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Rayshard Brooks killing: Former Atlanta Officer Garrett Rolfe charged with murder, could face death penalty
Fox News ^ | June 17, 2020 | Michael Ruiz

Posted on 06/17/2020 1:06:11 PM PDT by buckalfa

Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta police officer fired after the killing of Rayshard Brooks last week, now faces charges including felony murder, which could potentially lead to the death penalty, a Georgia district attorney announced Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; blm; cop; rayshardbrooks; shooting
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To: buckalfa

Absurd!!! The perp turned and fired at them. Taser or not, why take the chance?


181 posted on 06/17/2020 2:53:18 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: The Toll

Absolutely not. I would never be a police officer, don’t have the temperament, training, or the desire.

Having said that, does this give that policeman the right to shoot an unarmed man running away from him? I assume he had the temperament, training, and desire.

I get it’s a tough job. If he’s not capable of doing the job correctly, he should take up another line of work.


182 posted on 06/17/2020 2:53:37 PM PDT by Team Cuda
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To: buckalfa

The entire police force for municipalities inside the United States needs to take a week off.

The choices now are, let the criminal kill you, or the
local DA will do it for them.


183 posted on 06/17/2020 2:53:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: sergeantdave

Running toward someone else with a knife or lethal weapon and his back is facing you?? How’s that?


184 posted on 06/17/2020 2:54:43 PM PDT by jntrees
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To: DoughtyOne

How can anyone be a cop in a socialist city or state today?


185 posted on 06/17/2020 2:55:29 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: manc

And you will be charged with murder. Good luck with that.


186 posted on 06/17/2020 2:55:56 PM PDT by jntrees
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To: jntrees

charged with murder maybe if I am in a socialist hell hole like Atlanta


187 posted on 06/17/2020 2:56:36 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: buckalfa

No. The Death Penalty is what somebody like Chauvin should face. Not this guy.


188 posted on 06/17/2020 2:57:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: buckalfa

Repudiate the Anti-Police Narrative
Comments submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives in response to the Oversight Hearing on Policing Practices
Heather Mac Donald

June 10, 2020

Shifting police funding to social services will not solve crime. For decades, New York City was the welfare capital of the United States, spending one-seventh of all government welfare dollars. Crime continued to rise. Crime started falling in the city only when the New York Police Department adopted the data-driven policing that has now become the norm across the country.

But the most urgent task before this committee is to repudiate the narrative that law enforcement is infected by racism. The atmosphere in which officers are working is becoming more vicious and volatile. The attempts on officers’ lives, some successful, that we have seen in the last two weeks will increase. And under the pervasive charge that they are racist, officers will back off of proactive policing in minority neighborhoods. The victims will be overwhelmingly black.

In 2015 and 2016, when officers also retreated to purely reactionary policing, an additional 2,000 black males died, the largest two-year increase in homicide in half a century. Harvard economist Roland Fryer, University of Utah law professor Paul Cassell, and University of Utah economist Richard Fowles have recently documented what I have called the Ferguson Effect: the sharp rise in crime during episodes of pervasive anti-cop rhetoric and depolicing.

https://www.city-journal.org/repudiate-the-anti-police-narrative


189 posted on 06/17/2020 2:57:58 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Borges

They will have trouble getting this conviction. An acquittal will mean more rioting.

See RODNEY KING.

NOT GUILTY BY STATE JURY.

AND THEN PROSECUTED BY THE FEDS.

CONVICTION OBTAINED.


190 posted on 06/17/2020 2:59:16 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: buckalfa
If the officer can get a fair trial, he'll be acquitted and more riots will occur.

Meanwhile, police in Atlanta will be afraid to do proactive police work and murder and crime rates will explode.

191 posted on 06/17/2020 2:59:21 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Borges

I don’t think they care if he gets convicted, they only need to rile up black voters until the first Tuesday in November, then for all the Democrats care, he can be as free as a bird.

An...ti...fa...pa-a-ation... it’s makin’ you wait...


192 posted on 06/17/2020 2:59:31 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: manc

First off, the Taser is a one shot weapon. After he shot his load, he’s carrying a small plastic club. He DOES NOT have a lethal weapon anymore. Since the policeman has obviously (at least, I would hope) been trained in Taser use, he knows this.

So, why did he find it necessary to shoot a guy, unarmed, running away from him? My understanding of the ROE for police is that they are only allowed to use lethal force if they are in fear of their life, or to protect the lives of others. He obviously wasn’t in fear for his life. And, don’t give me “by resisting arrest he showed he was a danger to others line”. By that logic every body who ever disagreed with a cop could be shot.

So, did he shoot him just because he was pissed off?


193 posted on 06/17/2020 3:01:21 PM PDT by Team Cuda
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To: buckalfa

Think the simple truth. It will be illegal to arrest one of the sacred protected class even if they have the blood of a thousand on them.

From a civilian side of things, if you don’t allow the sacred protected to rape, rob, assault or murder you will be an automatic death sentence to be carried out less than 1 hour from arraignment.


194 posted on 06/17/2020 3:02:02 PM PDT by spacewarp (FreeRepublic, Rush's show prep since foundation.)
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To: manc

Some people still want to help others, and so they chose to
go into law enforcement. I couldn’t do it.


195 posted on 06/17/2020 3:02:35 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: sheehan

They don’t need a conviction they just need the verdict to be pending before election day so they can milk it for all it’s worth.


196 posted on 06/17/2020 3:04:00 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I dunno, kneeling seems to be a popular white pastime lately.


197 posted on 06/17/2020 3:07:20 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: jntrees

Try again. How do you run toward someone in an attack with your back toward your attacker? Of course it can be done, but it sounds so French.

Let’s not lose track of your original statement, though:

“Shooting someone in the back is unjustified, unless they were charging at someone with the intent to maim/kill.”

Try not to change the subject.


198 posted on 06/17/2020 3:08:33 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: piasa

I don’t think they care if he gets convicted, they only need to rile up black voters until the first Tuesday in November, then for all the Democrats care, he can be as free as a bird.

An...ti...fa...pa-a-ation... it’s makin’ you wait...

Exactly right. The optics of this case take precedence over the normal agreement that the black community has with law enforcement. Enforcement in the hood is differnet than in other parts of town. That is just the reality. The police and the community both understand this. Its that tacit agreement that informs every contact.


199 posted on 06/17/2020 3:13:32 PM PDT by chriscraft
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To: chriscraft

They wanted people to lose jobs and businesses so they could hurt the economy thus helping them in the election, and now they are ruining peoples lives again with this. They only care for their own power and stop us from seeing their corruption.


200 posted on 06/17/2020 3:15:51 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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