Atlanta Festival Appears Doomed
From Times Wire Reports
The party may be over for Freaknik, Atlanta’s annual spring festival for black college students. Shocked by TV footage of gangs of men groping women during the festival last month, the city’s welcoming committee for the street party is asking Mayor Bill Campbell to withdraw the city’s support. Freaknik has earned a reputation for producing traffic jams and sporadic looting. Four rapes, six sexual assaults and four shootings were reported during the event. Police made 481 arrests, 45 for felonies.
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