NAACP president condemns officials’ ‘baseless attacks’

ATLANTA — The state president of the NAACP chastised comments attributed to an attorney with the campaign of President Trump that called for the “public execution of election administration officials” in Georgia.

Georgia NAACP President the Rev. James Woodall said the threat is an example of what communities across Georgia have had to fight against for way too long.

“These kinds of acts of violence and terror have gone unchecked and tolerated for years while black and brown communities screamed for help from state and national officials in Georgia,” Woodall said. “All [they] did was turn a blind eye because of their allegiance to the Republican Party and not to the people.”

The Georgia Secretary of State’s office held a press conference after comments surfaced from a senior Trump campaign lawyer calling for the public execution of election administration officials. Gabriel Sterling of the SOS’s office made a public plea, calling for an end to the baseless and violent attacks against local and state elections officials.

“President [Trump], you have not condemned these actions or this language,” Sterling said. “Senators [Loeffler and Perdue], you’ve not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop. We need you to step up.”

The continued endorsement of claims of election insecurity and violent attacks on poll workers and election officials by Loeffler and Perdue are racist in nature, Woodall said.

“This is a manifestation of racism and dehumanizing oppression that we fight against every single day,” he said in a news release. “We remain committed to purging all of it from the American way of life and repenting so that we can truly move forward together as one unified community.”

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