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Atlanta police chief steps down after fatal shooting near Wendy's drive-thru
By Kaelan Deese - 06/13/20 06:02 PM EDT

Atlanta Police Chief Ericka Shields voluntarily stepped down from the city's department Saturday afternoon following the deadly shooting of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks Friday night outside of a Wendy's drive-thru.

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Shields' withdrawal from the department during a press conference Saturday, while also calling for the "immediate termination" of the officer who shot Brooks.

"Chief Ericka Shields has been a solid member of APD for over two decades and has a deep and abiding love for the people of Atlanta. And because of her desire that Atlanta should be a meaningful model of what reform should look like across this country, Chief Shields has offered to immediately step aside as police chief so that the city may move forward with urgency in rebuilding the trust so desperately needed throughout our communities."

This is a developing story.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/502617-atlanta-police-chief-steps-down-after-fatal-shooting-in-wendys-drive

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Georgia NAACP calls for resignation of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields after police shooting




By: WSBTV.com News Staff
Updated: June 13, 2020 - 4:31 PM

ATLANATA — The Georgia NAACP has called for the immediate resignation of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields the morning after a black man was killed in a confrontation with Atlanta Police.

Rayshard Brooks was killed outside a Wendy’s Friday night after police investigated him for sleeping in a car. Brooks and police got into a scuffle in which Brooks apparently got one of the officer’s Tasers, the GBI said.

GBI Director Vic Reynolds said it appears the Brooks ran from the officers, but then turned back around and pointed the Taser at them before officers shot him.

more
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/georgia-naacp-calls-immediate-resignation-apd-chief-erika-shields/EYPYAZSL7VH4DLFSNOPU6XSWRM/

[mystery-ak]

Rayshard Brooks is the next BLM saint/hero....

[mystery-ak]

more with video

https://nypost.com/2020/06/13/unarmed-black-man-shot-dead-by-atlanta-cops-in-wendys-drive-thru/

[mystery-ak]

Atlanta officer fired after fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/502633-atlanta-officer-fired-after-fatal-shooting-of-rayshard-brooks

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Atlanta Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot by police burned down
By J. Edward Moreno - 06/13/20 11:28 PM EDT

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/502631-wendys-where-rayshard-brooks-was-killed-appears-on-fire

[XenaLee]

Well... all I can say is.... if you are or identify as "white"... and if you were not already "wacist"...

you probably will be before this anti-whitey-police idiocy is old news.

Personally... I'm getting really tired of seeing black thugs resisting arrest, running from police, attacking the cops trying to arrest them, and then getting cannonized for having been "stopped" by police.   This is the literal definition of madness.  And I admit...I'm getting pretty mad....

[mystery-ak]

Chaos in Atlanta as Rioters Block Highway, Set Fires in Protest of Officer-Involved Shooting Death of Black Man

Hannah Bleau 13 Jun 2020

Chaos erupted in Atlanta on Saturday evening following the death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot by police following an incident in a Wendy’s parking lot on Friday.

According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, authorities on Friday responded to a complaint of a male in a vehicle “parked in the drive thru asleep, causing other customers to drive around the vehicle.” Authorities had the man perform a field sobriety test, which he failed. Thereafter, officers tried to take the man into custody, but he “resisted and a struggle ensued,” causing an officer to deploy a taser, which the male subject “grabbed and was in possession of.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/13/chaos-in-atlanta-as-rioters-block-highway-set-fires-in-protest-of-officer-involved-shooting-death-of-black-man/

[skeeter]

Well... all I can say is.... if you are or identify as "white"... and if you were not already "wacist"...

you probably will be before this anti-whitey-police idiocy is old news.

Personally... I'm getting really tired of seeing black thugs resisting arrest, running from police, attacking the cops trying to arrest them, and then getting cannonized for having been "stopped" by police.   This is the literal definition of madness.  And I admit...I'm getting pretty mad....

We'd better get used to it - this show is gonna run all the way to November.

[XenaLee]

We'd better get used to it - this show is gonna run all the way to November.

That... plus one end result the idiot left is hoping for is.... that cops will be too afraid to even bother trying to stop a perp if he happens to have "dark or black skin".   Only whiteys will be arrested in their utopia, dontcha know.

[skeeter]

That... plus one end result the idiot left is hoping for is.... that cops will be too afraid to even bother trying to stop a perp if he happens to have "dark or black skin".   Only whiteys will be arrested in their utopia, dontcha know.

Yet once the progressives are in total charge they'll be shooting em down in the streets for loitering and sleeping like babies.

[mystery-ak]

Wendy’s Donated $500k to Black Causes, Pledged to Amplify ‘Black Voices’

Joel B. Pollak 14 Jun 2020

Wendy’s announced earlier this month that it would donate $500,000 to help the black community and promised “to amplify Black voices” on its Twitter account — before being targeted by rioters in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday night.

Protests erupted in outrage over the shooting death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who was killed in a confrontation with police Friday in the parking lot of a Wendy’s. Brooks allegedly resisted arrest and took an officer’s taser as he fled.

