Fulton DA won't charge lawmaker arrested during election law signing

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Bluestein
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Fulton County’s district attorney said she won’t prosecute the Democratic lawmaker who was arrested last month after she knocked on the door of Gov. Brian Kemp’s state office as he was touting a sweeping new elections law. #gapol

Fulton DA won’t charge lawmaker arrested during election law signing
Fulton County’s district attorney said Thursday she won’t prosecute the Democratic lawmaker who was arrested last month after she knocked repeatedly on the door of Gov. Brian Kemp’s state office as...
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9:37 AM · Apr 7, 2021

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. YES!!!

[obamanut2012]

2. k & r

[bluestarone]

3. THIS isThe right thing to do!!

Now sue the assholes!

[Probatim]

4. I know I shouldn't be surprised - but I'm surprised.

Pleasantly surprised and pleased someone had the sense to drop charges. (I assume they dropped the charges.)

[cannabis_flower]

19. Fulton County DA

Frani Willis is a Democrat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fani_Willis

I think Atlanta is blue.

[Turbineguy]

5. What?

Knocking while Black is not a crime yet?

[dlk]

6. That would be Fani Willis, who is currently investigating the former guy for election tampering

It must be an enormous relief for Park Cannon to have the charges dismissed.

[TomSlick]

7. Good call.

[comradebillyboy]

8. No rational prosecutor would touch this case.

But still there are lots of rightwing assholes who would.

[ancianita]

9. Good prosecutorial discretion that upholds spirit of the law over letter of the law. The enforcement

itself could be argued as illegal, anyway, because the people in that room had no right to exclude reps of
the population authorized to witness the event on constituents' behalf.

[KarenS]

10. Yay!! Something else for the 'tighty Righties' to be upset about!!! n/t

[StClone]

11. Dammit she should never been under any sort of Police Restraint

What the hell is wrong with them. She is a elected official for Christ's sake and did absolutely nothing wrong. She needs more than apology from the Gov. and his male, white-cohorts.

[aggiesal]

12. Makes it sound like the Fulton County DA did Rep. Park Cannon a favor, when ...

Rep. Cannon should have never been arrested.

[Bleacher Creature]

13. This is great news, but I still wish those cops that arrested her would be disciplined. NT

[wnylib]

18. Those cops must have had orders

to arrest her. Whoever gave the orders should be investigated

[USALiberal]

20. Ahh, no! Doing there job! Nt

[niyad]

22. The job of protecting white supr,elicits, you mean? Rep. Cannon is an ELECTED Georgia official, and

not subject to arrest in pursuit of her duties.

[keithbvadu2]

14. The state cop said he was worried about a January 6th type of occurrence as he was arresting her.

The state cop said he was worried about a January 6th type of occurrence as he was arresting her.

He must have seen some Trump supporters nearby.

[Aristus]

17. Typical shit cop...

Hey, flatfoot, those hammerheads on January 6th weren't politely knocking on the door!...

[lindysalsagal]

15. OK! Now, prosecute the person who ordered the arrest.....

[meow2u3]

16. There was no crime committed. Good call by the DA

The charges Kemp pressed against Georgia State Rep. Cannon were completely contrived and were in retaliation against her knocking on Kemp's door, which he had locked to keep the signing of the Repubican Tyranny Guarantee Act secret from Democrats.

[calimary]

21. GOOD.

[jaxexpat]

23. Then, isn't false arrest still a thing?

Look, it was a disruption of normal order perpetrated by LEO's. Was it legitimate or not? Because it DID prevent a legislative member from expressing their legal right to speech. That, then, was preventing constituents' speech as well.

[mac2766]

24. Calling all attorneys... Can she? Should she sue?

[BobTheSubgenius]

25. Of course he won't!!!

It would be the worst optics possible. The only reason this happened at all is because Kemp has zero f***s to give about optics, especially when it comes to minorities.

Good to know there is still someone in GA's state government that has a functioning brain.