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Tamar Hallerman

Fulton DA seeks FBI's aid as Trump probe advances

ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is requesting backup from the FBI after former President Donald Trump singled out prosecutors investigating his actions and called for large-scale protests during a recent rally.

In a Sunday letter to J.C. Hacker, the head of the bureau's Atlanta field office, Willis urged the FBI to conduct a risk assessment of the Fulton County Courthouse and Government Center and provide other protective resources such as federal agents and intelligence. She said that security concerns were "escalated" by comments Trump made during an event in Texas over the weekend.

"We must work together to keep the public safe and ensure that we do not have a tragedy in Atlanta similar to what happened at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," she told Hacker in the letter, obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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