Keisha Lance Bottoms
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Won’t Run for Re-Election
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Megan Varner / Getty Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will not run for re-election this year. On late Thursday night (May 6), the Democratic Mayor made the announcement that she has no plans to seek re-election as the city Mayor this year. Citing that while she still intends to make a difference, the next season of her life will not include being in the office of the Mayor, and she added that the decision was an emotional and difficult one to make. “As (husband) Derek and I have given thoughtful prayer and consideration to the season now before us, it is with deep emotions that I hold my head high, and choose not to seek another term as Mayor,” Bottoms wrote in a letter published online. “While I am not yet certain of what the future holds, I trust that...
Georgia Gov. Kemp Suing A Black Woman For Trying To Keep Atlanta Safe During Coronavirus Pandemic
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Georgia’s Governor Kemp is suing Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms because she’s trying to keep her city safe. The man who cheated, allegedly, in his race with Stacey Abrams has an issue with the ATL’s mayor’s mandate that residents wear masks to help flatten the coronavirus curve. Yes, Georgia is a COVID-19 hotspot with cases and deaths on the rise. Nevertheless, Kemp, who is a Trump boot shiner, issued an executive order banning counties from mandating its residents to wear masks. Reports the New York Times: On Friday, a day after suing the mayor of Atlanta for mandating virus-fighting rules that were stricter than his own, Gov. Brian Kemp said he would not stand down as the mayor’s “disastrous policies threaten the lives and livelihood of our citizens.” Mr...
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Tests Positive for COVID-19
Source: BET2020 / Getty The coronavirus pandemic is anything but a hoax. Today (July 6), Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms revealed that she has tested positive for COVID-19. COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive. — Keisha Lance Bottoms (@KeishaBottoms) July 6, 2020 Mayor Bottoms took to Twitter to reveal her diagnosis. “COVID-19 has literally hit home,” she tweeted this evening. “I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive.” Lance Bottoms has been in the thick of it, guiding Atlanta through the coronavirus pandemic and countless protests after the murder of George Floyd as well as Rayshard Brooks. Soon after breaking the news, she was a guest on MSNBC and spoke about the ramifications of her predicament. “This is startling for me because we’...
Atlanta Cops Reportedly BIG MAD, Call Out Sick In Response To Garrett Rolfe Being Charged
Source: Christian Science Monitor / Getty Some members of the Atlanta PD are BIG MAD because one of their own deservingly so got slapped with murder charges. Following fired Atlanta PD officer Garrett Rolfe being hit with 11 charges following the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. According to insiders within the force, there was an “unusual number” amount of officers calling out “sick” and not even responding to calls in several of the city zones. When news of the “call outs” hit social media, the Atlanta Police Department was prompted to actually issue a statement on Twitter addressing the issue calling the claims inaccurate. According to the tweet, the “department was experiencing a higher than usual number of call-outs with the incoming shift,” and they had enough resources to handle a...
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Checks Atlanta Residents Who Don’t Obey COVID-19 Guidelines
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty While the state of Georgia has been in continual stages of reopening amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has urged her city’s residents to ease back to normal. Over the weekend, a large house party was one of many weekend events from the past holiday weekend, prompting Mayor Bottoms to check those who aren’t obeying the guidelines but giving praise to those who are doing so. TMZ reports: Here’s the deal … someone decided it was a good idea to host a massive rager in Atlanta over Memorial Day Weekend, and the shindig was billed as a private, topless mansion party, with over 800 people attending before police shut it down. Videos from inside the bash show revelers packed inside the mansion like sardines, topless dancers twerking in fro...
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Calls Murder of Ahmaud Arbery a Modern Day “Lynching”
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty If Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has proven anything throughout this COVID-19 pandemic it’s that she’ll keep it as 100 as a big face Benji. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that our new favorite mayor is calling the murder of Ahmaud Arbery what it is: a lynching. During an interview on CNN with Jake Tapper, Mayor Keisha bluntly stated her opinion on the matter saying, “It’s heartbreaking that it’s 2020 and this was a lynching of an African American man.” No lies detected. Ahmaud Arbery was murdered while jogging on February 23rd by two white men who claimed that Arbery fit the description of someone breaking into homes and stealing property. But it wasn’t until the video of the murder was released months later and outraged Americans demanded j...
