“Basically, they were happy I had a few hundred dollars in my pocket,” Muhammad said. “They were young, probably about 18, and they had bandannas covering their faces.”

The men then jumped into the gray 2019 Dodge Durango that Muhammad rented to prepare for the festival and took off.

The entire encounter was witnessed by an ambulance driver who was sitting in the parking lot at the time, according to the report. He told police he saw the men get out of a “blacked out” sedan with their rifles before robbing the couple.

In July, Muhammad was appointed to the mayor's 25-member jail task force that will make suggestions for repurposing the Atlanta City Detention Center and ending the facility's role of housing inmates.

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“We’ve been talking about these kinds of things, but I’ve never experienced it,” Muhammad said, adding that looking down the barrels of two rifles gave him a new perspective to take back to his committee.

He said historically, he’s been in favor of “coddling” Atlanta’s inmates and helping them in any way he can.

“I still want to help them,” he said Wednesday, “but I’m probably not as mushy about it ... Things could have ended differently.”

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Muhammad said he and his wife were shaken up by the incident, but are doing OK.

Anyone with information about the armed robbery and carjacking is asked to contact Atlanta police.

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