Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, Atlanta. If you’re looking for something to do with your sweetheart, you can check out the Love Stories of Oakland Cemetery, Sips Under the Sea at the Georgia Aquarium or the mass elopement officiated by Mayor Dickens in Piedmont Park. If you’d rather stay home, be sure to grab some chocolate and queue up a classic rom-com. 

On to other news around the city and metro area:

District 6 DeKalb County Commissioner Ted Terry.

DeKalb commissioner: Local police should not work with others that don’t use body cams

In the wake of the police killing of a protester at the site of Atlanta’s public safety training center, a DeKalb County Board of Commissioners member is calling for local police to stop working with agencies that don’t use body cameras.

District 6 Commissioner Ted Terry, a longtime critic of the training center, said on Feb. 8 on Twitter that “local leaders should refuse to work with any law enforcement agency” — specifically, the Georgia State Patrol (GSP) — “if those officers aren’t required to wear body cameras.” He said he would introduce legislation to ban the practice in the County if necessary.

During a Jan. 18 raid of the DeKalb County site by a multi-agency police task force, police killed Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, allegedly after the protester shot and wounded a GSP trooper. State troopers did not wear body cameras during the raid and routinely do so only in very limited situations, like Georgia State Capitol patrols. The DeKalb County Police Department is part of the task force.

On Feb. 8, the Atlanta Police Department (APD) released body camera footage taken from some of its officers during Teran’s killing. The footage does not show the event itself but has stirred controversy for a moment when an APD officer appears to suggest, based on radio talk, that the state trooper was shot by fellow officers. 

— John Ruch

Doug Hooker (second from left) during an…