MACON, Ga. — Hundreds of people gathered Saturday in Macon, about 80 miles south of Atlanta, for another round of No Kings demonstrations. But the event abruptly ended when the local sheriff was invited up to address concerns about his agency’s cooperation with federal immigration officers.
She Keene, an organizer with the advocacy organization Macon Rising, told the crowd as she introduced Bibb County Sheriff David Davis that organizers had met with Davis and had a “civil” and “good dialogue” about things they both agreed and disagreed on. Keene asked him if he would participate in community outreach, saying, “he is here today.”
But protesters kept yelling, saying that “nobody wants to hear from him” before chanting “this is what democracy looks like.”
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