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Garrett Rolfe and Rayshard Brooks He’s back. Garrett Rolfe, the fired Atlanta cop who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks last summer, has been reinstated by the Atlanta Civil Service Board. So much for being fired by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms On Wednesday, the board released its decision, stating: “Due to the City’s failure to comply […]

*Another unarmed Black man was killed by police over the weekend, this time in Atlanta. His name was Rayshard Brooks and he was 27 years old. The officer who shot Brooks has been fired, and the police chief has resigned, while across the country, protests against police brutality and racism continue. NBC News correspondent Blayne Alexander has been reporting the story in Georgia and spoke […]

[…] were on duty. The conversation took place in June 2020, apparently the day a local Black Lives Matter march was scheduled in Hamilton. Their comments occurred after Rayshard Brooks – no relation to John – was shot in the back by Atlanta cop Garrett Rolfe in a Wendy’s parking lot.  While it’s no surprise to […]

[…] parking lot on June 12, and the subsequent resignation of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields: “We are deeply saddened yet again by another senseless shooting death, this time of Rayshard Brooks. Our hearts and prayers go out to his family, the people who loved him, and our communities that live with the daily trauma of brutality and violence. Our […]

Garrett Rolfe *#GarrettRolfe, former Atlanta Police Department officer who fatally shot # RayshardBrooks at an Atlanta Wendy’s, is suing Mayor #KeishaLanceBottoms to get his job back. According to @TMZ_tv, Rolfe is suing the mayor and the city interim police chief Rodney Bryant. He claims that his June 13th firing violated  his constitutional right to due process. The ex-officer feels officials […]

[…] an aunt… this pandemic is really serious and people should realize that, because it’s not a joke,” she said.  Last month, Parks helped direct the funeral service of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta. Following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Brooks was fatally shot by police in a Wendy’s parking lot in Atlanta on […]

[…] into.  Police are now hoping a $20,000 reward will lead them to the man responsible for the little girl’s death. Turner was shot near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed by police last month. “You cant blame this on a police officer. You can’t say this about criminal justice reform,” Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms […]

[…] acquiescing is not enough? How do we teach them to subdue the instinct to fight back, knowing that they could be suffocated or shot to death, like Rayshard Brooks? Black kids doing homework (Yay Images) The first lady of a prominent church in an under-resourced community in Southern New Jersey where the police department was […]

[…] city experienced anti-police protests following the May 25 death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police — and dealt with even more violence following the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. Brooks, 27, was shot twice in the back by Atlanta cops outside a local Wendy’s fast-food restaurant. Perry said the gift card giveaway was a way […]

[…] “She had an easy sense of humor that could be — in an appropriate setting, of course — a bit saucy.” OTHER NEWS ON EURWEB: Family of Rayshard Brooks Reaches $1M Settlement with City of Atlanta Over His Killing by Police | VIDEO Thurgood Marshall – family (Bettmann Archive-Getty Images) He noted that Marshall often […]

[…] or simply hold his head up. The more time passed the more the family learned how much had been lost,” the family continued.  OTHER NEWS: Family of Rayshard Brooks Reaches $1M Settlement with City of Atlanta Over His Killing by Police | VIDEO Sinbad (Credit: A Journey Forward) Sinbad spent 9 months in the hospital […]

[…] her mother in the family car when gunshots ripped through their vehicle — fatally striking the child on July 4. She was shot near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed by police last month.  OTHER NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED: Adele Wants ‘Soulful’ New Album, Teams with Raphael Saadiq and John Legend The car was […]

[…] catapulted him as a headlining figure of social responsibility and activism, as demonstrated in the wake of the slayings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks. Throughout his 20-year music career, Mike has been instrumental in the social justice and civil rights movements leading nationwide voter registration initiatives within the Black community, […]

[…] someone on social media so in-eloquently said, “we need to make this punk bitch famous.” We agree. It may not be up there with George Floyd or Rayshard Brooks, but what happened is still a crime. As Facebooker Paris Milan posted: This is how this thug reacted to being Rejected.”  This is how she captioned […]

[…] shooting in the city. Bryant became interim chief in June 2020, when then-chief Erika Shields resigned a day after an Atlanta Police Department officer shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, a Black man, in a Wendy’s parking lot. Bryant was confirmed as chief last May. “Chief Bryant has answered our city’s call time and again, and […]