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A pair of Atlanta police officers who were filmed tasering two college students during Black Lives Matter protests in the city were reinstated this week.
Spelman College junior
Taniyah Pilgrim and
Messiah Young, a senior at Morehouse College, were tased after police officials pulled them from a car in downtown Atlanta during a May 31 protest. Video footage of the incident quickly went viral at a time when criticism of police treatment of African Americans was heightened in the wake of Minneapolis officers’ May 25 killing of
George Floyd.
Atlanta Police officers Mark Gardner and Ivory Streeter, who were filmed tasering two college students during Black Lives Matter protests in the city, were reinstated Monday. (Atlanta Police Dept.)