Last week, as we conducted our interview with District Attorney Fani Willis, three grieving families were awaiting news from her office related to their loved ones’ deaths at the hands of Atlanta police officers.
This week, the family of Deacon Johnny Hollman finally got their answer: A Fulton County grand jury has declined to bring charges against Kiran Kimbrough, the officer who shocked the 62-year-old with a Taser after a traffic incident in August 2023. Hollman collapsed at the scene and died at the hospital hours later.
While Hollman’s family and police accountability activists believed this to be an open-and-shut case, Willis told Capital B Atlanta that with police brutality cases it’s never that simple…