A left-wing Georgia mayor is in hot water after he was arrested for entering a house not belonging to him that he claimed that he believed was abandoned, only to get a big surprise when the homeowner pulled a gun and held him until police arrived at the scene and took him into custody.
The incident went down on Saturday when Khalid Kamau, the mayor of the city of South Fulton was arrested and charged with first-degree burglary and criminal trespass after entering into the property on Cascade Palmetto Highway because he was allegedly interested in purchasing the home. He was released later in the day after posting an $11,000 bond with few details about the arrest being released.
“I just wanted to see the house,” the mayor told Atlanta’s Fox 5. “I do apologize to the owners. I thought it was abandoned. I apologize for the negative attention this has brought to our city.”
(Video: YouTube/Fox 5 Atlanta)
“The City of South Fulton is committed to upholding the law and ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their position, are subject to the same fair and just treatment,” the city said in a statement, declining to elaborate on the mayor’s arrest. “As the investigation is still ongoing, we are unable to provide further details at this time.”
A controversial figure who on the city’s website is billed as “America’s first #BlackLivesMatter organizer elected to public office,” Kamau sued the city council last year, claiming that it had violated the open records act and in March, city council members filed their own lawsuit demanding that he be removed from office for violating the city charter.
In April, an Easter egg hunt that he had organized at a local park was shut down by city authorities for not having a proper permit, leading him to accuse them of doing it to get back at him in what has become a running feud since he took office last year.
“I believe that a lot of this is retaliation on behalf of the police chief, whom I’ve had to have referred to the GBI for investigation,” Kamau said at the time.
“I hope that the spotlight that is on our city right now will highlight some of the inequities that have been happening,” the mayor told a Fox 5 reporter as he was being led away by the cops, adding “I think that’s for the voters to decide,” when asked if he was guilty of the charges.
“I do want to thank the South Fulton police and the staff of officers for their courteous and professional service throughout the day,” the mayor told reporters as he left the Fulton County Jail where he briefly held.
“With a population that is 92 percent African-American, South Fulton, Georgia is now the blackest big city in America. khalid is a mission to make America’s Blackest City Black. On Purpose — which means a city that is not just unapologetic about its demographics, but moving on purpose to be a laboratory for economic, housing and restorative justice policies aimed at improving the lives of African Americans,” the mayor’s bio on the city’s website reads.
Back while he was still a councilman, member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Kamau said “Capitalism won’t save black people” in an interview with far-left Jacobin magazine.
(Image: Screengrab/Facebook)
“I am a councilman in the blackest city in America — we are 89.7 percent African American. A system that is built on exploitation, in a country that is built on the exploitation of my people for four hundred years — that system can never serve us. It would never liberate all of us. And I am for my people’s liberation,” he said. “It is not necessarily important to call myself a democratic socialist, but the principles that democratic socialism espouses — it’s important for those to become the politics of my people because that is the surest way for our liberation.”
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