ATLANTA (AP) — Two Atlanta police officers who were fired after video showed them using stun guns on two college students pulled from a car in traffic during a large protest against police brutality are looking to get their jobs back.
Bottoms and Shields have said they reviewed body camera footage from the May 30 incident and decided to immediately fire the officers and place three others on desk duty.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard brought criminal charges on June 2 against Gardner, Streeter and four other officers involved in the incident.
Pilgrim and Young, who are dating, are students at different historically black colleges near downtown Atlanta.
Neither Bottoms nor the police department responded to a request for comment late Monday, the Atlanta for the college students have said their clients were caught in traffic caused by a protest over the May 25 police custody death of George Floyd in Minnesota.
