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Atlanta-Area Prosecutor Asks FBI for Protection After Trump Urges Followers to Protest

HeadlineFeb 01, 2022

In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked the FBI to provide security after Trump called on his supporters at a weekend rally to target what he called “radical, vicious, racist prosecutors.” Last week, a judge approved Willis’s request to convene a special grand jury to investigate Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Willis is an African American woman.

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