State Attorney General demands answers after heated College Park City Council meeting

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — The state attorney general now wants answers following a heated incident at a College Park city council meeting.

Video from the Friday meeting showed police ejecting a large group of people from the meeting.

“It was out of order, it was chaos,” Dr. Chisulo Ajanaku told Channel 2′s Audrey Washington. “I said let me get out of here. It’s a mess.”

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The special meeting was originally held to censure Mayor Bianca Motley Broom for alleged disruptive behavior. Mayor Pro-Tem Roderick Gay said the mayor’s husband led verbal outbursts from the gallery.

“Gave out an explicit and incited the group that he had brought,” Roderick Gay, Mayor Pro-Tem Ward IV.

On Wednesday, Mayor Bianca Motley Broom denied that accusation.

“That did not happen. My husband was upset. He certainly was,” Motley Broom told Channel 2′s Audrey Washington.

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At one point during the meeting, the interim city manager instructed police to clear the room, while city business was discussed.

“Had we not removed the group we may have been looking at a situation where it would have broken out into a riot, or someone was harmed,” said city councilmember Jamelle E. McKenzie.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s office is stepping in after residents said College Park elected officials violated transparency laws at the meeting; specifically the Open Records and Open Meetings Acts.

“We have to operate in a space where transparency and a responsibility to the public is paramount,” Motley Broom added.

The city attorney has 10 days to respond to the AG’s inquiry.

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