BREAKING NEWS – Atlanta, Georgia – Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms spoke out after a shooting in the city left two people dead, claiming members of the public had responded by taking videos at the scene instead of calling 911.
Bottoms also claimed people were posting information about the crime on social media rather than alerting city police.
“Just a reminder to the public to please call 911,” Bottoms said during a news conference. “We did start receiving phone calls but social media received information, and has received more information, quite frankly, than we have received through our 911 center. So for us to be able to appropriately respond and assess, we just ask if you can put down your camera, put down your phone, call 911 and then allow us to do what we do. People, me halfway on this. If you promise to start reporting crimes rather than filming them, then I will begin defunding the police, so they’ll be fewer of them to contact. Wait a minute, that didn’t come out right.”