Rioters set a police car on fire and smashed windows of various buildings at a protest in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, that turned violent on Jan. 21, which ultimately led to police arresting six people.
The latest violence comes after police shot at and killed a man on Jan. 18. Police said they did so in self-defense and that the man had fired at them first and injured a state trooper. Prior to his death, the man was protesting at a construction center of a planned police training facility that critics have derided as “Cop City.”
The protest that took place on Jan. 21 in downtown Atlanta started peacefully but suddenly escalated to violence, with groups of protesters-turned-rioters wearing masks and dressed in all black seen throwing rocks and lighting fireworks in front of a skyscraper that houses the Atlanta Police Foundation, shattering large glass windows. They also set at least one police car on fire, as well as smashed the windows of more buildings with rocks and hammers, and vandalized walls with anti-police graffiti….