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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Once the march was underway it took less than an hour for the police to declare it illegal, just as they did in 1965 during the March from Selma to Montgomery. Despite numerous stated commitments from religious leaders and city officials to honor the right to protest, armed riot police terrorized the crowd with tear gas grenades, attack dogs, clubs and ballistic shields.

    This comparison to the Selma march is really really bad reporting. It’s definitely not the same situation. Plus, is the second sentence talking about what happened in Atlanta or what happened during the Selma march? Because it very much sounds like the description of the Selma march, being used by the author to conflate those actions with what happened in Atlanta without providing an actual description of what the police in Atlanta did.

    I’m not defending the police, but it’s an awful article if they’re not even going to describe what actions the police took to reportedly infringe on the people’s right to protest.