City Council Member Michael Julian Bond Provides Remarks During Full Council Meeting on June 1
— Post 1 At-Large Council member Michael Julian Bond provided the following remarks during the June 1 City Council meeting:
“I just want to briefly comment on the activities that have taken place in our city over the weekend.
I believe that this is the time for the city of and the state of Georgia to come to the forefront and show the country on how we’ve best done things here – through the “ Way.”
So, I hope that we as a city, along with our partners at the county and the state level, will reach out to our partners who are organizers who are peacefully demonstrating to work on solutions.
So, I want to applaud our mayor, our police chief, the governmental partners who assisted and continue to assist us in keeping the peaceful protesters and our citizens and our city safe.
I hope that City Council, along with the administration and our governmental partners, will reach out to make sure that we are moving forward in tradition of this city, to be a beacon of peace, of recognizing civil rights and progress and that we will do so as soon as possible.
