NBA's Enes Kanter says he is 'shocked and disgusted' after his brother was robbed in Atlanta
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Enes Kanter, a center for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, called for "normal gun control measures" after he said his brother was robbed in Atlanta over the weekend.
"I'm shocked and disgusted," Kanter wrote in a tweet on Sunday. "My little brother (Ahmet) walking around Atlanta, gets a gun pulled on him, and robbed. When will we have some normal gun control measures? This is not okay & not normal. We need to keep demanding peace & change, and stop putting guns in peoples hands." According to Atlanta police, officers were dispatched to a robbery call in downtown Atlanta just after 4 a.m. on Sunday.Elected officials, Jewish advocacy groups and civil rights leaders are vowing to “push back” against the message of a White nationalist group that staged a march last week near downtown Columbus, Ohio, calling the demonstration an act of hate unwelcome in their community – and the United States more broadly.
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