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Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio removed and burned a Black Lives Matter sign at Asbury United Methodist Church, one of Washington, D.C.'s oldest Black houses of worship. Tarrio was arrested on January 4, 2021, upon entering Miami on additional gun charges. [38] Police release tear gas outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021
In 2021, a series of mass shootings struck massage parlors in Atlanta and the surrounding area. Eight people were killed and a ninth person was wounded. A suspect was arrested on the same day as the incidents in Crisp County, south of Atlanta. [98] In 2021, a police training center that critics have called Cop City became
Capitol Police, local D.C. police, the FBI's Washington Field Office, and a National Guard quick-response team all responded to the scene. After ramming the car into officers, Green exited the vehicle and brandished a knife at officers, and was fatally shot by police. [67] [68] [69] [70]
The motive for the destruction is unknown. Local police stated that the toppling is a possible hate crime. [388] Monument to the 77th New York Volunteer Infantry (Union Army unit) Saratoga Springs: New York Jul 16, 2020 (discovered) Statue was torn off pedestal and destroyed. The motive and perpetrator behind the destruction are both unknown.
1877 - Washington Seminary established. 1878 - Southern Medical College established. [5] 1879 Augusta Institute moves from Augusta to Atlanta and is renamed Atlanta Baptist Seminary. [14] Atlanta Building and Loan Association established. [15] 1880 Abyssinian Library established. [16] Population: 37,409; Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's ...
The Atlanta campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman invaded Georgia from the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tennessee , beginning in May 1864, opposed by the Confederate general ...
Police used tear gas and flash-bang grenades Monday to halt a march against building an Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center that opponents call “Cop City.” More than 400 people ...
View in Atlanta, Georgia, 1864. The city of Atlanta, Georgia, in Fulton County, was an important rail and commercial center during the American Civil War.Although relatively small in population, the city became a critical point of contention during the Atlanta Campaign in 1864 when a powerful Union Army approached from Union-held Tennessee.