the city’s streets once more. Photo: Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times/REDUX The Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed, on June 13, 2020.
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