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Packers Complete Safety Overhaul With Georgia’s Javon Bullard
Back in 2019, the Green Bay Packers revamped their safety position by signing Adrian Amos in free agency and using a first round pick on Darnell Savage.
Those two moves gave the Packers solid safety play during their run of three straight NFC North titles and two conference title appearances between 2019-2021.
The Packers have overhauled that position again, and hope it leads to high level production in 2024 — and beyond.
Green Bay signed safety Xavier McKinney in free agency last month. The Packers then selected Georgia safety Javon Bullard in the second round of Friday’s draft.
Now, there’s a good chance McKinney and Bullard will be Green Bay’s starting safeties when the Packers face Philadelphia in Week 1 in Brazil.
“Yeah, he’s a good football player. He’s very smart, knows how to play, knows how to make plays,” Pat Moore, the Packers’ Assistant Director of College Scouting said of Bullard. “I don’t think we took him with a specific spot in mind other than a good secondary player who can help us.”
Bullard is 5-foot-10 ½ and weighs 199 pounds. He ran the 40-yard dash in 4.45 seconds and had a terrific 20-yard shuttle time of 3.98 seconds.
Bullard played mostly slot corner in 2022 when the Bulldogs won the national championship. He had 3.5 sacks and seven tackles for loss that season, and was named Defensive MVP of the 2022 national championship game
The Bulldogs moved Bullard to safety in 2023 where he finished with career highs in tackles (56) and passes defensed (seven). He was also voted the top safety at the Senior Bowl.
While most teams view Bullard as a safety, his versatility made him attractive to the Packers.
“I can play all three positions in the secondary,” Bullard said. “Whatever you need me to play. I feel like I proved my versatility throughout this process, man, being able to cover slot guys and being able to cover tight ends and being able to get down in the box and get down-and-dirty with your running backs, things like that. so I feel like I can play all over.”
Georgia
Farmville man wanted for Greenville murder caught in Georgia
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) – A Farmville man wanted for a fatal shooting last month in Greenville has been caught in Georgia.
Greenville police say Jah’Quore Connor was arrested early this morning in Marietta, Georgia after barricading himself in a home.
Connor was wanted for the shooting death of Jahsijah Jahson that happened on April 15th.
Jahson’s body was found in the yard of a home on West 3rd Street.
Police have already charged Zy’quan Johnson, of Walstonburg, for the man’s murder.
Connor’s arrest was made possible with help from the State Bureau of Investigation, Marietta Police Department, and Cobb County Police Department, according to Greenville police.
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ECHR partially rules in favor of Georgia nationals in 2019 protest case
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) awarded partial satisfaction to Georgian protesters on Tuesday, citing procedural flaws in the government’s handling of a 2019 protest. The case concerned the excessive use of force by Georgian police during the dispersal of a protest in front of the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi on June 20 and 21, 2019.
In the case, the ECHR considered the violation of five articles of the European Convention on Human Rights which were brought forward by 26 applicants who had participated in the demonstration or were journalists reporting on it. In particular, the applicants raised their complaints in reliance of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment), Article 10 (Freedom of Expression), Article 11 (Freedom of Assembly and Association), article 13 (right to an effective remedy) and Article 38 (Examinations of the Case) of the Convention.
In its judgment, the court only found a partial violation of Article 3. In their application, the protestors had complained about the unjustified use of rubber bullets during the crackdown on the protest and further argued that no effective criminal investigation had been carried out. The court agreed with the applicants only about the procedural aspects of Article 3 stating that “the ongoing criminal investigation has fallen short of the requirement of effectiveness within the meaning of the procedural aspect of Article 3.” More specifically, the court cited numerous reasons, among them being the failure to adequately assess the anticipated escalation risk and the absence of appropriate charges despite years of investigation.
With regard to articles 10 and 11, the court found no violation, noting that the investigation by the Georgian authorities is still ongoing and in the court’s view feasible and therefore refrained from further examining the complaints. During the proceedings, it was also alleged that the Georgian government had failed to proactively inform the court of developments relevant to the case under Article 38, however, here too no violation was found.
The 2019 protest was sparked after a member of the Duma, the lower house of the federal assembly of Russia, had sat in the chair reserved for the speaker of the Georgian Parliament and delivered a speech during a session of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy. Diplomatic relations between Russia and Georgia have been complex and marked by conflict. In 2008, a war escalated between the two countries in a territorial dispute over the Georgian region of South Ossetia which has since been occupied by Russia.
As a result of the proceedings, Georgia was ordered to pay damages of up to €15.000 to four applicants, €5.000 ($5,37) to 18 applicants, and €1,800 ($1 ,934) to two applicants.
Georgia
Georgia Regulations Would Cut Agents' Licensing Course Load from 20 Hours to 8
The Georgia insurance commissioner is accepting comments on proposed rule changes that would cut the pre-licensing course load by almost two-thirds for personal lines agents.
“The primary purpose of the proposed changes to all Regulation Chapters … is to modernize and modify the regulations, increase departmental efficiency in delivering services, and bring them into conformity with industry best practices to the benefit of Georgia Consumers,” the commissioner’s office said in a bulletin.
The proposed changes, affecting parts of state Statute 120-2-3, would lower the course load from 20 hours to 8 hours.
The proposals are on file at the Administrative Procedure Division of the Office of Commissioner of Insurance, 708 West Tower, Floyd Building, Two Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Atlanta.
A hearing will be held May 15 at 1 p.m. in the hearing room at the commissioner’s office on the ninth floor of the West Tower.
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