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]]>A lawyer for the ex-Atlanta police officer accused of fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks criticized the Fulton County district attorney Thursday for trying to obtain a search warrant that he said would provide details on Americans who donated to his client during an online fundraiser.
Noah Pines, one of former Officer Garrett Rolfe’s attorneys, has already requested that Paul Howard, the prosecutor, recuse himself from the case due to his public statements about the shooting, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
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A judge denied the warrant due to a lack of “probable cause,” the newspaper reported.
Prosecutors hoped to learn about the origins of the online fundraiser and what happened to the money that was collected, the paper said. Prosecutors hoped to determine if there was any evidence to support a bail-jumping charge, the paper reported, citing an official from the district attorney’s office.
Pines told the paper that Howard “sought to uncover the private information of Americans who donated to Garrett Rolfe’s defense because they believed in his innocence.”
The district attorney’s office did not respond to the paper or an after-hours email from Fox News seeking comment.
Pines told the paper that the move may have been a “pretext to intimidate the people who have spoken out on behalf of our client.”
Rolfe, 27, faces 11 charges including felony murder in the killing of Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man.
Police body cameras showed Rolfe and another officer having a calm conversation with Brooks for more than 40 minutes after complaints that Brooks had fallen asleep in his car in a Wendy’s restaurant’s drive-thru lane on June 12.
But when officers told him he’d had too much to drink to be driving and tried to handcuff him, Brooks resisted. A struggle was caught on dash camera video. Brooks grabbed a stun gun from an officer and fled, firing the stun gun at Rolfe as he ran away.
An autopsy found Brooks was shot twice in the back.
Rolfe was fired shortly after the shooting and the other officer, Devin Brosnan, was placed on desk duty. The police chief stepped down less than 24 hours after the shooting. Lawyers for both men have said their actions were justified.
The paper reported that the online effort pulled in more than $500,000. Rolfe is out on bond and was recently criticized for traveling to Florida without permission.
“It is disrespectful, number one, to the judge. Number two, to the judicial system. And, number three, to the family of Rayshard Brooks,” attorney Chris Stewart told WSB-TV. “He is an officer. He understands this process better than anyone else. It doesn’t list vacation as one of those things.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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]]>Melissa Rolfe says she was fired from her job in a “political move” because her stepson is ex-Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe.
In an interview Tuesday with Fox News, Melissa Rolfe spoke in detail about what happened after Garrett Rolfe was criminally charged for the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks on June 12 — which fueled protests against police brutality that already were erupting over the death of George Floyd. Apart from the ongoing criminal case, Melissa Rolfe lost her job on June 18 as the human resources director of Equity Prime Mortgage in Atlanta. While the company has said this was due to creating “a hostile work environment,” Melissa Rolfe maintains she was fired because of her relationship to her stepson.
“It was a political move,” said Rolfe, who has firmly stood by her stepson and said the “war on police officers” must end.
Melissa Rolfe started at Equity Prime Morgage in Atlanta in February as the human resources director for the company’s nearly 400 nationwide employees, she said.
Immediately after Brooks’ death, which garnered national attention and sparked more outcry from Black Lives Matter activists, Rolfe was assured she had the company’s support. Equity Prime Mortgage’s president Eddy Perez called and offered Rolfe six to eight weeks of paid time off so she could be with her family, Rolfe said.
“I offered to work from home and he said ‘no, no don’t worry about it. Your job is safe,'” Rolfe said. “‘Don’t worry about anything…Just take care of your family.”
But the company support quickly evaporated on June 18, a day after a Georgia District attorney slapped Garrett Rolfe with 11 charges, including felony murder, which could potentially lead to the death penalty. (A second officer, Devin Brosnan, is facing three charges, including aggravated assault.)
After Melissa Rolfe and her husband had just dropped off their son at the attorney’s office to turn himself into the authorities, Melissa had a 56-second call with her direct manager. Equity Prime Mortgage was terminating her immediately and didn’t provide any reason. Her boss offered to pack up and ship her belongings from her office in Atlanta and then the conversation abruptly ended, she said.
As Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” reported June 19 about her abrupt dismissal, Equity Prime Mortgage put out a statement of reasons for the firing that shocked Melissa Rolfe.
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Equity said Rolfe was sacked for violating company policy and creating an uncomfortable working environment for fellow employees. The company said it values “diversity of thought” but “when those views create a hostile working environment, we must make difficult decisions and part ways.”
Rolfe was “stunned” at the allegation, especially since she hadn’t been in the office since Brooks’ death. And as the HR director, she’s well versed on company policies and maintains she did nothing improper.
“It was such false statements about me. Nothing was true.” Rolfe said.
“When I would speak with my direct manager and with the president, I was being assured that everything was fine in the office, continually through the phone calls and text messages that I was receiving,” Rolfe said. “Everything’s fine. My job was fine. Don’t worry about it. We’re not getting any negative feedback. So I was very surprised at how I was able to create a hostile work environment. I hadn’t been back.”
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Equity Prime Mortgage told Fox News Tuesday “we have no further comment on the matter.”
Rolfe suspects the company may have targeted her for Facebook postings where she stood by Garrett and reached out to a local politician, Marjorie Greene, who has been outspoken on backing the blue.
On Melissa’s Facebook page she’s posted pictures and notes backing her son’s innocence and standing up for police officers, which have been the target of nationwide protests in the wake of Floyd’s death.
Rolfe has posted pictures of Garrett in uniform saying “I stand with Officer Rolfe” and promoted the Georgia Law Enforcement Organization’s fundraising page for Garrett’s legal defense fund, which calls the shooting “justified.” On the afternoon of June 18, she spoke out in support of the wave of officers calling out sick in the Atlanta Police Department, saying “Blue Flu must continue and grow until Officer Garrett Rolfe is released on bond!!”
Rolfe also reached out to Greene, who is vying to become the next congresswoman for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. “Our family has been completely devastated by all of this nonsense,” Rolfe wrote in thanking Greene for her pro-law enforcement positions.
Rolfe says nothing she did was a fireable offense and has not gotten any guidance from her former employer about what exactly they had an issue with.
“We’ve heard rumors that it was due to a Facebook post,” Rolfe said. “We heard the rumor that it was because I reached out to our future Congresswoman Marjorie Greene, which I absolutely have the right to do. But again, they’ve not said anything so I don’t know what their exact position is.”
The company president, Perez, told Rolfe that some of the security guards in the Atlanta office were upset with her and were making statements, she said.
“Supposedly the statement was ‘did you know your HR director’s son killed one of our brothers,'” Rolfe said the president told her. “I was flabbergasted.”
Though she lost her job, Rolfe said her husband still has full-time employment and they’ve been fortunate to have gotten donations to cover Garrett’s legal defense fund.
She said she would like to work again in HR, but has no interest in going back to Equity Prime Mortgage because of how they treated her.
“I do not want that job back,” Rolfe said. “I’ve lost total confidence with that company. I wouldn’t feel safe at that company anymore. They have completely defamed me.”
Police body-camera video showed Brooks, 27, and officers having a calm and cooperative conversation for more than 40 minutes. A struggle erupted when police tried to handcuff Brooks for being intoxicated behind the wheel of his car at a Wendy’s drive-thru. Brooks grabbed a stun gun from one of the officers and fired it in their direction as he tried to flee. Rolfe, in pursuit, opened fire with a handgun. Brooks died after he was shot twice in the back.
Lawyers for Rolfe said he used permissible force as he feared for his safety and those of the civilians around him.
Melissa Rolfe said she’s focused now on proving her stepson’s innocence. Garrett’s charges came in the wake of nationwide disgust with then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was videotaped kneeling on Floyd’s neck. Activists took to the streets demanding racial justice and defunding the police. Politicians have come under pressure to act.
