Atlanta police were told to avoid the area where Secoriea Turner was fatally shot in the days leading up to the 8-year-old’s death, a Fulton County jury heard Wednesday.
The testimony came as trial began for Julian Conley, the man accused of fatally shooting the child near the burned-down Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks had been killed by an Atlanta police officer weeks earlier.
Armed groups had taken over the area at night, several witnesses testified, and jurors were shown surveillance footage of the makeshift roadblock set up during the summer of 2020 as civil unrest swept the city and the nation…