OPINION: Fulton DA hopes putting cops in jail will keep him in office
It’s as plain as the spectacles on Paul Howard’s face: The Fulton County district attorney is bastardizing his office to hang on to his job.
Wednesday’s news conference where Howard announced charges against two Atlanta cops was a travesty. It was a wounded candidate using the death of a man killed by police to weave together a series of bald-faced prevarications and obfuscations to get past a challenger who has him on the ropes.
Before the George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and now Rayshard Brooks protests and disturbances, Howard’s 24-year career as DA looked like toast. There were allegations of sexual impropriety with subordinates, and the GBI is criminally investigating him for paying himself $195,000 of city of Atlanta money funneled through a nonprofit he headed, one set up to combat youth violence.
A week before the June 9th primary, Howard moved quickly to criminally charge six Atlanta cops who used Tasers on two college kids. Now-resigned Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields, who’d quickly fired two of those cops, called out Howard as a crass, calculating politician.
But he was just getting warmed up.
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Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!
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