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Brooks had [[Resisting arrest|resisted arrest]] and wrested<!--<<not /wrestled/--> a [[taser]] as he wrestled on the ground with two police officers. During a foot chase, Brooks fired the taser at one of the officers, who then shot at Brooks three times, striking him twice in the back.<ref name="Waldrop" />
Brooks had [[Resisting arrest|resisted arrest]] and wrested<!--<<not /wrestled/--> a [[taser]] as he wrestled on the ground with two police officers. During a foot chase, Brooks fired the taser at one of the officers, who then shot at Brooks three times, striking him twice in the back.<ref name="Waldrop" />


Video of the incident was widely broadcast and viewed on the internet. Atlanta Chief of Police [[Erika Shields]] resigned the next day, saying she wanted to help rebuild trust in the community.<ref name="wp2020-06-13">{{Cite news|last=Siegel |first=Rachel |date=June 13, 2020 |title=Atlanta police chief resigns after law enforcement fatally shoots black man|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/13/atlanta-shooting-police/|access-date=2020-06-13|work=[[The Washington Post]]|language=en}}</ref><ref name="abc2020-06-13">{{cite news |last1=Osborne |first1=Mark |last2=Hoyos |first2=Joshua |title=Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields resigns in wake of fatal shooting |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/atlanta-police-chief-erika-shields-resigns-wake-fatal/story?id=71239552 |accessdate=13 June 2020 |work=ABC News |date=13 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
Video of the incident was widely broadcast and viewed on the [[internet]]. Atlanta Chief of Police [[Erika Shields]] resigned the next day, saying she wanted to help rebuild trust in the community.<ref name="wp2020-06-13">{{Cite news|last=Siegel |first=Rachel |date=June 13, 2020 |title=Atlanta police chief resigns after law enforcement fatally shoots black man|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/13/atlanta-shooting-police/|access-date=2020-06-13|work=[[The Washington Post]]|language=en}}</ref><ref name="abc2020-06-13">{{cite news |last1=Osborne |first1=Mark |last2=Hoyos |first2=Joshua |title=Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields resigns in wake of fatal shooting |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/atlanta-police-chief-erika-shields-resigns-wake-fatal/story?id=71239552 |accessdate=13 June 2020 |work=ABC News |date=13 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
Protesters later [[arson|burned down]] the restaurant outside which the shooting had taken place.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whio.com/news/atlanta-police-chief/HIWSHHVTVT42FTC5CDE7JVKNHU/|title=Atlanta police chief resigns after fatal police shooting|first=RUSS BYNUM and BRYNN|last=ANDERSON|website=WHIO}}</ref>
Protesters later [[arson|burned down]] the restaurant outside which the shooting had taken place.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whio.com/news/atlanta-police-chief/HIWSHHVTVT42FTC5CDE7JVKNHU/|title=Atlanta police chief resigns after fatal police shooting|first=RUSS BYNUM and BRYNN|last=ANDERSON|website=WHIO}}</ref>


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Killing of Rayshard Brooks
DateJune 12, 2020 (2020-06-12)
Timec. 10:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -4)
LocationAtlanta, Georgia, United States
Coordinates33°43′19″N 84°23′31″W / 33.721917°N 84.392083°W / 33.721917; -84.392083
TypeShooting
DeathsRayshard Brooks

On the evening of June 12, 2020, Rayshard Brooks, an American 27-year-old black man, was shot and killed by one of several Atlanta Police Department officers investigating a report of a man asleep in a car.[1][2][3] Brooks had resisted arrest and wrested a taser as he wrestled on the ground with two police officers. During a foot chase, Brooks fired the taser at one of the officers, who then shot at Brooks three times, striking him twice in the back.[4]

Video of the incident was widely broadcast and viewed on the internet. Atlanta Chief of Police Erika Shields resigned the next day, saying she wanted to help rebuild trust in the community.[5][6] Protesters later burned down the restaurant outside which the shooting had taken place.[7]

Background

Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American resident of Atlanta who worked at a restaurant. He had been married for eight years and had three daughters and a stepson.[8][9]

Arrest attempt and death

External videos
video icon Witness video on YouTube (38 sec)
video icon Surveillance video depicting the shooting at 28:30 on YouTube (46 min 48 sec)
video icon APD Bodycam Footage of Shooting of Rayshard Brooks CAMERA 1 on YouTube (1 hr 27 min 58 sec)
video icon Brosnan Body Cam: Atlanta Police, University Ave Wendy's on YouTube (1 hr 28 min 37 sec)

Around 10:30 p.m. on June 12, 2020, Atlanta Police Department officer Devin Brosnan responded to a 911 complaint about a man sleeping in a car blocking a Wendy's fast-food drive-through lane in the southside of Atlanta, Georgia. The officer found Rayshard Brooks in the car, and awakened him. After instructing Brooks to park his car, Brosnan called for backup, and Garrett Rolfe, an officer on the Department’s High Intensity Traffic Team DUI task force, responded.[10]

Brooks gave inconsistent answers to Rolfe's questions and was disoriented as to where he was. Rolfe administered a field sobriety test;[10][11][12] a breathalyzer test measured Brooks' blood alcohol level as 0.108, which is above Georgia's legal limit for driving of 0.08.[10] Rolfe told Brooks that he was too impaired to operate a vehicle, and ordered him to put his hands behind his back preparatory to handcuffing him. Brooks resisted arrest, wrestled on the ground with the two officers, and punched one of them.[13] During the struggle an officer said, "You’re going to get tased! Stop fighting ... hands off the taser."[12][10]

According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), witnesses reported (and video shows) that Brooks wrested away one officer's taser and ran away as the officers chased him. Video footage then shows Brooks turn toward Rolfe while running, point the taser in the direction of Rolfe, and fire it.[13][14] The New York Times, in an analysis of several videos of the encounter, reported that "flash of the Taser suggests that Mr. Brooks did not fire it with any real accuracy."[13] Following Brooks firing the taser, at 11:23 PM local time, Rolfe drew his firearm and fired three times at Brooks, striking him twice in the back as he ran away.[15][11][16]

Neither officer on-scene is shown to provide any medical attention to Brooks until 11:25 PM when Rolfe is shown unrolling a bandage. At 11:30 PM an ambulance arrived and Brooks is then taken to the hospital, where he died following surgery.[13][1][2][3] One officer[who?] was treated for an injury.[12]

Investigation and sanctions

After carrying out an autopsy on Brooks, the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide.[4]

The Atlanta Police Department asked the GBI to investigate the shooting.[17] The GBI will turn over the results of its investigation to the Fulton County District Attorney's office.[17] The District Attorney's Office will decide whether criminal charges against either officer are warranted.[17] The Office is also conducting its own independent investigation without waiting for the GBI investigation results.[1][2][3][17] This was the 48th "officer-involved shooting" investigated by the GBI in 2020, fifteen of which were fatal.[18]

The two officers involved were removed from duty, pending investigation.[19] Rolfe had on January 9 trained on the use of deadly force at the DeKalb County police academy, and on April 24 took a nine-hour course on de-escalation options.[10] Rolfe (with the Department since 2013) was subsequently fired, while Brosnan (with the Department since 2018) was placed on administrative duty.[20][21] On June 13, Atlanta's police chief Erika Shields resigned to help rebuild trust in the community.[further explanation needed][5][6][11]

Protests

Demonstrators gathered at the site of the shooting on June 12 and 13.[22] On June 13, protesters burned down the restaurant outside which Brooks was shot, set fire to several nearby cars, and broke a television reporter's camera.[23][24][25]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Atlanta police shoot, kill suspect after struggle". Associated Press. June 13, 2020. Archived from the original on June 13, 2020. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Moshtaghian, Artemis; Croft, Jay (June 13, 2020). "Atlanta police officer shoots a black man dead at a fast-food drive-thru, authorities say". CNN. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Hauck, Grace (June 13, 2020). "Black Atlanta man Rayshard Brooks dies after police shooting at a Wendy's drive-thru, investigators say". USA Today. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Waldrop, Theresa; Levenson, Eric; Maxouris, Christina; Sutton, Joe (June 14, 2020). "Autopsy report says Rayshard Brooks was shot twice in the back, lists manner of death as homicide". CNN. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  5. ^ a b Siegel, Rachel (June 13, 2020). "Atlanta police chief resigns after law enforcement fatally shoots black man". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  6. ^ a b Osborne, Mark; Hoyos, Joshua (June 13, 2020). "Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields resigns in wake of fatal shooting". ABC News. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  7. ^ ANDERSON, RUSS BYNUM and BRYNN. "Atlanta police chief resigns after fatal police shooting". WHIO.
  8. ^ "Who is Rayshard Brooks, 27-year-old black man killed by Atlanta police?". www.cbsnews.com.
  9. ^ Danner, Chas (June 14, 2020). "Everything We Know About the Killing of Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta Police". Intelligencer.
  10. ^ a b c d e Boone, Christian (June 14, 2020). "Body cam footage of Rayshard Brooks' death shows calm, then chaos". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  11. ^ a b c Trubey, J. Scott; McCray, Vanessa; Arielle Kass (June 13, 2020). "Atlanta police shooting death of Rayshard Brooks roils city". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  12. ^ a b c Artemis Moshtaghian, Jay Croft, Paul P. Murphy, Kelly McCleary and Amir Vera. "Atlanta protesters block interstate, set fire to cars at fast-food restaurant where police killed black man". CNN. Retrieved June 14, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ a b c d Browne, Malachy; Kelso, Christina (June 14, 2020). "How Rayshard Brooks Was Fatally Shot by the Atlanta Police". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  14. ^ Maxouris, Christina; Levenson, Eric; Sutton, Joe (June 14, 2020). "Atlanta Police killing of Rayshard Brooks leads to officer's firing and chief's resignation". CNN. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  15. ^ Oliviero, Helena; Boone, Christian (June 14, 2020). "Who was Rayshard Brooks?". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  16. ^ Burke, Minyvonne (June 13, 2020). "Man's death after police shooting outside Wendy's in Atlanta sparks investigation, protests". NBC News. Archived from the original on June 13, 2020. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  17. ^ a b c d BYNUM, RUSS; ANDERSON, BRYNN. "Atlanta police chief resigns after officers shoot, kill black man following struggle in Wendy's drive-thru lane". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  18. ^ "Rayshard Brooks police shooting declared homicide". BBC News. June 15, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  19. ^ Siegel, Rachel (June 14, 2020). "Officer kills black man; police chief resigns". Times Union. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  20. ^ Calicchio, Dom (June 14, 2020). "Atlanta police Officer Garrett Rolfe fired, another reassigned after Rayshard Brooks death". Fox News.
  21. ^ "Night of protest, unrest after officer-involved shooting of Rayshard Brooks; one officer fired". June 14, 2020.
  22. ^ Maher, Kris (June 13, 2020). "Protests Planned in Atlanta After Police Shooting of Black Man". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  23. ^ WSBTV com News Staff. "Rayshard Brooks shooting: Protesters block traffic on Atlanta highway". WJAX. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  24. ^ Washington, Audrey. "LIVE UPDATES: Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed goes up in flames". WSBTV. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  25. ^ Artemis Moshtaghian, Jay Croft, Paul P. Murphy, Kelly McCleary and Amir Vera. "Atlanta officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks has been terminated". CNN. Retrieved June 14, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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