Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim could get $2 million settlement

This time 4 years in the past, America was on fireplace actually and figuratively. The world had watched George Floyd and numerous different Black our bodies be killed or bodily abused by a gaggle of women and men who swore to “serve and shield”. We had been all sick of it and we stood up, made noise, and exercised our American proper to say “F**okay this method and the individuals who codify it.”

The irony of the protests of summer time 2020 is that in exercising these rights, the system and the individuals who codified it took to the streets to show our level. Police enacted egregious and overzealous violence in opposition to those that had been denouncing them, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy of the very worst type, and extra harmless individuals had been harm or killed.

Two of these individuals had been Messiah Younger and Taniyah Pilgrim who had been college students at Morehouse School and Spelman School respectively. Younger and Pilgrim turned the topic of shock when a viral video circulated the web displaying them being dragged from their automobile and tased by unruly Atlanta cops as they tried to make their means by means of a closely congested space of downtown. Sadly however unsurprisingly, most of these officers had been African-American…

What’s extra galling is that though arrest warrants had been issued for all of the “males” concerned, the prison costs had been ultimately dropped. God forbid that “blue lives” be held to the identical normal of habits as the remainder of society.

In keeping with a brand new report by WSB-TV, the Atlanta Metropolis Council is ready to vote on a settlement for Younger and Pilgrim to award them $2 million every. The vote will happen on Monday, July 1. BOSSIP could have protection of the result as quickly because it turns into out there.

We hope they get each purple cent.