A prosecutor on Monday said he would not prosecute Atlanta police officers involved in a May 2020 confrontation with two college students who were stunned with Tasers and pulled from a car while they were stuck in traffic caused by protests over George Floyd’s death.

Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim, two students at historically Black colleges in Atlanta, were confronted by police in downtown Atlanta on May 30, 2020. Within days, then-Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced arrest warrants had been obtained for six officers.

Samir Patel, an associate with White & Choate, has been nominated by Gov. Brian Kemp to be district attorney in the Cherokee Judicial Circuit. Courtesy photo Cherokee Judicial Circuit District Attorney Samir Patel. Courtesy photo

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