A Georgia criminal defense attorney is facing criminal charges more than a month after a road rage confrontation in Kennesaw was caught on video and shared widely online.
In decades past, the incident might have ended as little more than an embarrassing traffic dispute and a brief mention in a local police report. Instead, it became a reminder that smartphones, dashcams, surveillance cameras, and social media have fundamentally changed the consequences of public behavior. A few moments at a red light turned into a viral video, a public identification effort, statewide media coverage, and eventually criminal charges.
According to FOX 5 Atlanta, Richard Craven, 46, of Acworth, was booked into the Cobb County Jail after community tips helped Kennesaw police identify him as the man seen striking the driver’s side door and window of another vehicle during a confrontation in downtown Kennesaw…