In many ways, the ribbon cutting of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center had all the makings of a typical ceremony: government officials, light refreshments and an actual ribbon.
But what Atlanta’s Democratic Mayor Andre Dickens said wasn’t so typical was what it took to get to Tuesday’s event, four years after the facility was first announced.
“I thought long and hard about how much of this speech I would devote to what we had to overcome to get this facility done,” he said, “whether I would speak about the opposition.”
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