Two HUGE resuts in Georgia: Dems have flipped the sheriff's offices in Cobb & Gwinnett counties (pop: 1.6 million)

This is big for many reasons.

1/ The GOP sheriffs here have intense ties with ICE, which the Dems had promised to curtail or end. See: https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/georgia-sheriff-elections-limit-ices-reach/

2/ Both of the incoming sheriffs are Black, which breaks the pattern of overwhelmingly white sheriffs (as @MauriceChammah just noted).

It's also a direct parallel to NC in 2018, when roughly 5 new Black Democrats won sheriff's offices & ended ties with ICE.

3/ Jail conditions & jail deaths were a huge issue here, in both races. https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/guide-prosecutor-sheriff-elections-2020/

A measure of accountability against officials who escape it so consistently.

These are the 2nd & 3rd sheriff races in Georgia this year alone to bring tremendous change over the sheriff's department cooperation with ICE.

Athens in June: https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/georgia-sheriff-who-cooperated-with-ice-loses-re-election-bid/

Huge huge huge testament to local immigrants' rights activism here.