Rayshard Brooks

The police killing of a black man in Atlanta who was being arrested for being intoxicated is hotly debated by law enforcement experts and others.

Pleading through tears Monday, the family of a black man killed by Atlanta police outside a drive-thru demanded changes in the criminal justice system and called on protesters to refrain from violence amid heightened tensions across the U.S. three weeks after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. An autopsy found that 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot twice in the back...

The family of Rayshard Brooks spoke out at a press conference on Monday, asking for the police officers involved in his death to be charged and convicted. Police shot Brooks twice in the back outside of a Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday night after someone reported Brooks for sleeping in his car.

Anger and frustration spilled into the streets of Atlanta over the weekend after another police shooting involving a Black man. Rayshard Brooks died from two shots to the back on Friday at a Wendy’s, in a case ruled as a homicide by city authorities.

Multiple cameras including Atlanta Police bodycams and dashcams captured the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks. Brooks was being handcuffed by police when a struggle ensued and Brooks tries to flee with an officers’ stun gun. He was shot in the back three times and later died at a nearby hospital. Police were called to...

The widow of Rayshard Brooks, who was shot by police outside of an Atlanta Wendy’s Friday, said she cannot watch the videos of her husband being killed, NBC News reports. “I’m already in enough pain right now so to see anything of my husband being shot down … I couldn’t see that. I can’t stomach that right now,” Tomika Miller...

An Atlanta police officer has been fired following the fatal shooting of a Black man and a second officer was placed on administrative duty. The move announced by police early Sunday comes on the heels of the resignation of Atlanta’s police chief following the killing of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks.