A group of photographers and TV cameramen started running from in front of the Lewis R. Slaton Fulton County Courthouse where they had been stationed all morning in anticipation of any news on indictments on former United States President Donald J. Trump went to the corner of Pryor Street and MLK Blvd.
There they would see Fulton County Sheriff’s Department deputies aggressively approach a small group of Cop City protestors from Community Movement Builders, a local nonprofit organization. The sheriff’s department attempted to drown out the protestors’ chants of “Stop Cop City,” No Justice, No Peace, F&*k those racist ass police,” and “Andre Dickens, Donald Trump, I don’t know the *expletive* difference” by sirens and bullhorn requesting that they take the protest off county court property.
The entire time major TV networks, print publications and websites took account of the incident.
Joesetta Burnette. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta VOice
All eyes are on Atlanta these days and it doesn’t look like it will change any time soon as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is presenting 2020 Georgia election investigation findings to a grand jury. The Stop Cop City rally took place around 11 a.m. Monday morning, taking full advantage of the amount of media that had been positioned outside of the county courthouse night after night for the past week and a half.
The state of Georgia rose to national prominence during the most recent gubernatorial and senatorial races that helped make Stacey Abrams, Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock and Senator Jon Ossoff household names. The excitement around Georgia politics has yet to cool off.
Fulton County Sheriff’s deputies, some on motorcycles, made the protestors move down MLK away from the courthouse. During the mini-standoff, Community Movement Builders organizer Keyanna Jones hoped the deputies had the same energy and interest if pro-Trump rallies or protests take place in front of or near the courthouse this week.
Felix Jones. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice
“Fulton County was extremely aggressive in the way they came out.They tried to push us away,” said Jones. “They made a very big physical showing against a group of students and I don’t think they really understand what this is going to do. It’s a bad look.”
Community Movement Builders has plans for more protests and rallies going forward.
“They are down here because Trump’s motorcade is going to come through and they are trying to protect the [former] president, so stay over there,” she said. “We are over here, we are not bothering them.”
Locals are also keeping their eyes on everything taking place downtown. Felix Jones, 48, has a personal interest in the indictments. He told The Atlanta Voice of Trump, “I want him to be indicted.” A native of East Point and a Democrat, Jones admitted that he did not vote for Trump in either of the two past presidential elections.
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Joetta Burnette, a 71-year-old Alabama native and resident of Atlanta since 1977, said of all of the cameras and security around the courthouse, “This has been an interesting time” and of the 45th President of the United States, “He should be indicted. Nobody is above the law. Trump is one of the biggest criminals in America.”
Willis will likely announce twelve indictments related to the electors scheme which sought to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential Election in Georgia.
CHICAGO (AP) — Keaton Wallace had a career-high 27 points and the short-handed Atlanta Hawks beat the Chicago Bulls 110-94 on Wednesday night.
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Wallace nearly doubled his previous high of 14. He made four 3-pointers and had six assists.
Daeqwon Plowden scored 19 points in his NBA debut after being called up from the G League’s College Park Skyhawks.
Dyson Daniels scored 18 points, and Onyeka Okongwu added 14 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists to help the Hawks win for the third time in four games even though Trae Young sat out due to a bruised right rib. The three-time All-Star was hurt against Phoenix on Tuesday night when he scored a season-high 43 points in a 122-117 win.
Coby White scored 16 points for Chicago. Zach LaVine had 15, and Nikola Vucevic added 14 points and 16 rebounds.
Takeaways
Hawks: Young, averaging 23.1 points and a league-leading 11.9 assists, was part of a lengthy list of sidelined Hawks. It included Jalen Johnson (right shoulder inflammation), De’Andre Hunter (left foot soreness), Larry Nance Jr. (right hand) and rookie Zaccharie Risacher (left adductor irritation).
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Bulls: The Bulls simply couldn’t find much of a rhythm and lost for the fourth time in five games.
Key moment
Wallace scored 18 in the first half as the Hawks built a 61-47 lead.
The 6-foot-3 guard had eight points in a 15-0 run early in the second quarter that gave Atlanta a 42-27 lead. The Bulls got within four late in the half before the Hawks scored 13 straight, capped by Okongwu’s alley-oop dunk to make it 59-42 with 1:30 left. Okongwu also put back Bogdan Bogdanovic’s missed 3 in the closing seconds to send Atlanta to the locker room up by 14.
The Bulls went on a 12-2 run in the third to pull within 72-67 with about five minutes left in the quarter. The Hawks led by eight going into the fourth and remained in control from there.
Key stat
Both teams struggled from 3-point range, with the Hawks making 13 of 43 and the Bulls going 6 for 27.
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The Hawks visit Boston on Saturday night, and the Bulls host Charlotte on Friday night.
During President Biden’s farewell address, he quoted former President Eisenhower’s farewell address from 1961, and said he was equally concerned decades later about the dangers of the military-industrial complex and misplaced power.
Atlanta’s dance scene is vibrant and eclectic, and we are honored to highlight some of the many local dancers who move us with their movements in our ongoing series “Speaking of Dance.”
This edition highlights Atlanta performer, Frankie Mulinix, the founder and artistic director of Burning Bones Physical Theatre. She specializes in the evocative Butoh, a 1950s-era Japanese dance-theater art form that blends German expressionism, mime, and European philosophy to explore taboo subjects through dance.
For Mulinix, discovering Butoh during her undergraduate studies was transformative. “My body said, this is home,” she shared.
As an artist-in-residence at Windmill Arts, Mulinix is dedicated to building Atlanta’s Butoh community from the ground up, educating audiences about its history and global significance. Her work aims to transform emotion into experience, creating visceral performances that resonate deeply with performers and audiences alike.
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Burning Bones Physical Theatre has an exciting 2025 season planned, with more information at Frankie Mulinix’s website here.
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