The city of Atlanta will pay former fire chief Kelvin Cochran $1.2 million in the wake of a December 2017 court ruling that deemed unconstitutional the city policies that led to his firing by then-Mayor Kasim Reed. The court determined that Atlanta’s rules restricting non-work speech, like the book for Christian men that Cochran authored, were too broad and allowed city officials to unconstitutionally discriminate against views with which they disagreed.
That’s why this week the City Council finally voted to grant the highly-decorated chief the whopping damages fee after negotiating with his Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys.
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