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The City of Atlanta To Pay $1 Million Settlement To Rayshard Brooks Family After Deadly Shooting
Atlanta’s city council voted 15-0 to approve the settlement, which will be paid to the Brooks estate, and the Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys firm.
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Atlanta Cops Who Killed Rayshard Brooks Won’t Be Charged in Georgia
Brooks' death was a flashpoint in the turbulent summer of 2020
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America's Gonna America: Atlanta Cop Who Was Fired for Fatally Shooting Rayshard Brooks Has Been Reinstated
To me, the saddest part of the Derek Chauvin verdict was that it felt, and continues to feel, like such an anomaly. It is incredibly hard to hold cops accountable for their actions because America agreed a long time ago that brutality and murder are OK as long you do it behind a badge. Think…
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Despite Leaving Town, Bond Not Revoked for Former Officer Who Killed Rayshard Brooks
Despite going on vacation to Florida earlier this month, bond will not be revoked for the former Atlanta police officer charged with killing Rayshard Brooks. According to AJC, a judge has ruled that Garrett Rolfe’s bond order will be modified but not revoked. Rolfe was initially granted a $500,000 bond during a June 30 hearing…
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Prosecutors Request Bond Be Revoked for Former Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks After He Took a Vacation to Florida
Prosecutors in Georgia have requested that the bond order be revoked for the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in June after finding out he recently took a vacation to Florida without getting permission. CBS News reports that prosecutors in the case were only informed on Monday that former officer Garrett Rolfe…
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Atlanta Officers Call in Sick After Former Cop Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Was Charged With Felony Murder
The Black Lives Matter movement sure seems to have brought the crybaby out of cops…the po’-little-tink-tink out of police…the “woe is me” out of wack-ass officers. You would think that black people were asking for something impractical like the public tarring and feathering of everyone who wears a badge. Yet, our request is simple: stop…
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Atlanta Cop Who Killed Rayshard Brooks Was Previously Reprimanded for Use of Force Involving a Firearm
The Atlanta police officer who shot and killed 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks at a Wendy’s parking lot last week had received a written reprimand in 2017 for use of force involving a firearm, according to his disciplinary records. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained the disciplinary histories of both officers involved in Brooks’ killing. Garrett Rolfe, the 27-year-old…