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5 things to know: Ga. ACLU head resigns over transgender fight

Maya Dillard Smith, executive director of Georgia’s ACLU chapter, right, and attorney Alan Begner, left, are leading the KKK’s legal fight for the right to pick up trash on a north Georgia highway. AP photo
Maya Dillard Smith, executive director of Georgia’s ACLU chapter, right, and attorney Alan Begner, left, are leading the KKK’s legal fight for the right to pick up trash on a north Georgia highway. AP photo
By Staff reports
June 2, 2016

Five things to know Thursday, June 2:

1. The head of Georgia's ACLU chapter stepped down this week in protest of the civil rights group's challenge of a controversial North Carolina law that critics see as discriminatory to transgender people. [Her statement on the fight]

2. The husband of a Georgia assistant attorney general was found shot to death in a car in northeast Atlanta early Wednesday [He was on duty as a Lyft driver]

3. Last night, the Braves won at home on Freddie Freeman's walk-off homer in the 11th.  [Michael Cunningham has more on the game]

4. A metro Atlanta teenager now faces charges tied to a crash that witnesses said occurred after she tried to use Snapchat to log speeds over 100 miles per hour.  [Both the driver and Snapchat are being sued]

5. Hope you have a fan. It will hit the 90's today. [Will it rain?]

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