Along Trump's journey to jail, Black Atlanta residents mix outrage with pride

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ATLANTA — Up and down Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard, Atlantans stopped what they were doing to witness history coming again to their community.

Former president Donald Trump was on his way to surrender on charges of having conspired to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. His motorcade’s route from Atlanta’s airport to the Fulton County Jail Thursday evening took him through the heart of predominantly Black neighborhoods with a recurring role in the nation’s civil rights struggle.

He passed Lovell Riddle, 39, at the corner of Lowery and TP Burruss Senior Drive, both named, like many of the streets in the area, for local Black pastors.

“I see them bringing people to Rice Street every day,” said Riddle, using the colloquial name for the Atlanta jail. “But this was like a big show, this was a circus. He had this big police escort and all of that. If it were me or any other Black man accused of what he is accused of, we would have already been under the jail and they would have thrown the keys away.”

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[orthoclad]

1. Well, now we know why he

had such a huge motorcade. He had to travel through "those people", you know, the ones he tried to deny housing to back in the 70s, the ones he tried to get executed.

I think he felt like he was traveling through a hostile country, frightened, insecure, enraged, whatever. Not "his" US. I hope the crowd made their feelings known to him.

Good article.

[William769]

2. But I heard they liked him because he was arrested.

[orthoclad]

3. Yeah, it made him a "thug",

in the fever dreams of MAGA.

I hope my sarcasm is taken properly.

[William769]

4. Me too.

[orthoclad]

5. Yeah. He was traveling

through "enemy territory". I'm surprised he didn't have air cover. Did he?