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Atlanta police shooting death of Rayshard Brooks roils city
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | June 13, 2020 | J. Scott Trubey, Vanessa McCray, and Arielle Kass

Posted on 06/13/2020 7:11:02 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17

Atlanta police shot and killed a black man late Friday night following a struggle outside a Wendy’s restaurant on the city’s southside, in an incident that inflamed tensions over police use of force and racial injustice that have roiled Atlanta and cities across the nation since the Memorial Day death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

Video of the shooting of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who had allegedly fallen asleep in his car and blocked the restaurant’s drive-through, went viral across social media. Protesters marching for a third weekend in Atlanta for justice for Floyd and other black men and women killed by police quickly demanded a full investigation Saturday of the Brooks shooting, and the Georgia NAACP called for the termination of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: anothergoldcoffin; atlanta; blm; callingmrcrump; devinbrosan; erikashields; fultoncounty; garrettrolfe; georgia; getthewagonrhett; keishalancebottoms; lootingatlanta; naacp; paulhoward; police; rayshardbrooks; shooting; taser; tomorrowisanotherday; wendys
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To: setter

Don’t bother. That one has lost its mind will be rioting next.


261 posted on 06/13/2020 9:07:39 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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To: hole_n_one

Au contraire mon frere, I do common sense and logic. Bigtime.


262 posted on 06/13/2020 9:08:42 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: yldstrk

Uh how about you go out in the evening to monitor the streets and how about you deal with this jerk that was probably high on meth how about you deal with them oh and don’t shoot them cuz people like you will say I’m livid with the cops killing people


263 posted on 06/13/2020 9:09:41 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie ( BEST ELECTION EVER....MAGA)
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To: Zhang Fei

Third


264 posted on 06/13/2020 9:10:56 PM PDT by alrea
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To: DAC21; Old Yeller
“Police in every liberal city should just say eff it and quit”

Uhhh they have family and bills like most others, it just isn’t that easy.

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For many already on the job, true.

However, going forward, any Caucasian even remotely thinking of getting into law enforcement in the historically liberal cities, should not think twice about it....they should think 3 and 4 times about it and their family and friends...if they loved them, would discourage it with all their conviction.

265 posted on 06/13/2020 9:10:56 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Listen, I really don’t care that he was high, I regard that as a health problem, not a moral failing. He didn’t deserve the death penalty.


266 posted on 06/13/2020 9:11:06 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: sport
When I was young drunks who had too much to drive slept it off in parking lots. The Police let them alone.

EXACTLY. Now it's somehow "conservative" to support cops who escalate every stupid incident into a life-or-death matter. WTF happened??

I am conservative. I do NOT like police. They are NOT my friend. They get into every damned aspect of our lives these days. I don't want traffic cams, plate scanners, facial recognition, cops killing dogs, cops given 100% leeway to use lethal force.

Our collective memory seems to have forgotten the time when CITIZENS were involved in law enforcement, and would often help hunt outlaws and be permitted lethal force. This was common. When politicians were terrified of citizens who might tar and feather them in the streets if they went too far. Now we are all pathetic, willing slaves of a police state.

267 posted on 06/13/2020 9:11:14 PM PDT by montag813
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To: yldstrk

Go out there tough guy.. either you’re drunk you’re trolling or you’re just trying to rile people up on this thread pathetic


268 posted on 06/13/2020 9:11:45 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie ( BEST ELECTION EVER....MAGA)
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To: Repeal 16-17

Who among us has ever resisted the police in such a manner? If you were to resist in that way, would you reasonably expect to survive the encounter? Looks like suicide by cop to me.


269 posted on 06/13/2020 9:11:49 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: House Atreides
I take it you’ve never been in a fight with a man high on meth?

The Wendys employee said he was drunk. When the cops arrived he was asleep. Why not just let him sleep it off?

270 posted on 06/13/2020 9:12:05 PM PDT by montag813
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To: yldstrk

Ambulance chaser??


271 posted on 06/13/2020 9:12:21 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: Steve Van Doorn

The shooting of Daniel shaver was one of the most horrific cases.

I agree that What happened to Wendy’s is not excessive force.

I side with the cop here.


272 posted on 06/13/2020 9:12:45 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: nutmeg; dfwgator
"My brother-in-law and his wife are seriously thinking of moving to New Zealand."

Advise them to reconsider because guess who is buying lots of property there. The mega rich liberals. Guess what kind of culture and politics they will bring with them!

273 posted on 06/13/2020 9:13:00 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Jrabbit

Family law, child abuse and neglect cases, custody, paternity, minor guardianship.


274 posted on 06/13/2020 9:13:26 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: yldstrk

Yes he CHOSE the death penalty he chose it by his behavior just like some of the other black quote victims on quote who decide they’re going to tangle with another person that has a gun if you decide to attack fight a person who is carrying a weapon you might just get killed that’s simple


275 posted on 06/13/2020 9:13:31 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie ( BEST ELECTION EVER....MAGA)
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To: Repeal 16-17

They want to use collective guilt, okay, well punish the mob by denying them any form of justice for their childish actions.

276 posted on 06/13/2020 9:13:55 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Repeal 16-17

Just in time as the Minneapolis shooting started to die down.

Another freaking week of 24 hr hand wringing and finger pointing.

November can’t come soon enough.


277 posted on 06/13/2020 9:15:12 PM PDT by hattend
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To: HollyB

Base on the two videos I saw, it looks justified. The victim actively resisted and fought the officers and attempted to use a stolen taser against them. A Taser can incapacitate them and allow unrestricted access to their firearm.


278 posted on 06/13/2020 9:15:14 PM PDT by matt04
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To: yldstrk

Ummm, If you attack the police anything can happen.

Your life may be different than mine, but I don’t attack police.

They want me in jail for the night, I go.

You suck as any kind of legal counsel.


279 posted on 06/13/2020 9:15:57 PM PDT by eyedigress (Joe, put your mask on!)
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To: yldstrk

You are asking officers to do the impossible. They contact the guy, all is peaceful until they have to arrest him. Then the cops are fighting for their lives with a powerful man who is trying to take their weapons and kill them.

He gets a weapon (the cop who shot might not have known in the confusion whether it’s a taser or a gun) and fires it at the officer, then starts to turn.

The officer has to decide now or perhaps die, shoot or don’t shoot.

And he’s “over the top” if he shoots?

My a$$.


280 posted on 06/13/2020 9:16:11 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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