Paul Howard, the Fulton County district attorney, said Sunday that the 27-year-old black man who was fatally shot during an encounter with two white officers “did not seem to present any threat to anyone” and charges could come as soon as Wednesday.“The fact that it would escalate to his death seems unreasonable,” Howard told CNN.…
Black man, 27, died of blood loss and organ injuries from two shots to the back, autopsy finds Protesters rally in the street in front of a Wendy’s restaurant destroyed amid protests over the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, whose death has been ruled a homicide. Photograph: John Amis/EPA The death of Rayshard Brooks, a…
CLOSE Atlanta resident Rayshard Brooks was shot by an officer during a struggle and died after surgery, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. WochitATLANTA – Hours before police shot him outside a Wendy's fast-food restaurant in Atlanta on Friday, Rayshard Brooks had done what dads do: enjoyed a father-daughter day in honor of his little girl's eighth…
Video footage released by the Atlanta Police Department show officers talking for nearly half an hour with Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot. The encounter would end with Brooks fatally shot. Hours later came the announcement that the city’s police chief had stepped aside and that the officer who shot Brooks had been fired.…
Sen. Tim ScottTimothy (Tim) Eugene ScottSunday show preview: Congress debates police reform legislation after George Floyd killing The Hill's 12:30 Report: Governors react as COVID-19 cases spike The Hill's Morning Report - Trump wants executive order on policing; silent on pending bills MORE (R-S.C.), the point man for Senate Republicans’ police reform bill, said Sunday…
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…