By: Maximillian Boudreaux Two Atlanta students were pulled from their vehicle by police and tased by stun guns while stuck in traffic caused by the protest over George Floyd’s death according to a lawsuit filed last Thursday.   The federal lawsuit indicated that Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young, two young students at historically Black colleges in Atlanta, were assaulted by police and arrested. They also accused one officer of dangerously intensifying the issue by falsely claiming the pair had a gun.   “Accountability is what relieves pain and brings peace, and unfortunately there has been no accountability,” Mawuli Mel Davis, an attorney for Young, said.  Footage of the May 2020 incident has been circulating widely online. The video shows officers screaming at Pilgrim and […]

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