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Coronavirus: Wild video shows huge crowds gathered to do donuts, set off fireworks on empty Atlanta streets

ATLANTA — A video posted on social media shows huge groups of people gathering and behaving dangerously late on Saturday night in at least two separate locations in Atlanta.

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The crowds gathered days after Gov. Brian Kemp’s shelter-in-place order expired -- though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends social distancing.

A wild video taken just before midnight outside the Mall West End shows people setting off fireworks and doing donuts in the middle of the road on Saturday night.

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No one was arrested outside the Mall West End, but Atlanta police also responded to a scene on Spring Street near The Varsity where reckless drivers were reported. Police issued traffic citations to several drivers and arrested one for driving with a suspended license.

Atlanta police told WSB-TV that they responded to two separate incidents on Saturday night but didn’t say if they were connected.

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The Mall West End reopens on Monday.

The incidents follow a similar incident in early March where groups of people in cars did donuts on an empty Atlanta highway late at night.

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Several people were arrested after a video showed cars doing donuts under a bridge on the I-285 near Atlanta’s airport.

“It was like something out of a movie,” a witness said at the time. “It was organized. They definitely had a system going.”