Rayshard Brooks of Atlanta, Georgia, United States has died. He was 27.
Rayshard Brooks
On June 12, 2020, the Atlanta Police Department received a call from a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant at 125 University Avenue in Peoplestown, Atlanta. According to the report, a man was sleeping in his car in the drive-through.
Because the car was blocking the drive-through, other customers had to drive around it to pick up their orders, according to the complaint. At around 10:30 p.m. that night, Atlanta Police Department officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Bronsan arrived at the parking lot of the restaurant.
The man in the vehicle was Brooks, who failed the field sobriety test performed by Rolfe. The Atlanta man also failed to correctly identify the city he was in, saying he was on Old Dixie Highway in Forest Park, an Atlanta suburb about 10 miles away from the Wendy’s restaurant where he was found sleeping.
Brooks told Bronson that he had one and a half margaritas that night before taking a preliminary breathalyzer test. The reading came back at .108, which was slightly above the legal limit of blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 grams under Georgia law.
When Rolfe tried to handcuff Brooks, the latter resisted, stole Bronsan’s Taser and pointed it at the two officers. After Rolfe shot Brooks, the latter was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
At the hospital, Brooks was pronounced dead after undergoing surgery. Hours before his death, he celebrated his eldest daughter’s eighth birthday and had planned on taking her skating the next day.
Atlanta
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