Treating the Blue Flu

Atlanta and its police have never really reckoned with the effect of officers' sickout protest last summer.

While protesters took to the streets against police brutality last year, I was the first news reporter to pick up on a mass protest by police.

It started the evening of June 17, after the district attorney charged officer Garrett Rolfe with murder in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. People started pinging me around 7 p.m. about how calls went unans…