Members of the public lined up in the rain Monday as they waited for a chance to say a brief goodbye to Rayshard Brooks, a Black man who was fatally shot by a white Atlanta police officer in a Wendy’s parking lot.
Members of the public lined up in the rain Monday as they waited for a chance to say a brief goodbye to Rayshard Brooks, a black man who wasPeople filtered through quietly, masked and socially distant, to pay homage to Brooks as he lay in his casket at the. Rain fell on those who waited outside at about 3 p.m., just as the four-hour public viewing began. Brooks’ widow, Tomika Miller, arrived in all white at the famed Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. once served as pastor.
Some of the mourners who walked in to see Brooks before he was put to rest wore shirts and masks in support of Black Lives Matter as violinist Richmond Punch played songs such as “Rise Up” by Andra Day. A closed funeral will be held for Brooks on Tuesday at the church, where King's youngest daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, is expected to speak.Brooks died on June 12 when Atlanta Police Officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan answered a call about a man sleeping in his car at a Wendy’s drive-thru. Authorities said that Brooks, who failed a field sobriety test at the Wendy’s, was also wanted in a suspected DUI incident.
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