Rayshard

Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta police officer fired after the killing of Rayshard Brooks last week, now faces 11 charges including felony murder, which could potentially lead to the death penalty, a Georgia district attorney announced Wednesday.A second officer, Devin Brosnan, is facing three charges, including aggravated assault. Brosnan has agreed to testify in the case against Rolfe, Fulton County…

Rayshard Brooks was asleep in his car in a Wendy’s drive-through Friday night when police arrived.  A little more than 40 minutes later an officer shot and killed him.  Video footage released by the Atlanta Police Department captures the timeline leading up to Brooks’ death, ruled a homicide by the Fulton County Medical Examiner on Sunday. Through a combination of…

A Wendy's employee who called 911 before the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta told the dispatcher that a customer who appeared to be intoxicated was asleep in his car in the restaurant's drive-thru, according to a record of the call."I tried to wake him up, but he's parked dead in the middle…

Sherialyn Byrdsong stood in the parking lot of the Wendy’s drive-through where Rayshard Brooks was killed four nights ago and listened to a woman addressing the crowd passionately. “It’s getting dark and I need to get my baby home,” the speaker said. “But I need y’all to listen for a minute. I need y’all to…

The family of Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed black man who was shot twice in the back by a white Atlanta police officer on Friday after he fell asleep in his car, have called for murder charges and a radical overhaul of the city’s police department.In an intense and tearful press conference attended by about 10…