ATLANTA (AP) — Two police officers have been fired and three others placed on desk duty over excessive use of force during a protest arrest incident involving two college students, Atlanta’s mayor said Sunday.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said at a news conference that she and Police Chief Erika Shields made the decision after reviewing body-camera footage of a Saturday night incident that first gained attention from video online and on local news.
The mayor said the young man attended Morehouse College and the young woman was a student at Spelman College.
Dramatic video from seven officers’ body cameras released by police Sunday night shows officers taking another young man into custody, along a line of cars stopped downtown.
The mayor said she delayed a news conference by several hours Sunday to review all the body-camera footage because she and Shields wanted to be certain about what happened.
