The anticipation of former President Donald Trump’s impending surrender has brought an influx of reporters to the typically quiet northwest Atlanta neighborhood directly behind the Fulton County Jail.
On Wednesday morning, some neighbors smiled and waved at the journalists and spectators lined up along Rice Street as they ventured out for their morning dog walks.
“We usually train our dogs in there,” one woman said, pointing to the fenced-in parking lot absolutely crammed full of news vans and reporters’ cars.
Most neighbors have been relatively cordial with the journalists in recent days, with some filming the growing media gaggle as they leave for work or return from running errands. Others make small talk or flash smiles as they drive by. Only one seemed to lose his cool Wednesday afternoon, screaming at members of the media from his SUV.
”You morons! What are you doing,” the man asked as he drove past the reporters and flag-waving Trump supporters reporters lined up outside the jail. “Don’t you realize this a neighborhood? People live here!”
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