ATLANTA—A Fulton County Board of Commissioners meeting in the summer of 2021 was proceeding like most mundane local government gatherings. Then Fani Willis came to the podium.
The county’s then-newly elected district attorney’s presentation was more like a closing argument of a trial than the traditional recitation of figures from a department head, as she demanded more funding for her office to handle a crime wave and case backlog.
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