- The police have released video footage of the events before the fatal shooting of a Black man by a white police officer in Atlanta on Friday.
- In the footage, police officers attempt to take Rayshard Brooks into custody after he fails a sobriety test.
- A scuffle breaks out, and an officer's body camera falls to the ground. Three shots are then heard.
- The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office ruled on Sunday that Brooks died from "gunshot wounds of the back," which caused "organ injuries and blood loss."
- Brooks' death has provoked a fresh wave of protests against police brutality in the city, with the Wendy's where the incident took place burned to the ground Saturday.
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The police have released body-camera and dashboard-camera footage showing the chain of events leading up to the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks by the police in Atlanta on Friday.
The footage of the incident, which has led to a new wave of anti-racism protests in the city, was obtained by several news organizations on Saturday.
Footage from the police officer Devin Brosnan shows him waking Brooks, 27, who was asleep at the wheel of a vehicle in the drive-thru lane in a Wendy's restaurant, at about 10:30 p.m. Brooks then moved his vehicle to a parking area, and another officer, Garrett Rolfe, arrived.
For half an hour, the officers conducted a sobriety test on Brooks, which he failed, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations.
—Blayne Alexander (@ReporterBlayne) June 14, 2020An officer ultimately told Brooks, "I think you've had too much to drink to be driving," and attempted to place him in handcuffs.
The situation then rapidly escalated.
About 43 minutes into the footage, a struggle broke out between Brooks and the officers trying to cuff him.
The officers told Brooks to "stop fighting" and apparently tried to subdue him with a Taser, shouting, "You're going to get Tased." Then an officer shouted, "Hands off the Taser." At this point the body camera appeared to fall to the ground and stayed pointed up at the night sky.
One officer yelled, "He's got my f---ing Taser!"
An officer was then seen drawing his weapon, and three gunshots were heard. The actual shooting was not shown in the police footage.
Bystanders were then apparently heard remonstrating with the police officers.
The dashcam footage showed the officers trying to cuff Brooks, and struggling on the ground with him, before he escaped and ran away.
—Charlie Gile (@CharlieGileNBC) June 14, 2020The local network WXIA-TV said Rolfe's body camera was the one that fell to the ground during the scuffle.
Security-camera footage from the Wendy's restaurant released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations showed Brooks running from the police and then falling down. The police say he pointed a Taser at an officer pursuing him.
—Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) June 13, 2020Brooks was rushed to an Atlanta hospital, where he died of his injuries. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office ruled on Sunday that Brooks died from "gunshot wounds of the back," which caused "organ injuries and blood loss."
Atlanta's police chief, Erika Shields, resigned following the shooting.
On Saturday, the Wendy's where the shooting took place was burned to the ground as demonstrators took to the streets. Authorities on Sunday announced a $10,000 reward for information that could help find the arsonists responsible.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has said she did not believe the shooting "was a justified use of deadly force."
Rolfe, one of the officers involved in the incident, has been fired, while the other officer, Brosnan, has been placed on administrative leave.
Brooks' killing comes in the midst of the most widespread anti-racism protests in generations following the killing of George Floyd, who died following an arrest in Minneapolis in May.
On Sunday, L. Chris Stewart, an attorney for the Brooks family, said the officer responsible for the killing should be charged with "an unjustified use of deadly force, which equals murder," the Associated Press reported.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said in a statement on Sunday that he hoped a decision about whether to bring charges against the officers would be announced midweek.
Rosie Perper contributed to this report.
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