Fatal Atlanta Police Shooting Ignites New Wave Of Protests

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Atlanta’s police commissioner stepped down Saturday following the killing of Rayshard Brooks, as the national reckoning over racial justice and policing continues.

cities and towns to protest racial injustice and police brutality, another killing of a black man at the hands of a white officer, captured on video, is continuing to increase scrutiny on policing and heighten calls to reform. “Police officers can't continue to be judge, jury, and executioner,” Minnesota Rep.

. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation—which is probing the matter—said that the 27-year-old Brooks ran from the police after failing a sobriety test and grabbing an officer’s Taser, which GBI Directorsaid he “appeared to point” at police “as he fled the restaurant parking lot, prompting the officer to reach for his gun.” Reynolds estimated that the officer who shot Brooks fired three times.

The fallout has been swift, with chief of the Atlanta Police Department stepping down Saturday. Atlanta Mayor, the city’s police chief, at a news conference on Saturday. The mayor said it was Shields’ own decision to step down, one she made “because of her desire that Atlanta be a model of what meaningful reform should look like across the country” and “so that the city may move forward with urgency in rebuilding the trust so desperately needed throughout our communities.

 

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Here we go again! Another thug killed, because he didn’t listen!

Thanks to social media all haters, got united and the hate they feel is been activated Nation wide, all hateful clusters got united some how now they are busy destroying setting off fire and fear?

These is the proof, that America hates itself.? they possess no love, only hate a very hateful Nation dedicated to, destroy anything respect is low --hate got united*

the masses are rising .... keepfucking around with the masses... Yes people are gonna get hurt much property is gonna be lost.... if you dont cut the cancerous injustice out of this country its gonna go to the ground and nobody wins. Defund police and rebuild the justice system

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