Atlanta’s top watchdog, Inspector General Shannon Manigault, announced Monday she will resign from the role after a bitter feud with Mayor Andre Dickens’ administration over the office’s authority.
Manigault said she and her staff have faced “threats, bullying, intimidation and harassment at the hands of people who have been the subjects of our investigations.”
“However much the people of the city of Atlanta want us to be here and want us to be doing our job, city leadership has made it crystal clear for them a real, functioning, effective Office of Inspector General is not welcome in Atlanta,” Manigault said Monday when she announced her resignation on the steps of City Hall…