Rayshard Brooks
On the evening of June 12, 2020, Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black American man, was shot and killed by an Atlanta Police Department officer, Garrett Rolfe, following a fight and escape after a complaint about Brooks asleep in a car blocking a Wendy's drive-through lane.
Video of the incident was widely broadcast and streamed on the internet. Atlanta Chief of Police Erika Shields resigned the next day, saying she wanted to help rebuild trust in the community. Protesters later burned down the Wendy's. On June 15, Mayor Keisha Lance ordered the Atlanta Police Department overhaul its use-of-force policies.
On June 17, Rolfe was charged with felony murder and ten other charges
Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American resident of Atlanta who worked at a restaurant. He had been married for eight years and had three daughters and a stepson. In February 2020, he gave an interview where he discussed his mental struggles with incarceration, and his financial problems with probation and felony disenfranchisement in the United States afterward.
Garrett Rolfe had been with the police department since 2013.[citation needed] On January 9 he trained on the use of deadly force at the DeKalb County police academy, and on April 24 took a nine-hour course on de-escalation options Devin Brosnan had been with the police department since 2018.
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