06-09-2020, 11:57 PM
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/opinion-u...tLx3ubdyM/
"Former Atlanta cop Trudy Nan Boyce was watching television on the Friday night that the anti-racism demonstrations roiling Minneapolis and other U.S. cities spread to Atlanta. It was a face-off between protesters and police, and she noticed a sea change from when she was in the front lines of the 1992 street disturbances.
“The front line of protesters were all white and the front line of officers were all black,” she said. “Someone was holding up a Black Lives Matter sign. I found that incredibly ironic...."
In 1992, the protesters were almost all black and were joined by a legion of freelancers bent on causing mayhem. If you were white and caught on the streets of downtown Atlanta, you had a good chance of being beaten. More than 40 people were hospitalized....
We live in a much less violent society. (I can almost hear some of you arguing, but crime today is HALF what it was in 1992)» The crowds are racially mixed, so there’s less of an us-against-them racial component on the streets.Well, there’s still the us-against-them when it comes to the crowds and police...."
Of the 500 arrested, article notes that 30% were white and only 10% were from out of state.
"Former Atlanta cop Trudy Nan Boyce was watching television on the Friday night that the anti-racism demonstrations roiling Minneapolis and other U.S. cities spread to Atlanta. It was a face-off between protesters and police, and she noticed a sea change from when she was in the front lines of the 1992 street disturbances.
“The front line of protesters were all white and the front line of officers were all black,” she said. “Someone was holding up a Black Lives Matter sign. I found that incredibly ironic...."
In 1992, the protesters were almost all black and were joined by a legion of freelancers bent on causing mayhem. If you were white and caught on the streets of downtown Atlanta, you had a good chance of being beaten. More than 40 people were hospitalized....
We live in a much less violent society. (I can almost hear some of you arguing, but crime today is HALF what it was in 1992)» The crowds are racially mixed, so there’s less of an us-against-them racial component on the streets.Well, there’s still the us-against-them when it comes to the crowds and police...."
Of the 500 arrested, article notes that 30% were white and only 10% were from out of state.