The autopsy on Rayshard Brooks has been completed and his death has been listened as a homicide, while the Fulton County District Attorney is deciding whether to bring charges against the already fired officer:
MYFOX8 – Rayshard Brooks was shot twice in the back, according to a release by the Fulton County, Georgia, Medical Examiner’s Office.
Brooks died from organ damage and blood loss from the two gunshot wounds, according to the office.
The autopsy, performed on Sunday, lists Brooks’ cause of death as gunshot wounds to the back. The manner of death is listed as homicide.
Protesters took to the streets of Atlanta — and elsewhere around the country — again Sunday. In Atlanta, they gathered at the fast food restaurant where Brooks died Friday. The restaurant was torched by protesters Saturday.
The Fulton County District Attorney criticized the police officers’ handling of Brooks’ fatal shooting and said that a decision on whether to bring charges could come around Wednesday.
“(Brooks) did not seem to present any kind of threat to anyone, and so the fact that it would escalate to his death just seems unreasonable,” DA Paul Howard told CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield on Sunday.
“It just seems like this is not the kind of conversation and incident that should have led to someone’s death.”
Brooks, 27, was shot dead by an officer Friday night at a Wendy’s drive-through in the city after police moved to handcuff him for suspected driving under the influence, according to videos from the scene. The videos show that Brooks took an officer’s Taser during the attempted arrest and then fired the Taser at the officers as he ran away.
One officer then fatally shot Brooks three times with his service weapon, authorities said.
This Fulton County DA sounds like a hack. Brooks absolutely presented a threat to the officers as they were trying to handcuff him. He resisted arrest and stole one of their tasers and then used it against the officers as he was trying to get away. That is absolutely a ‘threat’.
In watching the video of what happened, it appears to me the officers responded to this threat appropriately. After all if Brooks had managed to incapacitate one of the officers with the taser, then it would have been just him and the other officer and there’s no telling how that could have turned out.
But this isn’t going to stop the garbage media from lying about this:
Felony assault on a police officer while resisting arrest, stealing an officer’s taser weapon, pointing it at him at point blank range, & firing it at him, may result in the fatal use of force. Facts matter, but not to Joy Reid, who lies so often it’s hard to take her seriously. https://t.co/zbfMg5UjOL
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) June 15, 2020