City Beautiful

The Wendy’s went up in flames quickly. It was June 13, 2020, and the fast food restaurant on Atlanta’s Southside that had a day before been the site of Rayshard Brooks’s killing at the hands of a white police officer was now engulfed in a massive blaze. Demonstrations soon spread throughout the city and police mobilized to make numerous arrests. News networks and social media lit up with still images and videos of the turmoil. In response, an exasperated Mayor Keisha Lance Bott