Law and order broke down in Atlanta earlier this year, under the inept leadership of Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. For unclear reasons, the mayor is considered a rising star in the Democratic Party.
The mayor’s star may be rising but so are homicides in Atlanta. Big-city mayors like Bottoms, who greenlit anti-police protests and peddled conspiracy theories about systemic racism earlier this year, are now grappling with a very predictable surge in violent crime.
There were three killings in Atlanta during a one-day period over the Christmas weekend. The Christmas slayings brought Atlanta’s homicide number to 154, the highest since 1998. Before the three recent killings, a 7-year-old girl riding in a car with her mother and aunt was struck in the head by a stray bullet fired during an altercation between several men outside a Saks Fifth Avenue store. According to Fox News, the child remains in the hospital undergoing treatment.
Fox News reports that at least one Atlanta city councilmember is fed up with the homicides happening under the mayor’s watch.