Body camera footage released by Atlanta police shows Rayshard Brooks appearing good-humored and largely cooperative with two white officers for about 40 minutes during an encounter that ended with Brooks being fatally shot by police.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Saturday: “I do not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force.”
Meanwhile, a demonstration that began peacefully Saturday morning outside the restaurant where Brooks was shot grew more turbulent after dark. Demonstrators marched onto nearby Interstate 75 and blocked traffic while the Wendy’s at the shooting scene was set ablaze and gutted by flames. “The question is when the suspect turned to fire the Taser, what should the officer have done?” U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, said on CBS’ “Face The Nation.” Scott is the Senate’s only black Republican, and among GOP senators working on a package of policing changes.Scott said the police shooting of Brooks “is certainly a far less clear one than the ones that we saw with George Floyd and several other ones around the country.
“We also know that a man taking a Taser from a police officer in Pennsylvania resulted in his arrest,” Abrams told ABC’s “This Week,” “but because this person was black, it resulted in his death.” Stewart said Brooks, a father of four, had celebrated the eighth birthday of one of his daughters Friday before he was killed.
Rolfe is seen on body camera video administering the field sobriety test, followed by a breath test with Brooks’ consent. He moves to arrest Brooks after the breath test. While he doesn’t tell Brooks the result, the machine displays a 0.108 in video captured by Rolfe’s own body camera. That’s greater than the blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 grams that’s considered too intoxicated to drive under Georgia law.
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