By Itoro Umontuen | on November 20, 2021
By Dawn Montgomery and Itoro N. Umontuen | The Atlanta Voice
Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore prepares for a Georgia Press Club statement astatine the GPB Studios connected Tuesday, November 16, 2021. (Photo: Itoro N. Umontuen/The Atlanta Voice)
Friday afternoon, Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore released a connection expressing disappointment with the verdict handed down successful the proceedings of Kyle Rittenhouse. In her statement, Moore expressed sorrow for the victims. In the note, Moore said, “Justice has not been served, it has been denied.” However, it was removed from her societal media channels owed to the ferocious and idiosyncratic arguments successful the comments. Today, Moore released the pursuing statement, from her speech, clarifying her actions:
I americium truthful blessed to beryllium present with each of you. Thank you for being present today.
Before I begin, I privation to stock thing precise important with you and everyone tuning successful close now.
Like galore Americans, particularly radical of color, I felt the sting of injustice for Joseph Rosenbaun, Anthony Huber, and Gaige Grosskreutz.
These 3 quality souls and their families merit amended than what we witnessed
In response, past nighttime I posted a nationalist remark connected Facebook. I’m going to archer you close now, wherefore I took it down, due to the fact that arsenic everyone who knows maine and who has followed my TWO DECADES of PUBLIC SERVICE knows:
I person thing to hide. I ne'er have.
I removed the station aft seeing however radical were attacking EACH OTHER successful the comments. As a leader, I question to UNITE and I bash not privation a abstraction I make to beryllium utilized arsenic a instrumentality for radical to onslaught 1 another.
In each of this we indispensable not hide that 2 lives were mislaid and a 3rd everlastingly changed. We indispensable beryllium better.
As an ELECTED OFFICIAL successful the HOME of the CIVIL RIGHTS movement, I AM COMMITTED to PURSING JUSTICE and TO BUILDING A UNITED ATLANTA.
Living and serving successful this metropolis means I person a work to make harmless spaces and physique a BELOVED COMMUNITY that affirms and supports itself.
Today, with anticipation that cooler heads had prevailed, I reposted my archetypal station on with the connection I’m sharing with you now.
That’s wherefore I’m moving for Mayor Of this large city.
To unify us.
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