The latest police killing of an "unarmed" black man unfolded Friday night in Atlanta, and footage released Saturday afternoon is already causing a major uproar in the city. Activists are demanding that Atlanta's police chief Erika Shields, whose statements to the press and willingness to push deescalation tactics made her a media darling during the unrest that followed the killing of George Floyd.
Though the only details of the incident so far involve grainy cellphone camera footage, it's clear in the video that one of the two APD officers involved in the incident shot a suspect in the back as he was running away after wresting one of the officer's tasers away from him.
The Georgia NAACP claimed the APD needs "a serious overhaul" and argued that the deceased suspect, later identified as Rayshard Brooks, 27, was killed for "sleeping" (not for attacking two officers and stealing one of their weapons)
@KeishaBottoms, @Atlanta_Police needs a serious overhaul. The continuation of these kinds of actions require immediate resolution. Instead of seeing an improvement, it continues to happen day after day.
— Georgia NAACP (@Georgia_NAACP) June 13, 2020
Chief Shields must be relieved immediately. https://t.co/cHQMdosqip
The footage posted to twitter earlier shows Brooks successfully wrestle both officers to the ground before running off with the taser. At the end of the video, several gunshots ring out, though the shooting of Brooks isn't shown.
ATLANTA PD SHOOT AND KILL AN UNARMED MAN
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) June 13, 2020
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read more here: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/activists-demand-atlanta-police-chief-resign-over-latest-police-killing-unarmed-black-man
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isn't the guy white fighting a white officer? what does that have to do with racism?
These people are lying their way to hell.
Being black on this day and age seems to be the only criteria to get away with anything. Whether it is looting, killing each other on a daily basis or burning down your city goes without any kind of punishment. Thousands of black babies are aborted each month but no one cares. We have families with no Daddy in the picture, welfare mom's who could care less, and schools in the black neighborhoods that teaches nothing of value. Do I care if a black criminal is killed by a police officer - hell no! It is a systematic destruction by the Democrats who think throwing money at a problem is the solution. Until all the democrats are thrown out of governments in all the blue states, nothing will get done.
So now it is ok to grab a taser from a police officer and then make claim he was unarmed. He assaulted a police office which is a felony. And then to run from the scene of the crime is now somehow justified. If me I would have shot the perp the moment he assaulted me or anyone else. I am sick and tired of these so called 'innocent thugs' being praised as if they died as choir boys.
I feel exactly the same way that you and Eddie do.What the demoncrats have wrought on us is disgusting.