However, the Atlanta mayor had a very different story to tell when interviewing with MSNBC this past Friday. According to Bottoms, Georgia’s reopening back in March led to crime rises in Atlanta. The Democrat mayor also spoke to MSNBC about a supposed “epidemic” of gun violence and her work to get jobs to unemployed Atlanta residents.
Finally, Mayor Bottoms denied that police officers in her city are apprehensive about responding to crime in light of social unrest since 2020.
What needs to change?
Yesterday, Georgia GOP Governor Brian Kemp criticized the Atlanta mayor’s remarks on MSNBC.
Kemp charged that Bottoms is faulting everyone but herself for lawlessness in Georgia’s capital city. The Republican governor also made sure to point out that Democrats’ decisions to treat crime with kid gloves and punish police ultimately engendered surges in lawlessness.
Governor Kemp finally declared that reopening Georgia, getting young people back in school, and returning to normal life did not create Atlanta’s current crime crisis.
