Atlanta police are investigating an act of vandalism that damaged property belonging to vendors at the Global Village at Global Black Pride.
Officials say the vandalism happened at the Starling Atlanta Midtown, the host hotel of Global Black Pride, late Tuesday night, August 27.
According to investigators, an intoxicated hotel guest caused the damage. At the banquet hall where the Global Black Pride Village was held, displays were thrown to the ground, tables were overturned, and the vandals defecated on a Pride flag. “Our table was flipped over,” Toni-Michelle Williams, the executive director of Solutions Not Punishment, Co.
and one of the exhibitors at the event, told WSB-TV. “All of our belongings, from brochures to hats to T-shirts, was blown all over the place.