Atlanta 'defund the police' backer has car stolen -- by kids in broad daylight: reports
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An Atlanta city councilman - who is aiming to be the city's next mayor - had his car stolen by children in broad daylight Wednesday, according to reports.
Councilman Antonio Brown was attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at an event in northeast Atlanta around noon when at least four kids jumped into his car and took off, FOX 5 of Atlanta reported.
"You don't immediately think, 'Oh, these kids are going to steal my car,'" Brown said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The incident occurred amid a recent crime wave in the city. Brown, who joined the city's mayoral race less than three weeks ago, is running on a campaign of "reimagining public safety," the paper reported.
Last year, he voted in support of an ordinance to withhold $73 million from the budget of the Atlanta Police Department. The ordinance was narrowly voted down.
Brown said the thieves jumped in his vehicle Wednesday after he got out to speak with community leader Ben Norman. He noted his white Mercedes-Benz coupe has keyless push-to-start ignition and he failed to realize it had been started, reports said.
The councilman described the kids as being between ages 6 and 12, FOX 5 reported.
"One kid was in the driver's seat. Ben attempted to open the door to get him out of the car. He fought with Ben. I then engaged and tried to get him out of the car. The three other kids were trying to figure out how to get in the car or stay out of the car. He started to hit on the gas," Brown said.
Brown added that he held on to the car in an attempt to stop them and was dragged about a block down the road before letting go.
"As he started to speed up, and I knew that if I had not let go, I knew I probably could have killed myself because he was going so fast, I would have started to tumble. And I would have hurt him," the councilman said.
Brown doesn't plan on filing charges against the kids, who he says acted out of desperation, Atlanta's WSB-TV reported.
"This is a generational poverty issue. These kids, it's 12:30 in the afternoon. Why aren't they in school? Why aren't we enforcing systems to ensure that if they are not in school, they're in recreational centers?" he said.
Atlanta police are investigating.
Brown is under indictment on federal fraud charges related to alleged incidents that occurred in the years prior to him winning the council seat in 2019, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Isn't irony fun?!?
Don't see any irony. Please explain.
If you can't see any irony here, then it would be a monumental waste of time and bandwidth to try and explain it to you.
Carry on!
You don't see any either huh?
Ozzwald....I'm curious
The other day you posted to me that the Jihad squad had profusely apologized many times for their anti semetic comments.
I asked you to show proof of that, and to this day, you haven't.
Why is that?
I do see it.
And have a certain degree of pity for those who simply can't or won't.
It's not my fault you are too lazy to look it up for yourself.
Yet you are unable to explain it? That's why I find it so questionable about you actually seeing it.
Because it isn't true?
That's my guess.
Now, that is just a silly assumption on your part.
I CAN explain it.
And? Who cares?
You claimed it...you provide the proof.
That's the way things are supposed to work on here, right...at least that is what the leftists say.
By your deflection, it looks like you recognized your inabilities to provide any proof.
Ding ding ding
We have a winner
Congrats, Tex, at being right...yet again.
Evidence shows otherwise.
Obviously you, since you keep replying...
Not in a right wing thread it isn't. Just ask Texan1211 who is refusing to prove his own statement.
but I am not the one looking for a rather obvious definition of irony.
I am sorry that recognizing irony is too hard for some fine folks.
My question was posed to YOU, not Texan.
I guess the headers on the posts telling us who is posting and to who the post is addressed to is mind-numbingly difficult.
I've found that they will try ANY distraction to get the conversation away from their short comings. Happens every day on here from the left.
That, and the need for lastworditis.
It's chronic.
My answer is the same as his.
So you have nothing.
Maybe you should stop pretending you do.
It is indeed! Lol!
Textbook Karma.
Definitely the Karma he deserved.
Because desperate people always steal Mercedes-Benz coupes. It is the new status symbol for the downtrodden.
Let the "kids" off the hook.
Sounds smart---allow them to see that there are no consequences for stupid, illegal actions.
Wouldn't want them thinking that crime may pay!
She would have had to ask help from the very people she wants defunded.
I wonder if he still thinks that's a good plan. I wonder if anyone in the media will ask him.
What desperation? Were they desperate for a ride to the country club? Were they going to the supermarket to exchange the car for a loaf of bread?
He declared, without knowing anything about the actual kids . . .
Anyway, there are a lot of poor kids in the world - and that is something we should try to change - but they manage to get through the day without stealing cars. Sometimes a kid does a wild thing because wild things are fun. Not every act of chaos is rooted in economic desperation.
Is school even open? Is physical attendance required? Seems like there are good reasons a kid might not be in school these days. Maybe ask the school board. Maybe ask the teachers union. Maybe ask their parents - if you can find them.
For some progressives (or people just trying to make a career in government), everything is someone else's fault, and all problems can be cured with a government facility. Apparently, he wants to make it mandatory. "Enforce systems?"
Sometimes people get what they deserve