The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and many Georgia media outlets downplayed or ignored the Tuesday night attack on a downtown Atlanta police substation by what police sources tell InsiderAdvantage were armed radicals led by known Marxist Antifa agitators.
The print editon of yesterday’s Constitution, for example, had a one paragraph dispatch simply headlined “Police break up crowds after damage reported near Woodruff Park.” It neglected to mention that police arrested eight rioters in the process of attacking the Zone 5 precinct substation and trying to take over and block streets.
The website Law Enforcement Today received numerous reports yesterday from Atlanta law enforcement sources that police officers came under attack and that “heavily armed groups of protestors have been seen in the streets.”
Videos have also emerged showing what the website described as “rioters laying down metal slabs, reportedly to block emergency responders from being able to get to the scene.” The violence was supposedly to be in “solidarity” with protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the shooting of an armed criminal. Read more at lawenforcementtoday.com
InsiderAdvantage is told by police sources that “rapid police response teams” were dispatched immediately before the rioters could harm law officers, destroy the substation and take over streets. And they made eight arrests.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, as this is written, has not condemned the rioters. Nor has her new hand-picked police chief (although the department issued a terse Facebook statement about the violence that occurred). Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore was one of the few Atlanta public officials to publicly condemn the rioters and violence.
