Six people were arrested Saturday during a protest through downtown Atlanta that turned violent, days after an activist was killed in a shootout with police that also left one officer wounded.
Some of the protesters set an Atlanta Police cruiser on fire, smashed the windows of a bank, threw rocks and lit fireworks in front of the building where the Atlanta Police Foundation is located, according to WXIA-TV, the NBC affiliate in the city.
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or an attorney to tell you that breaking windows or setting fires is not protesting, that is terrorism,” Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said in a press conference after the incident, according to WAGA-TV, the local Fox affiliate.