An Atlanta district attorney has dropped the battery and aggravated assault charges made against the six officers who forcefully arrested Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young.
On bodycam footage, officers are shown confronting two young Black adults, Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young, after the pair were out past curfew following protests over George Floyd's death.
An Atlanta district attorney has dropped the battery and aggravated assault charges made against the six officers who forcefully arrested Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young.
A group of officers will not be prosecuted in connection with a 2020 confrontation involving two students who were surrounded by police and shocked with stun guns over their alleged failure to obey a curfew implemented in the days after George Floyd’s death.