Updated Monday at 7:50 a.m.
Riot police firing volleys of tear gas dispersed hundreds of demonstrators as a curfew began Sunday night, scattering a crowd that had protested for hours in downtown Atlanta over the deaths of George Floyd in Minnesota and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia.
Hundreds of police, Georgia National Guard troops and other forces took up positions around downtown Centennial Park, sealing off the area that was the epicenter of three nights of protests as all but a handful of the protesters disbanded.
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