Rappers who witnessed Atlanta police killing of Rayshard Brooks speak out.
Melvin Evans was waiting in line at a nearby Wendy’s drive-through when he witnessed the altercation between Brooks and two Atlanta police officers.
Witnesses Mike Perkins and Melvin Evans who were sitting in a car when Rayshard Brooks was shot to death in a Wendy's parking lot in Atlanta, wait to speak at a press conference, June 18, 2020, as their lawyer Shean Williams introduces them.Perkins and Evans spoke a day after the Fulton County District Attorney's Office obtained warrants for the arrests of Rolfe and Atlanta Police Officer Devin Bronsan.
Rayshard Brooks, a father of three daughters and a stepson, was shot and killed by police in Atlanta, June 12, 2020. Evans, who goes by the stage name"2Turnt Gizzle," said that after Brooks was shot, he saw the two officers standing over the body.The deadly encounter unfolded Friday night after a Wendy's employee called 911 to report Brooks was in the drive-thru lane asleep at the wheel and couldn't be awakened.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said that prior to the shooting, Rolfe and Brosnan spoke to Brooks for 41 minutes and 17 seconds and that Brooks was cordial in answering their questions and complying with their orders to be patted down, submit to a series of field sobriety tests and a Breathalyzer exam that showed he was"slightly impaired."
Howard said that video showed Brooks turning and firing the stun gun over Rolfe's head emptying the device before Rolfe, who had also expended the cartridges in his stun gun, drew his service weapons and fired three shots in the crowded parking lot, hitting Brooks in the back. Howard said Rolfe was captured on video kicking Brooks after shooting him and Brosnan standing on dying man's shoulders.
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