Protests intensified in Atlanta after a police officer shot 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot of a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant. The encounter was caught on surveillance camera and by a witness. Police approached Brooks after he had fallen asleep in his car. The police questioned Brooks, patted him down and gave him a breathalyzer test. Witness videos, surveillance footage, bodycam and dashcam footage show the officers engaged Brooks without incident for 41 minutes before the encounter turned fatal.
Atlanta Police Department officer Devin Brosnan arrived at the Wendy’s restaurant to investigate a report of a man asleep in a car which was blocking the drive-through lane. Brosnan awakened Brooks and told him to move the car to a parking space and take a nap. Brooks fell asleep again without moving the car prompting Brosnan to again wake Brooks and instruct him to park the car. Brosnan checked Brooks’s driver’s license and radioed for assistance from an officer certified to conduct driving under the influence investigations. Officer Garrett Rolfe arrived at 10:56 and, with Brooks’s permission, performed a pat-down search for weapons, a field sobriety test, and a breathalyzer test. Brooks appeared impaired and said he had consumed one to one-and-a-half drinks and denied driving or being too drunk to drive. The Breathalyzer registered a blood alcohol level of 0.108%, above the legal limit of 0.08%. Brooks asked to leave his car in the parking lot overnight and walk to his sister’s house a short distance away.
At 11:23, Rolfe told Brooks: “All right, I think you’ve had too much to drink to be driving. Put your hands behind your back for me”; he and Brosnan then moved behind Brooks to handcuff him. Brooks tried to break free and he and the officers scuffled on the ground. During the struggle Brosnan drew his Taser, but Brooks wrested from him and fired it toward Brosnan before attempting to run away. Brosnan says the Taser contacted him and he struck his head on the pavement. Rolfe drew his own Taser and shot Brooks with it. Brooks fled through the parking lot with Brosnan’s Taser still in hand as Rolfe pursued him and fired again with his own Taser. While still running, Brooks turned to fire the second shot of Brosnan’s Taser – capable of two shots before being reloaded – over Rolfe’s head. According to prosecutors, Brooks and Rolfe were 18 feet apart when Rolfe dropped his Taser, drew his handgun and shot Brooks once in the mid-back and once in the buttocks; a third shot struck a nearby vehicle, narrowly missing its three occupants. According to prosecutors Rolfe then declared, “I got him”.
Within 24 hours of the shooting, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said that she did not believe it was justified, leading to Rolfe’s firing, Brosnan being placed on administrative duty and the resignation of the city’s police chief, Erika Shields. The county medical examiner rule Brooks’ death a homicide and Georgia Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation. The Fulton County District Attorney said Brooks did not present himself as a threat and appeared almost jovial during the encounter. He announced 11 charges against Rolfe: felony murder, five counts of aggravated assault, four police oath violations, and damage to property. He said Rolfe should have been aware that the Taser Brooks had taken posed no danger, as after being fired twice it could not fire again. He also said that Rolfe and Brosnan did not provide timely medical aid to Brooks and that before they did, Rolfe kicked him and Brosnan stood on his shoulders. The district attorney said it was a violation of department policy for Rolfe to begin handcuffing Brooks before telling him he was being arrested.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, February 19th, 2017 was:
STEPHANIE BECKWITH
Jefferson, OH
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
2/13/17
Phyllis Hines
Dean Bruss
Angela Nicole
Amy Hopper
Jennifer Ramlet
Deborah Farris
Derek Jennings
Karen Bondehagen
Sharon Swenson-Nelson
Alisa Jones
Leslie Wagner Hobson
2/14/17
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Kimberly Snyder
Nitasha Shank
Christina Radcliff
Beth Cleveland
Paula Rivers
Nai Merri
Stephanie Beckwith
Jade Good
Mikayla Oakes
Cheryl Hall
Alicia Dansby
Kayla Clemons
Jennifer Ramlet
Kendra George
Mary Alice Ford
Jennifer Ramlet
Emily Rice Bowersock
Anna Nichols
Adaria Johnson
Anna Ashley Pinder
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Amy Stonger
2/15/17
Kathi Taylor
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Christine Acoba
Tabitha Sinks
Lori Capobianco
Misty Shallcross
Joanie Waterman
Kathi Taylor
Alicia Dansby
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
Judy Custer
Jennifer Sparks
Sandra Sue Blanton
Alisa Jones
Kim Floyd
Michelle Hughes
Adaria Johnson
Sheila Carvell
Amy Hopper
Kayla Clemons
2/16/17
Nai Merri
Holly Cajigas
Christina Domingue
Rhonda Nicholson
Phyllis Hines
Brooke Scott
Amy Hopper
Tina Casto-Shafer
LaKishia Wagers
Dale Fish
Kendra George
Kimberly Foster
Jessica Miller
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Lotorya Patrick
Melissa Barnes Walker
Kristina Rosson
Lisa Wright
Lori Capobianco
Bea Patrick
Trish Marks
2/17/17
Sherri Kidwell
Katrina Worford
Brian K Henson
Tara Lennox
Priscilla Shimp
Megan Akins
Sheila Carvell
Alexandra Vindiola
Kayla Hernandez
Alicia Dansby
Brandi Chaney
Tessa Davis
Althea Thomas
Mikayla Oakes
Carla S-Paige Williams
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Dawn Raasch
Susanne Killion
Kassi Krick-King
Melissa Turner Baker
2/18/17
Nikki Hunsaker
Christina Domingue
Geri Rus
Kristen Raia Bowman
Joanie Waterman
Anna Nichols
Brandy Marie Williams
Phyllis Hines
Christina Radcliff
Dean Bruss
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Ashley Nichole Busse
Crystal Young
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Kristina Harris
Cheryl Hall
Lori Capobianco
Heather Marie Stacy
Kristina Harris
Chelcie Malow
2/19/17
Heather Jacques
Lisa David Carr
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Kimberly Snyder
Kathleen Hickman
Jakara Jackson
Allison Frederick
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Juanita Williams-Jones
Jeanine Jones
Paula Rivers
Priscilla Shimp
Cheryl Hall
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Susanne Killion
Katrina Worford
Lisa Back
Jodi Stevens
Wayne Gallas
Jackie Hicks
Jane Peterson
Jennifer Downing
Crystal Hazelwood
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