He was bulldozed to death when Atlanta cleared his homeless camp. Will there ever be justice?

www.theguardian.com

The city, citing complaints, had ordered the homeless encampment “decommissioned”– just four days before Martin Luther King Jr Day celebrations less than a block away.

Witnesses say the sweep felt rushed. A woman shouted at the front loader’s driver as he rumbled down the alley from the east end. Just yards away stood Martin Luther King’s birthplace and the white marble tombs of him and Coretta Scott King.

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The front loader’s bucket screeched against the pavement as it bore down on the first of four tents, red and white with a blue tarp draped across the back.

Cornelius was inside, unaware of what was unfolding. Only after people started screaming did the front loader stop moving forward – but it was too late.