`Stop fighting!’ Atlanta sobriety test quickly turned deadly
Associated PressATLANTA — One minute, Rayshard Brooks was chatting cooperatively with Atlanta police, saying he’d had a couple of drinks to celebrate his daughter’s birthday and agreeing to a breath test. “Put your hands behind your back.” The video shows each officer take hold of one of Brooks’ wrists as Rolfe tries to handcuff him. “.He definitely did shoot it at me at least once.” GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles said Sunday she could not confirm whether Brooks fired the Taser. Some public officials questioned whether shooting of Brooks was as clearly an abuse as Floyd’s death after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee to his neck. “The question is when the suspect turned to fire the Taser, what should the officer have done?” U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, said on CBS’ “Face The Nation.” Scott, the Senate’s only black Republican, said Brooks’s death “is certainly a far less clear one than the ones that we saw with George Floyd and several other ones.” Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic lawmaker who gained national prominence while running for governor in 2018, said “there’s a legitimacy to this outrage” over Brooks’ death.
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