Posted on 06/15/2020 9:02:30 AM PDT by karpov
On Friday night in Atlanta, we witnessed an all-too-familiar scene in the age of viral video. A bystander used a cellphone to capture video of two cops engaged in a violent struggle on the ground with a noncompliant suspect.
Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year old black man, apparently fell asleep at the wheel in a Wendy’s drive-thru lane. After a citizen’s complaint call, two Atlanta Police Department officers were dispatched and encountered Brooks, who was now parked in the lot. A field sobriety test raised reasonable suspicion of Brooks being under the influence of alcohol or narcotics.
The cops then performed their sworn duty to enforce the law and attempted to take Brooks into custody. A violent, sustained struggle ensues. Brooks then grabs an officer’s Taser and attempts to flee on foot. Both officers give chase. Wendy’s security camera footage released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation picks up the pursuit and clearly shows Brooks wheel around and appears to fire the Taser at the closest officer, less than 10 feet away.
In a split second, the targeted officer appears to duck, collides with a parked vehicle, switches his own Taser to the other hand, draws his sidearm, and fires at Brooks, leaving him mortally wounded on the pavement.
Many in the media erroneously reported this as yet another “unarmed” black man killed by police. That description is wholly inaccurate and dangerous.
Protesters, already energized by the inexcusable death of George Floyd, descended upon the Wendy’s where Brooks was killed and set it ablaze. Cars were set afire. Demonstrators shut down traffic on I-75. Atlanta Police Department Chief Erika Shields submitted her resignation, which Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms immediately accepted. The officer who fired the fatal shot was denied due process and immediately fired. His partner was reassigned to “administrative duty.”
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i cant believe this is even an issue....since when is it ok to grab a cops weapon and point and fire it at them?...this is just insane.
“... we witnessed an all-too-familiar scene ...” Yeah, hourly it happens. How friggin crazy would an LEO have to be to do this without justification after the past 2 weeks of looting, vandalizing and killing? Obviously some of these X-spurts have never dealt with some assclown drunk or high on some substance. What if the deceased had gotten the service weapon instead of the tazer? Unarmed does NOT mean undangerous!
No one should be shot in the BACK, EVER.
If it’s justified, then how is it tragic?
Police officers carry guns for the very reason that they will encounter extremely dangerous people that might need shooting. In this case, that is exactly what they encountered.
“No one should be shot in the BACK, EVER.”
That’s a rather over broad statement, isn’t it? This guy was running away and twisted back to the right and shot at the cop behind him. Otherwise, anyone then armed and dangerous who poses a threat to life can be shot anywhere.
Note to idiots:
1. Obey the Law!
2. Do not resist arrest
3. Do not fight with the Poeleece
Thank you local Communist....err....democRAT party for that. Those people own this.
You must watch a lot of Gunsmoke reruns
This shoot was 100% justified. If you don’t like it, go protest with the BLM losers.
As a result of your idiocy, you have just won the biggest dumbass on the thread award. Congrats!
“No one should be shot in the BACK, EVER.”
I’ll bet you any amount of money that I can shoot you without ever exposing the front of my body.
Except that the weapon in question was a non-lethal taser and he fired it wildly over his shoulder while running away. If the criteria for using deadly force is when the life or safety of the officer or of bystanders is at risk then this doesn't come close to meeting that.
It is literally iconic: stop or I’ll shoot. For hundreds of years it was known if you choose to fight with the police you could die. It was a lesson learned by Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Ma Barker and her boys. All were white, all died fighting the police.
It is disturbing that people are beginning to believe that you can battle the police and they are not allowed to do anything. Criminal lives don’t matter...
I just saw the lawyer for the family say the cops should have let him make a call and get picked up or let him walk home.
This is a lawyer who now thinks if you are black you can do a DUI and be let go.
This man failed a sobriety test. resisted arrest, punched the cop, stole a taser, ran away with it and then show the taser and the racist mayor and most again in the black population are not looking at the facts.
If this cop is charged then the case had better be moved out of that county. The family wants more protests too, but then stated we have come together.
Exactly how do you do that when these people and antifa are destroying property, attacking white people call for death to whites, and on top of that they have a load of insane demands.
What if he is running away after having murdered someone, waving a knife and vowing to kill someone else? Never?
Copied below is from another thread. What is going on?
None of the media are reporting the criminal history of a person named Rayshard Brooks also age 27 in Clayton County Georgia. Are there two Rayshard Brooks?
It appears Brooks was released on parole on Jan 29, 2020.
But Brooks had a probation revocation hearing scheduled for Feb 5, 2020.
“””He’s got quite the rap sheet.
Be sure to click on ‘all courts’ as the option”””
https://www.claytoncountyga.gov/government/courts/court-case-inquiry
so lets say I have a gun and run away but I keep shooting at you do you not have a right to self defense?
I think the term for that is "passed out".
“ No one should be shot in the BACK, EVER.”
Nonsense. It’s SOP when there is a potential ongoing threat.
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