Earlier this month, Wendy’s had backed the Black Lives Matter movement that mobilized after the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wendy’s joined many other corporations in making large donations to organizations and voicing its support for the movement on social media.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/14/wendys-donated-500k-to-black-causes-pledged-to-amplify-black-voices/

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Atlanta police release bodycam video leading up to death of Rayshard Brooks


This screengrab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, late Friday, June 12, 2020, in Atlanta.(Atlanta Police Department via AP)


This screen grab taken from dashboard camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks, center, struggling with Officers Garrett Rolfe, left, and Devin Brosnan in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, early Saturday, June 13, 2020, in Atlanta. (Atlanta Police Department via AP)

video at link
https://www.foxnews.com/us/atlanta-police-release-bodycam-video-leading-up-to-death-of-rayshard-brooks

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UPDATE — FULL BODYCAM VIDEO Reveals Atlanta Police Being Patient, Respectful with Rayshard Brooks (VIDEO)


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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/update-full-bodycam-video-reveals-atlanta-police-patient-respectful-rayshard-brooks-video/

[truth_seeker]

The police need better training, better options, etc.

It is not merely black lives. It is lives coming into contact, with police.

More whites and Hispanics are killed, in similar situations.

[sneakypete]

Georgia NAACP calls for resignation of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields after police shooting

@mystery-ak

How the hell did a white woman get the top slot in the Atlanta PD?????

I could have sworn I saw and heard a black Atlanta Chief on one of the talking head shows today.

Was I wrong?

[sneakypete]

Atlanta officer fired after fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/502633-atlanta-officer-fired-after-fatal-shooting-of-rayshard-brooks

@mystery-ak

Well,he should have been fired,not to mention arrested for murder. There is no way in hell was that a justified shoot.

[sneakypete]

Atlanta police release bodycam video leading up to death of Rayshard Brooks
 

@mystery-ak

Good thing they didn't put one of those "deadly choke holds" on him that would have caused him to pretty much immediately go unconscious,huh?

[PeteS in CA]

Brooks had grabbed an officer's Taser and just before being shot had pointed it at the officer who shot him. That was a justified shooting.

[aligncare]

@mystery-ak

Well,he should have been fired,not to mention arrested for murder. There is no way in hell was that a justified shoot.

I am loath to second guess cops until all the after action investigations are completed.

We owe police officers that much.

The angry mobs won’t wait.

[sneakypete]

The police need better training, better options, etc.

It is not merely black lives. It is lives coming into contact, with police.

More whites and Hispanics are killed, in similar situations.

@truth_seeker

The guy was bigger and stronger than either cop,full of adrenaline,and on drugs.

Pretty hard to subdue someone like that while following the current rules.

The safest thing to have done was hit him with the stun gun,but that can't be done anymore unless he is resisting arrest,and the other cop couldn't do it at the beginning because he wasn't resisting. By the time he was resisting,he couldn't do it without also zapping the cop that was wrestling with him.

Still,there was no justification for shooting him. They had his car,his ID,and they knew where he lived. The worse that would have happened was it would have taken them a few days to arrest him.
Big flipping deal.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jeanine Pirro
@JudgeJeanine

PART ONE: @BernardKerik and @dbongino are here to discuss the latest on the Atlanta shooting and more protests in America over the death of George Floyd.

Video: 

https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine/status/1271996879472152576

10:44 PM · Jun 13, 2020·Twitter Media Studio



Jeanine Pirro
@JudgeJeanine

PART TWO: @BernardKerik and @dbongino are here to discuss the latest on the Atlanta shooting and more protests in America over the death of George Floyd.

Video: 

https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine/status/1271996911390806017

10:44 PM · Jun 13, 2020·Twitter Media Studio

[sneakypete]

Brooks had grabbed an officer's Taser and just before being shot had pointed it at the officer who shot him. That was a justified shooting.

@PeteS in CA

HOW was it justified? The guy was running away,and wasn't even pointing a lethal weapon at him.

It is only a justified shooting when you shoot because either your life,or the life of others are at immediate risk if you don't.

Nobody's life was at immediate risk,so it wasn't justified.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow

1. I am looking at the same videos as everyone else. First, this looks nothing like the George Floyd case, which was an obvious killing. Mr. Floyd was on the ground, face down, handcuffed, pleading for his life. The Rayshard Brooks situation is nothing like that.

2. Although more information will become available, when I first heard Mr. Brooks's lawyers at about 9 PM eastern last night, I concluded a man was shot in the back while fleeing. But the publicly available videos tell a different and more complete story.

3. It looks from the videos like Mr. Brooks resisted being handcuffed, assaulted the police officers (punched one of them), and then turned and aimed the taser at the pursuing officer as Mr. Brooks was fleeing, which he’d forcibly taken from one of the officers.

4. I don't know if the officers followed protocol . But I do know this is why we have a justice system -- with a real court, a real discovery process, and lawyers, to gather the facts and pursue the truth.

5. And we should wait for all the facts to come out here, not the kind of narrative I heard last night from the lawyers, and not just selected video of Mr. Brooks fleeing the scene without any context -- which we are seeing over and over again on cable TV today .

6. Meanwhile, a lawless crowd burned down the Wendy's restaurant, which had nothing to do with the confrontation. The police chief resigned. And the officer who discharged his weapon was fired.

As an aside, all of us know that when an officer stops you, you cooperate.

7. You certainly don't resist arrest. And you certainly don't assault the officer and seize one of his weapons. The officer doesn't know you. He doesn't know if you're dangerous to him or others.


10:05 AM · Jun 14, 2020·Twitter for Android

https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1272168172641308672

[sneakypete]

I am loath to second guess cops until all the after action investigations are completed.

We owe police officers that much.

The angry mobs won’t wait.

@aligncare

You can clearly see that he is running away in the video,and the only gun he is pointing at the officer is the officer's own yellow stun gun,which is NOT lethal.

It was clearly not a justified shooting.