Rolfe said her son is being unfairly lumped into the same category as Chauvin, even though the circumstances are different.
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“I would say withhold your judgment…Let the truth come out,” said Rolfe, who believes Garrett will eventually be exonerated.
“I feel like it was bad timing all the way around,” Rolfe said, citing the unrest and protests in Atlanta and nationwide. “We have a horrible war on police officers, and it needs to end.”
She urges people to stand with the police, thank them for their service and buy them a meal if they can.
“We’re trying to pass that along because this movement is so much bigger than just Garrett,” Rolfe said. “We would really like to get the word out to say thank you to a police officer.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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]]>A former Atlanta police officer facing murder charges in connection with the death of Rayshard Brooks outside a Wendy’s restaurant waived his first court appearance Friday, according to reports.
Defense lawyers for former Officer Garrett Rolfe also opted not to attend the court session, FOX 5 of Atlanta reported.
Rolfe’s hearing had been scheduled for noon at the Fulton County jail, the station reported. He faces 11 charges in connection with Brooks’ death on June 12, including felony murder and assault with a deadly weapon, the report said.
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Rolfe was sent to the Gwinnett County Adult Detention Center, pending further legal action.
Link to 2015 case
Meanwhile, Rolfe was previously involved in a 2015 shooting incident that left a man with a punctured lung, court documents show, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Former Atlanta police Officer Garrett Rolfe faces felony murder and assault with a deadly weapon charges in connection with the death of Rayshard Brooks on June 12, authorities say.
Rolfe and other officers were finally cleared of wrongdoing in that case in February, five years after that shooting occurred, the newspaper reported.
The 2015 case was unusual because the police gunfire that occurred was never mentioned in the original incident report or in documents presented to the victim’s court-appointed attorney, the Journal-Constitution reported.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” retired Fulton County Superior Court Judge Doris Downs told the newspapr Friday. “It was the first time I’d ever come across a case where the incident report doesn’t even mention the fact that shots were fired.”
“I’ve never seen anything like it. It was the first time I’d ever come across a case where the incident report doesn’t even mention the fact that shots were fired.”
— Doris Downs, retired Fulton County Superior Court judge
The judge said she immediately suspected a cover-up and alerted state investigators.
The attorney for the wounded man in the 2015 case claimed that three of the five shots fired in the incident were from Rolfe’s weapon, the newspaper reported.
‘He took the risk’
In the Brooks case, the 27-year-old former officer could face life in prison or even the death penalty if convicted.
His defense attorney, Noah Pines, contends that Rolfe’s actions were justified.
“Mr. Brooks chose to attack two officers, to disarm one of them, and to point and fire a deadly weapon at Officer Rolfe,” Pines said in a statement. “He took their lives, and his own, into his hands. He took the risk that their justified response might be a deadly one. Nobody is here to applaud the death of Mr. Brooks. He was a father, he was a member of his community, and his death was a tragedy. But not every tragedy is a crime.”
An autopsy revealed Brooks was shot twice in his back, and authorities have said the bullets were from Rolfe’s weapon.
A nearby vehicle with people inside also was struck during the confrontation with Brooks but none of those people were injured.
Police had been called to the Wendy’s restaurant on a report that a man was sleeping in a vehicle parked in the restaurant’s drive-thru area. When Rolfe and another officer arrived, they questioned Brooks and then got involved in a struggle, during which Brooks was seen on video accessing an officer’s stun gun.
Brooks then tried to flee but was shot while running away. Video shows Brooks at one point turning around and pointing the stun gun at the officers from a distance.
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A second Atlanta police officer, Devin Brosnan, faces charges of aggravated assault and violation of oath of office in connection with the case. Brosnan posted bail and awaits further court action.
Both Rolfe and Brosnan turned themselves in Thursday after nearly a week of public outcry that they face charges.
But the defendants also have supporters: The Georgia Law Enforcement Organization has raised about $250,000 for their defense, FOX 5 reported.
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