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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I skimmed the news. 15 different charges? They threw the book at them.
All those blacks at the press conference. Not a single white.
Those 2 officers do not stand a chance. No black on the jury will find them innocent.
My neighbor is a cop. Good guy. Retired in the fall. I haven't asked him about it but I bet he is thrilled he's out after watching all this go on.
ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS TO THE NTH DEGREE!!!!!!!
The video CLEARLY shows the perp pointing the Taser GUN at the cop, and now cops have to grit their teeth and pray the perp didn’t pull a real gun? This is ALL on the back of the perp! HE chose to get shit faced, HE chose to fight the cops, HE chose to steal the Taser gun and bolt, HE chose to turn around and point it at the cop!!! OUR COUNTRY IS UNDER ATTACK!!!
Pretty soon the cops will refuse to do anything except traffic tickets.
NOT EVEN THAT ANYMORE.
EVER HEARD OF THE FERGUSON EFFECT?
He was charge also with aggravated assault. Guessing not so much.
“No jury in the world is going to convict.”
HA Ha country is full of self loathing white guilt folks and blacks who hate whitey. Those 2 officers are going to be made an example of.
This what happens when there are black racist like this D.A. and the mayor, very similar to the Federal District judge Emmett Sullivan, the judge that wants to hang Gen. Flynn. Also, the black judge in Dallas Texas that demanded the white hair saloon owner apologize or go to jail.
This is just the beginning!
Apparently you can only be arrested if you agree to be arrested now if you are a protected class.
after the stunt the DA just pulled, trying him on live tv, no, he can’t get a fair trial
11 charges for the one, and 3 assault charges for the other - one assault charge for ‘stepping on (the deceased’s) arm’ after he was shot
No job immunity for either officer.
How many hours until the entire Atlanta PD quits?
Wouldn’t be too sure of that, prosecutors and judges rig these things all the time and gettign a jury of “your peers” is improbable at best these days since most people who are educated and right thinking have jobs and are seldom selected.
I don't think there is a place in this country right now that he could get a fair trial.
If Im on the jury..100 percent NOT GUILTY on ALL CHARGES..an absolute farce..I wouldn’t blame the Atlanta PD if they all just left..whats the point, apparently you are NOT allowed to defend yourself, the criminal has all the rights
“Personally, I would have told Brooks he either calls someone to take him home,”
I have known plenty of whites who got dui’s and I have never heard them given that opportunity.
I’m not an expert on Tasers, so bear with me.
1) Aren’t tasers considered non-lethal weapons? It seems to me that this is the rationale for using tasers for “pain compliance” if a suspect refuses to follow a policeman’s order. If they are non-lethal when a policeman uses them, aren’t they also then non-lethal when a perpetrator uses them?
2) Aren’t tasers single shot weapons? After he fired the first charge over his shoulder wouldn’t he have then been carrying an empty weapon? Wouldn’t the policeman know this, since he saw the charge being fired? He just took the weapon, not the holster, so I’m assuming he wouldn’t have reloads. Where are the reloads stored?
3) Even assuming, somehow he was able to shoot the policeman with his empty Taser and go back to pick up the service weapon from the then incapacitated officer, wouldn’t the other policemen (the one who lost his Taser in the first place) been free to respond with his service weapon?
Not being snarky, I am genuinely interested in the response to these comments.
Mark Levin [FB post]
“If you watched this just-ended press conference with the Fulton County, GA district attorney, you should be stunned — a disgusting performance by a political DA, trying a case at a one-sided media event, and charging the officer with felony murder (!) and anything else the DA could throw against the wall (this is called, politely, overcharging). Now we will see who truly believes in justice and who does not, and who has the courage to speak out and who does not.”
Bernard B. Kerik @BernardKerik
Watching the @FultonCountyDA’s circus and trial by media. No influencing the jury pool here! So there is no indictment? There was no grand jury? Where is the Georgia Bureau of Investigation?
4:05 PM · Jun 17, 2020
No way. I’d move to have the trial in Mongolia.
We pretty much now have Roland Freisler’s “Peoples’ Courts” now.
The DA is up for election. That’s all you need to know.
Fulton County DA Paul Howard. No need to look.
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