Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery's death a 'lynching of an African American man'
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Sunday described the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery as a lynching and characterized rhetoric from the White House as emboldening people with racist beliefs.
In an interview on “State of the Union,” Bottoms said Arbery’s killing was “part of a bigger issue that we’re having in this country.” “With the rhetoric that we hear coming out of the White House, in so many ways, I think that many who are prone to being racist are given permission to do it in an overt way that we otherwise would not see in 2020,” she added.
Her remarks echoed those of Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, who said last week that without the national attention it received, her son’s death “would have been a coverup.” In a plea for justice last week, Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery, begged for the McMichaels’ arrest “before they try to lynch anybody else’s kids.”
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