[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]- Taniyah Pilgrim, 21, and Messiah Young, 23, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday
- The suit accuses Atlanta cops of assault, false arrest and says one cop dangerously escalated the confrontation by falsely claiming the pair had a gun
- The city, nine officers and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms are defendants
- The two students were driving home on May 30 2020 when they got stuck in traffic amid protests over the police murder of George Floyd
- Police bodycam footage captured officers shouting, tasering and dragging them from their car as they screamed and asked what they had done wrong
- Six cops were charged over the incident, two were fired then reinstated
| Two Black college students sue a Black mayor and six policemen, five of whom are also Black — so clearly racism isn’t the problem. |
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