Mayor of Atlanta Kasim Reed speaks at the NAHJ conference.
Almost a year after two student journalists were arrested, the mayor of Atlanta, Kasim Reed, announced that the charges they were facing had been dropped.
The mayor addressed the matter at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ regional conference Saturday morning after Emory journalism professor Hank Klibanoff asked why the charges against the two student journalists had not already been dropped.
The mayor said that he had not addressed the matter because he had not heard anything about it in the press or from his assistants. He assured that had he known about it he would have acted sooner.
The two students, one from Georgia State’s The Signal and the other from Kennesaw State University’s University’s The Sentinel, were covering an Occupy Atlanta protest and were arrested after the police claimed they were obstructing traffic.
