Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of activist Eva Davis and DeKalb County Sheriff Ray Bonner discussing the way that welfare fraud warrants were served in the public housing community of East Lake Meadows two days previously, Atlanta, Georgia, March 14, 1973

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Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Title:
Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of activist Eva Davis and DeKalb County Sheriff Ray Bonner discussing the way that welfare fraud warrants were served in the public housing community of East Lake Meadows two days previously, Atlanta, Georgia, March 14, 1973
Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Contributor to Resource:
Davis, Eva, 1935 or 1936-2012
Bonner, Ray
Date of Original:
1973-03-14
Subject:
Police brutality--Georgia--Atlanta
Welfare fraud--Georgia--Atlanta
Public housing--Georgia--
East Lake Meadows (Atlanta, Ga.)
People:
Davis, Eva, 1935 or 1936-2012
Bonner, Ray
Location:
United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, East Lake, 33.75261, -84.30437
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
Medium:
moving images
news
unedited footage
Type:
MovingImage
Format:
video/mp4
Description:
In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from March 14, 1973, the manner in which welfare fraud warrants were served two days previously in the public housing community of East Lake Meadows is discussed by resident and activist Eva Davis, and by DeKalb County Sheriff Ray Bonner, in Atlanta, Georgia.
The first clip shows one of the buildings in East Lake Meadows. The camera pans down to show a group of people, most of whom are black. The group probably consists of East Lake Meadows residents and some reporters. Two unidentified white men in the group appear to be the same reporters who will later interview Sheriff Bonner. Mrs. Davis, speaking of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department, says, "We call them quite often when we are being robbed, our senior citizens are being knocked down and pocketbooks [taken] away from them, our doors being broken into in our home, we will call them. You know what they ask us? 'Where do you live?'" Mrs. Davis goes on to say that when residents answer that they live in East Lake Meadows, the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department instructs them to call the Atlanta police instead. Mrs. Davis states that when residents follow these instructions, the Atlanta police take an hour to arrive, and sometimes do not come at all. Other residents voice their agreement. Mrs. Davis concludes, "And so if they can't come to East Lake Meadows when we call and we're in deadly need, our lives are at stake, what in the hell did they come out here for yesterday, doing us like they did? If they can't come out here to protect us, why come out here and harass and scare us to death?" Another resident voices her agreement.
In the next clip, the two unidentified reporters interview Sheriff Bonner outdoors in front of an office building. There is no audio in this clip.
The next clip shows Sheriff Bonner apparently addressing one of the journalists by name, saying, "Mr. Gorman, there [was] no unduly force used. We did bust in one door, on my authorization, due to the fact that they said these people were not at home, and left home about seven o'clock in the morning and didn't ... get back home till about eleven o'clock at night, yet the children were out running around, so we felt like there was someone in the house, and that was the only house we went into by force, sir."
One of the journalists asks from offscreen, "What about the armaments?"
Sheriff Bonner replies, "Sir, I feel like that when we go into a situation, there's been as much controversy as this has been, that the men are due to be protected, and of course we did arm our people with shotguns, as well as some of the other officers were armed with shotguns in the event if we did have problems."
Title supplied by cataloger.
Supporting information was taken from the following source: The Atlanta Constitution, 15 March 1973:8A. Web. 30 June 2020.
Local Identifier:
Clip number: wsbn21150
Metadata URL:
https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn21150
Digital Object URL:
https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn21150
IIIF manifest:
https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn21150/presentation/manifest.json
Language:
eng
Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
Cite as: wsbn21150, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of activist Eva Davis and DeKalb County Sheriff Ray Bonner discussing the way that welfare fraud warrants were served in the public housing community of East Lake Meadows two days previously, Atlanta, Georgia, March 14, 1973, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1918, 2:21/03:54, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
Extent:
1 clip (about 1 mins., 33 secs.): color, sound ; 16 mm.
Original Collection:
Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
Rights:
In Copyright