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Atlanta police shooting death of Rayshard Brooks roils city
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | June 13, 2020 | J. Scott Trubey, Vanessa McCray, and Arielle Kass

Posted on 06/13/2020 7:11:02 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17

Atlanta police shot and killed a black man late Friday night following a struggle outside a Wendy’s restaurant on the city’s southside, in an incident that inflamed tensions over police use of force and racial injustice that have roiled Atlanta and cities across the nation since the Memorial Day death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

Video of the shooting of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who had allegedly fallen asleep in his car and blocked the restaurant’s drive-through, went viral across social media. Protesters marching for a third weekend in Atlanta for justice for Floyd and other black men and women killed by police quickly demanded a full investigation Saturday of the Brooks shooting, and the Georgia NAACP called for the termination of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields.

(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: anothergoldcoffin; atlanta; blm; callingmrcrump; devinbrosan; erikashields; fultoncounty; garrettrolfe; georgia; getthewagonrhett; keishalancebottoms; lootingatlanta; naacp; paulhoward; police; rayshardbrooks; shooting; taser; tomorrowisanotherday; wendys
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To: Sam Gamgee

the biggest problem is trying to reconcile leaving your grown children to live across the ocean....that means leaving your grand children as well...and your sisters and brothers and cousins, etc..


201 posted on 06/13/2020 8:34:26 PM PDT by cherry
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To: montag813

Media: “Let us make this a big thing.
No one report the facts, just the narrative!”


202 posted on 06/13/2020 8:35:18 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: montag813

How does a cop get teeth stolen away from them?

Think about it dumbass.


203 posted on 06/13/2020 8:37:16 PM PDT by eyedigress (Joe, put your mask on!)
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To: yldstrk
well sometimes using discretion is the better part of valor..

something changed in police attitude about 30 yrs ago where it was shoot to kill not shoot to wound .

204 posted on 06/13/2020 8:37:48 PM PDT by cherry
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To: eyedigress

No the cops with their over the top behavior are wrecking the rule of law. PS I am a lawyer. A conservative one.


205 posted on 06/13/2020 8:38:04 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: montag813

How does a cop get a Taser taken away from them? Pathetic.


actually TWO cops tried to control him..he fought them both off

But I wonder what kind of holds or restraints have gotten banned over the years(ie choke holds) and what an officer is and isn’t allowed to use these days

it’s not like they could pin his neck down with a knee......


206 posted on 06/13/2020 8:38:38 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: montag813

No real danger? Until the “passed out” guy decided to wake up and pull out in the street, thus killing a family of five? So people shouldn’t have called the police? Maybe one of the kids working at Wendy’s should have knocked on his window and asked him to move his car? This was a volatile, combative person and thankfully no one else had to die because if his actions and his alone.


207 posted on 06/13/2020 8:39:27 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: nutmeg

I’m up in the Redoubt. No place better.


208 posted on 06/13/2020 8:39:32 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Sam Gamgee; yldstrk

I’ve seen this guy do his senseless jawing before. Likes to start stuff.

He’s a troll. Don’t feed the trolls.


209 posted on 06/13/2020 8:39:52 PM PDT by citizen (Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars. A,ll the other genders you make up are from Uranus.)
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To: cherry

well sometimes using discretion is the better part of valor..

something changed in police attitude about 30 yrs ago where it was shoot to kill not shoot to wound .
**********

It’s gone too far. Thank you for your comment.


210 posted on 06/13/2020 8:40:00 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: eyedigress

Exactly. The only ones who think it’s a race issue are those want to think I is so their can add it to their list of unsubstantiated grievances.


211 posted on 06/13/2020 8:40:02 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: DAC21
They would not have arrived if someone hadn’t called saying there was a problem. Like a black out drunk / druggies car blocking Wendy’s from being able to provide for there customers. Did he deserve to die most likely not. But had no one done anything like make the original call and this clown comes too drives off and kills a family in his car would you feel better about the situation.

So block off his car and TALK to him. Jeez. When I was young there was a drunk dude yelling at people in a McDonalds, and then fell asleep in a booth. The responding officer laughed about it and said to "let him sleep it off". About 20 min later the guy roused and the cop sat down across from him for like 30 min and ended up issuing a citation and giving the guy a ride home.

Don't be so quick to support trigger-happy cops who these days immediately feel the right to use deadly force -- and routinely murder people's dogs just for barking (another insane NEW development that NEVER happened years ago)

212 posted on 06/13/2020 8:40:19 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Repeal 16-17
I remember posting the "The law be racisis" meme a couple of years ago, meaning that the vast majority of the contemporary AA voting bloc literally believe that the various State's criminal laws are primarily meant to incarcerate them alone.

Our elected officials have allowed this belief to metastasize to the point where it can no longer be countered with reason or irrefutable evidence to the contrary ..

213 posted on 06/13/2020 8:40:53 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING)
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To: Repeal 16-17

Let the left burn themselves down. I don’t care anymore.


214 posted on 06/13/2020 8:41:39 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Toespi

See 212


215 posted on 06/13/2020 8:42:04 PM PDT by montag813
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To: yldstrk

Yes especially David Dorn’s family. They are sick of the killing too.


216 posted on 06/13/2020 8:42:33 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: gas_dr

no. A drama queen who lives to fan the flames of hysteria


217 posted on 06/13/2020 8:42:40 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: yldstrk

So I can attack cops, take their weapons and their right to defend themselves is gone because they are cops.

All because I was going to get carted off for DUI.

That would be a tough argument in my neck of the woods.


218 posted on 06/13/2020 8:43:22 PM PDT by eyedigress (Joe, put your mask on!)
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To: yldstrk

When the barbarians come to your home don’t be a hypocrite and call the cops then.
I notice the pale morality of those who hate cop violence but are silent about ghetto violence.
You clowns are a joke!


219 posted on 06/13/2020 8:43:29 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: citizen

I am not a troll or a guy. I am a female conservative attorney. Very opinionated. Not one to walk in lockstep because others disagree with me.


220 posted on 06/13/2020 8:43:35 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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