ALBANY — Dougherty County commissioners weighed in this week on the protests sparked by the killing of a black man by a Minneapolis, Minn., police officer and the calm of a weekend Albany event.
Commissioner Anthony Jones denounced a string of incidents, including other incidents in which black victims were killed and threatened in recent weeks. The soft-spoken Jones made the remarks at the end of a Tuesday commission meeting.
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