Police say viral footage shows 65-year-old Robert Burke allegedly threatening a security guard and shouting slurs in front of children.
A Georgia man captured on widely shared video verbally abusing a security guard and hurling racial slurs outside a Social Security office in suburban Atlanta has been arrested, authorities said. Gwinnett County Police identified the man as Robert Burke, 65, who was taken into custody following a separate disturbance one day after the confrontation that drew public outrage online. The incident occurred Jan. 14 at a Social Security office on Shackleford Road in Norcross, police confirmed.
Officers were initially called to the federal building after reports of a man making threats and aggressively berating people inside the office. Investigators said witnesses provided cellphone video showing Burke yelling profanities and insults as he was escorted out by a security guard. Police noted that multiple children were present during the encounter…