The city of Atlanta has agreed to pay $1 million to the family of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer in 2020.
had “committed no crimes” and that the use of deadly force was “reasonable.”
Brooks was fatally shot by an officer amid national unrest over police brutality after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd.Police had responded to a report that a man had fallen asleep in his vehicle in the drive-thru of a Wendy's fast food restaurant in the 2020 incident. Two officers located Brooks and bodycam footage showed they had a calm conversation with him for almost 40 minutes.
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