Tuesdays For Troy Davis
April 18, 2008 at 3:54 pm by Joeff Davis in Scene & Herd
PROTEST IN L5P: Despite a chronic police shortage, Atlanta still managed to have three cops available to ticket a peaceful protestor on Tuesday. (Photo by Joeff Davis)
Last Tuesday in Little Five Points, Amnesty International held another of its public “Tuesdays for Troy†rallies – an effort to draw attention to and stop the pending execution of Troy Anthony Davis.
Davis was sentenced to death for the 1989 murder of a Savannah police officer. Although seven of nine witnesses who identified Davis as the killer have changed their testimony and there is no physical evidence linking Davis to the murder, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled four-to-three in March not to grant him a new trial. The day before the rally, the state affirmed its decision. Because of Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on Wednesday lifting a nationwide moratorium on lethal injections, Georgia can now set a date for Davis’s execution.
The demonstration was small, only about seven or eight people holding up signs and distributing flyers along Moreland Ave. The event ended abruptly after a protester was surrounded by police and ticketed for standing in the road while handing flyers to drivers in stopped cars.
(Additional text by Andisheh Nouraee)
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April 19th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Didn’t you get the memo? APD will only arrest/question those potential perpertrators who appear to be be:
A) Harmless white folks, or
B) Middle Class and able to pay police tickets…
because they ain’t getting paid enough to get their asses shot off. The Atlanta PD has got a lot on their plate (that Shirley ain’t paying them to fix) so they are going to (generally) take the path of least resistance. Hippies in L5P, included.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Would you prefer they focus on harmless black folks?
May 10th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Although I believe Troy is innocent, it is irrelevant to the broader issue of state sanctioned murder. Either we value life or we don’t. By giving license to murder (military or police action) we create a society wherein the lines blur. Who says it is okay now, but perhaps not later? The Nazis tried at Nurenberg said they were only following orders. This was true for them at the time, but not later. Only God has the right to take life, not man.