{"id":1971944,"date":"2023-07-13T13:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialist-mayor-charged-with-burglary-returns-to-office-days-after-arrest\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:04:13","slug":"socialist-mayor-charged-with-burglary-returns-to-office-days-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialist-mayor-charged-with-burglary-returns-to-office-days-after-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Mayor Arrested for Burglary, Resumes Office Shortly After"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocialist-mayor-charged-with-burglary-returns-to-office-days-after-arrest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1971944&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Socialist Georgia Mayor Arrested for Burglarizing Home<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-socialist-is-on-track-to-be-buffalos-next-mayor-after-defeating-democratic-incumbent\/\" title=\"A Socialist Is On Track To Be Buffalo\u2019s Next Mayor After Defeating Democratic Incumbent\">socialist mayor<\/a> of South Fulton, Ga., returned to work this week, days after police <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/socialist-georgia-mayor-arrested-for-burglarizing-home\/\">arrested<\/a> him for entering a resident&#8217;s lake house.<\/p>\n<h3>Charged with Trespass and Burglary<\/h3>\n<p>Khalid Kamau, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/podcast\/politics\/khalid-kamau-socialism\/\">vocal<\/a> Democratic Socialist and cofounder of the Atlanta chapter of Black Lives Matter, is charged with first-degree trespass and burglary after a homeowner <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/socialist-georgia-mayor-arrested-for-burglarizing-home\/\">caught<\/a> him entering his home on Saturday.<\/p>\n<h3>Returning to City Council<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;We have never backed down from courageous conversations, but now is not the time for those discussions,&#8221; Kamau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/south-fulton-khalid-kamau-back-in-office\">said<\/a> upon his return Tuesday during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">city council<\/a> session. &#8220;We have city business to get to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He noted that &#8220;a lot has happened in the past few days&#8221; and he will &#8220;announce a time and place for those conversations to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Confrontation with Homeowner<\/h3>\n<p>Homeowner Jack Lecroy confronted Kamau on July 8 with his gun after he saw a security alert that someone was on his property. Kamau began to walk away from the house and Lecroy shouted for him to stop and wait for police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t have to listen to you, and you can\u2019t give me orders,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialist-georgia-mayor-arrested-for-burglarizing-home\/\" title=\"Socialist Georgia Mayor Arrested for Home Burglary\">socialist mayor yelled<\/a> in response, according to police reports. He then screamed profanities at the homeowner. He later said that he wanted to see the home because he&#8217;d like to live there and was aware that he was criminally trespassing.<\/p>\n<h3>Call for Resignation<\/h3>\n<p>Fellow Democrat Roger Bruce, a state representative, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/south-fulton-khalid-kamau-back-in-office\">said<\/a> &#8220;if he&#8217;s sincere about that, he would resign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He would resign and allow the city to do the work that needs to be done,&#8221; Bruce said.<\/p>\n<h3>Advocating for Socialism<\/h3>\n<p>Kamau has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/podcast\/politics\/khalid-kamau-socialism\/\">served<\/a> as the leader of the Atlanta chapter of Democratic Socialists of America and advocates for socialism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democratic Socialists believe our country should be run by real, working people\u2014not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialist-mayor-charged-with-burglary-returns-to-office-days-after-arrest\/\" title=\"Socialist Mayor Arrested for Burglary, Resumes Office Shortly After\">big corporations &#038; billionaires<\/a>,&#8221; Kamau says on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khalidcares.com\/socialism.html\">website<\/a>. He further calls for defunding police and cutting military spending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The socialist mayor of South Fulton, Ga., resumed work after being arrested for trespassing a resident&#8217;s lake house. Khalid Kamau, a vocal Democratic Socialist and Atlanta Black Lives Matter co-founder, faces charges of first-degree trespass and burglary for entering the homeowner&#8217;s house on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1971945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}