The socialist mayor of South Fulton, Georgia, was arrested Saturday morning and charged with first-degree criminal trespass and burglary.
This from dailywire.com.
According to Fox News:
South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Saturday but was released later in the day after posting $11,000 bond.
The mayor reportedly entered a house that he thought was abandoned.
A statement from the City of South Fulton said:
The City of South Fulton is committed to upholding the law and ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their position, are subject to the same fair and just treatment.
As the investigation is still ongoing, we are unable to provide further details at this time.
According to WSB-TV after reviewing the police report:
The homeowner reportedly received a notification on his phone saying there had been movement on his property before 7 a.m.
The homeowner called the police and then approached Kamau as he was allegedly exiting the house and ordered him to “stay put,” the outlet says.
To which the mayor replied, according to the homeowner’s account:
Do you know who the f*** I am? I’m the Mayor, and I’ll wait for my police to get here and see what happens then.
According to WSB, the mayor was on his way to a dog park when he made the stop, and his version of events describes the homeowner telling him:
No motherf***ker, you stay right there.
And threatening to shoot him if he didn’t listen.
The mayor reportedly responded:
Are you going to shoot me while I’m walking away?
Reporters confronted Kamau as he was being escorted by officers, handcuffed, into a police car.
When asked why he was on the property, he said he:
[J]ust wanted to see the house.
He reportedly apologized to the owners, saying he:
[T]hought it was abandoned.
Final thoughts: The abandoned house explanation seems logical to me. Likely to be determined will be the only crime here is a black man being accused and arrested for a crime.
