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Atlanta Police Department. The Atlanta Police Department (APD) is a law enforcement agency in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. The city shifted from its rural-based Marshal and Deputy Marshal model at the end of the 19th century. In 1873, the department was formed with 26 officers. Thomas Jones was elected the first Atlanta Chief of Police by ...
RELATED: Ex-Atlanta police officer, Oliver Simmonds, on trial for deadly gas station shooting Oliver Simmonds stands trial for the murder of 18-year-old D'Ettrick Griffin in Fulton County Superior ...
There have been many police chiefs of the Atlanta Police Department in the history of Atlanta, Georgia United States. The city shifted from a rural, Marshal/Deputy Marshal model in 1873. The current police chief is Darin Schierbaum. The city conducted a nationwide search for a permanent chief. Schierbaum succeeded former police chief Rodney N ...
The Kodak Building and the Atlanta Eagle on Ponce de Leon Avenue, 2021. The Atlanta Eagle is a gay bar that was established in Atlanta in the mid-1980s. [note 1] According to a 2020 report by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, the bar had become "a place of prominence in the LGBTQ community, significant as a site for public social interaction".
ATLANTA - Atlanta police investigators are seeking the public's help in locating a man who, as seen on surveillance video, fired at least five rounds into a gas station off Metropolitan Parkway in ...
(Atlanta Police Department | FOX 5) Simmonds declined a plea deal offered before the trial, which would have required him to serve 20 years, with 10 in prison and 10 on probation. The trial's ...
Deaths. Rayshard Brooks. On the night of June 12, 2020, Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old African American man, was confronted by officers of the APD and was shot by Atlanta Police Department (APD) officer Garrett Rolfe. APD officer Devin Brosnan was responding to a complaint that Brooks was asleep in a car in a Wendy's restaurant drive-through lane.
The George Floyd protests in Atlanta were a series of protests occurring in Atlanta, the capital and largest city of Georgia, United States.The protests were part of the George Floyd protests and, more broadly, the 2020–2021 United States racial unrest, which began shortly after the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.