A new center of looting and rioting may have opened up after a policeman in Atlanta shot and killed Rayshard Brooks.
Brooks had been stopped and after he failed his breathalyzer test, he began fighting with police who were trying to cuff him.
Brooks fought with two policemen and he managed to get the taser from one of the officers. He finally broke free and was running away when he turned and aimed the taser at one of the cops, who then fired a shot and killed him.
The mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms called for the immediate dismissal of the office after she said that there was no justification for the shooting.
That makes me wonder. If someone attacked Bottoms with a taser, should the police bodyguards allow her to be hit with it in order to save their jobs? Inquiring minds want to know.
Afterward, rioters burned down the Wendy’s in whose parking lot Brooks was killed, followed by the customary looting of businesses.
After setting Wendy’s is on fire, the protesters/rioters now set other small fires & looting a gas station.
Fire department is not responding due to unsafe conditions & the crowd is still growing. #AtlantaRiot#LawAndOrderpic.twitter.com/asya112LA1— ~Marietta✌ (@_MariettaDavis) June 14, 2020
I mean both officers should be put on administrative leave but the mayor should have kept her mouth shut until the investigation was over. If the officer was deemed to have acted improperly, then he could be fired and charged with a crime.
A second video popped up showing Brooks pointing the taser at an officer:
From the video Centermillennieals.
You can see the guy pointed something at the cop and that’s what got him killed. It may be the taser, it may be the gun from our perspective. It’s more logical that it would be the taser, so eminent threat was absolutely triggered by this event. Unfortunately it had to go down like this, because two times he risked the officers lives. This goes to show angles are extremely important in situations like this.
