The headquarters of CNN in Atlanta was boarded up Friday in anticipation of possibly destructive protests set off after the death of Rayshard Brooks last week.
Images posted on Twitter by Townhall reporter Julio Rosas showed fences guarding the founding site of the national news network.
“CNN has put up a fence outside its HQ after the building was attacked during the riots in Atlanta a few weeks ago,” Rosas tweeted from Atlanta.
CNN has put up a fence outside its HQ after the building was attacked during the riots in Atlanta a few weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/Mdabg9qmiM
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) June 19, 2020
On May 29, hundreds surrounded the CNN headquarters in Atlanta and smashed windows before clashing with police inside the network’s building. Protesters climbed atop CNN signs during the May protests and spray-painted messages on the property.
Rosas confirmed that both private and public security were protecting the CNN building as massive crowds march in Atlanta. Rosas told the Washington Examiner that the protests have been peaceful so far.
Thousands of protesters poured into the streets of the Georgia capital today to commemorate the death of Brooks, a 27-year-old black man who was killed during a traffic stop on June 12.
Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe has been charged with murder in the death of Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot. In a video of the police stop, Brooks can be seen scuffling with two police officers before shooting a Taser at one of the officers who fired the fatal shots.
The large demonstration was primarily organized by One Race, a faith-based group in Atlanta seeking “to displace the spirit of racism and release a movement of racial reconciliation across Atlanta, the Southeast, and the nation.”
“The hurt, outrage and pain is deeply felt because of the violence we have seen unfold toward people of color in the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery,” One Race co-director Josh Clemons said ahead of the protests.
