Atlanta Police Chief Resigns After Another Killing
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:55 am
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atlanta- ... c1283183e7
Friday night a 27 year old black male Rayshard Brooks was sitting in a Wendy's parking lot because he was too drunk to drive. He was asleep when cops arrived on the scene and gave him a sobriety test which he failed. A physical struggle ensued, he resisted arrest, the two white cops tased him but he managed to take the taser away and run off. After running about 50 ft away one of the two cops shoots him and he fell dead right in front of several other cars waiting in drive through. The surveillance footage from Wendy's was just released:
https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/13/atlanta- ... an-wendys/
Notice that after he was gunned down, one of the cops appears to be standing over him and kicking him. A car is in the way but the upper body motion would indicate that's what he's doing.
What better way for the police force to respond to social unrest and tension with local communities after several unjustified killings of unarmed black men the past few months.
FOX News is spinning this as the Chief resigning because she is tired of watching her policemen being expected to do their jobs while being put in straitjackets, but I haven't seen any quotations from her to suggest that her resignation had anything to do with her being fed up with the public.
Friday night a 27 year old black male Rayshard Brooks was sitting in a Wendy's parking lot because he was too drunk to drive. He was asleep when cops arrived on the scene and gave him a sobriety test which he failed. A physical struggle ensued, he resisted arrest, the two white cops tased him but he managed to take the taser away and run off. After running about 50 ft away one of the two cops shoots him and he fell dead right in front of several other cars waiting in drive through. The surveillance footage from Wendy's was just released:
https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/13/atlanta- ... an-wendys/
Notice that after he was gunned down, one of the cops appears to be standing over him and kicking him. A car is in the way but the upper body motion would indicate that's what he's doing.
What better way for the police force to respond to social unrest and tension with local communities after several unjustified killings of unarmed black men the past few months.
FOX News is spinning this as the Chief resigning because she is tired of watching her policemen being expected to do their jobs while being put in straitjackets, but I haven't seen any quotations from her to suggest that her resignation had anything to do with her being fed up with the public.