A police officer in United States’ Atlanta city on Friday shot dead an African-American man while trying to arrest him, triggering more pro...
A police officer in United States’ Atlanta city on Friday shot dead an African-American man while trying to arrest him, triggering more protests amid massive outrage over George Floyd’s death last month, Reuters reported. The city’s police chief resigned on Saturday.
Rayshard Brooks, 27, had fallen asleep in the drive-thru line of a fast food restaurant named Wendy’s. The restaurants’s employees, then, called the police to complain that he was blocking other customers in line. The police tried to take him into custody after he failed sobriety test.
The entire incident was filmed by an onlooker. The video from the spot showed Brooks struggling with two officers on the ground outside the restaurant. He then broke free and ran across the parking lot, apparently with a Taser gun, a non-lethal weapon, in his hand.
In another video footage from the restaurant’s security cameras, Brooks is seen being shot by a police officer and falling to the ground, after he possibly aims the Taser at the officer.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Brooks ran the length of about six cars in the parking lot, turned back and pointed what he had in his hand at one of the officers. “At that point, the Atlanta officer...
