Atlanta City Council members receive death threats over training center vote

Atlanta City Council members say they are receiving death threats after voting in favor of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center last week.

Some council members say it’s gotten so bad they now have police posted in front of their homes.

One of those council members who says he’s on the receiving end of some of those threats is Michael Julian Bond. He says anonymous callers have used racist language for Black people, even wished for his death. He says he’s never seen or heard such hostility in all his years on city council.

“Council members have actually had their lives threatened,” Bond said.

He says he and other members who voted in favor of the training center for police and first responders have gotten death threats ever since that controversial vote.

“They said all kinds of ugly things to me,” he said.

It isn’t clear exactly who is making those threats, but Bond says some even invoked the name of his father, civil rights leader Julian Bond.

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