BREAKING: Former Atlanta police officer charged with felony murder in fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot last week.
was fatally shot on Friday. His death sparked an arson fire, new protests, an investigation and the resignation of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields.
People gather for a civil rights National Association for the Advancement of Colored People protest march, June 15, 2020 in Atlanta. The fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks, a black man, by a white police officer in Atlanta has poured more fuel on the raging U.S. debate over racism, prompting another round of street protests and the resignation of the southern city's police chief.
Frame grab from police camera footage of the arrest of Rayshard Brookes by Atlanta Police, June 13, 2020.When officers tried to place him in handcuffs, Brooks began to struggle and wrestled with both officers on the ground, grabbing an officer's stun gun. Rayshard Brooks, a father of three daughters and a stepson, was shot and killed by police in Atlanta, June 12, 2020.Howard said his office is asking Rolfe and Brosnan to surrender by 6 p.m. Thursday.
"They don't need to be responding with guns and Tasers and things like that to a guy, sleeping in a parking lot situation," an attorney for Brooks' family, L. Chris Stewart, told ABC News on Sunday."There needs to be a certain branch of police departments that handle stuff like that." In a statement on Wednesday, attorneys for the officers said"Mr. Brooks chose to violently attack two uniformed police officers."
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