{"id":542970,"date":"2021-05-27T13:51:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542970"},"modified":"2021-05-27T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:51:08","slug":"atlanta-mayoral-candidate-who-voted-to-defund-police-has-his-suv-stolen-in-front-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atlanta-mayoral-candidate-who-voted-to-defund-police-has-his-suv-stolen-in-front-of-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Mayoral Candidate Who Voted To Defund Police Has His SUV Stolen In Front Of Him"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fatlanta-mayoral-candidate-who-voted-to-defund-police-has-his-suv-stolen-in-front-of-him%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=542970&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Antonio-Brown-1130x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An Atlanta City Council member running for mayor who had voted to withhold $73 million from Atlanta\u2019s police department budget had his SUV stolen in front of him on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9820359281437\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Atlanta councilman Antonio Brown, who voted to defund police, has car stolen <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ivfVfRFbp8\">https:\/\/t.co\/ivfVfRFbp8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oIdp1yX9tj\">pic.twitter.com\/oIdp1yX9tj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1397906380292562950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the police report, on Wednesday Brown had parked and exited his 2016 Mercedes 450 \u2014which has keyless push-to-start ignition \u2014 to speak to community leader Ben Norman when \u201cseveral males entered his unlocked car and drove away with it.\u201d Brown told police four children no older than 12, with the youngest roughly 6 or 7 years old, piled into his car.<\/p>\n<p>Norman stated, \u201cWe tried to go there and maybe try to get the kid out of the car. So, I\u2019m like, what do you do to a kid, right? He had already starting figuring out\u2026I mean they had plans, they knew what they were going to do. He hit the gas and he pulled out, peeled out, and took off,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/theives-steal-car-mayoral-candidate-antonio-brown\">Fox5 Atlanta<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne kid was in the driver\u2019s seat. Ben attempted to open the door to get him out of the car. He fought with Ben. I then engaged and tried to get him out of the car. The three other kids were trying to figure out how to get in the car or stay out of the car. He started to hit on the gas. Ben let go,\u201d Brown said, adding, \u201cAs he started to speed up, and I knew that if I had not let go, I knew I probably could have killed myself because he was going so fast, I would have started to tumble. And I would have hurt him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe councilman was also among the seven councilmembers who voted in support of an ordinance to withhold $73 million of the Atlanta Police Department\u2019s budget until Bottoms\u2019 administration drafted a plan to reinvent the culture of policing in the city,\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/city-councilmans-car-stolen-while-attending-ceremony-in-nw-atlanta\/6OID7FPTVJE35HITXYEHNKVCIM\/\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a> wrote of Antonio Brown, who was elected to the Council in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/saportareport.com\/atlanta-city-council-approves-budget-it-does-not-defund-the-police\/sections\/reports\/maggie\/\">said at the time<\/a>, \u201cWe all love our brothers and sisters that work tirelessly to keep our community safe. But we must do the work together to reimagine public safety. I\u2019ve been speaking to the young people. These young people feel so disengaged from you guys. This is our opportunity to show the community we hear them, that we\u2019re not just responding with our words, but by our actions, that we don\u2019t just hear them, we see them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finance Committee Chair Jennifer Ide stated, \u201cIt\u2019s not just necessarily that there are police officers, a few people who aren\u2019t following the rules. It\u2019s that we need to think about what the rules are, and we need to think about where our allocation is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown himself is under indictment on federal fraud charges. \u201cProsecutors said the councilman lied about his income on applications to obtain loans and credit cards used for personal purchases,\u201d the Journal-Constitution reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Atlanta City Council member running for mayor who had voted to withhold $73 million from Atlanta\u2019s police department budget had his SUV stolen in front of him on Wednesday.Atlanta &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313278,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Antonio-Brown-1130x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Atlanta Mayoral Candidate Who Voted To Defund Police Has His SUV Stolen In Front Of Him","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Antonio-Brown-1130x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Atlanta Mayoral Candidate Who Voted To Defund Police Has His SUV Stolen In Front Of Him","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542970","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}