Atlanta funeral honors life of Rayshard Brooks Funeral services were held Tuesday at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church for Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man whose death in a police shooting earlier this month sparked protests. Brooks' death, less than three weeks after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, helped fuel a growing national…
Scores of mourners, some dressed all in white and others wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, remembered Rayshard Brooks and called for change during a private funeral service Tuesday at a historic Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached."We cannot stop our demonstrations until our voices are heard and our demands for police reform are met. We…
(CNN)The family and friends of Rayshard Brooks will honor his life in a funeral service on Tuesday, more than a week after the 27-year-old father was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer. A…
June 18, 2020 | 8:23am | Updated June 18, 2020 | 9:59am President Trump called the killing of Rayshard Brooks at the hands of an Atlanta cop a “terrible situation,” but added in a televised interview that “you can’t resist a police officer.” The president told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday night that the…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…