On Sunday morning, Democratic lawmakers continued to call for justice for Rayshard Brooks, the black man shot and killed by police in Atlanta, as Republicans argued that it was too soon to draw conclu
sions about whether police had been justified in using deadly force.Stacey Abrams, who ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, said protesters were right to demand accountability, and should continue to push for change until meaningful reforms are made.
“There’s a legitimacy to this anger. There’s a legitimacy to this outrage. A man was murdered because he was asleep in a drive-through and we know that this is not an isolated occurrence,” she said on ABC’s This Week., after two police officers responded to a complaint about a man parked and asleep in a Wendy’s drive-through. The officers performed a sobriety test on the man, later identified as Brooks.
The Atlanta Police Department has released footage of the shooting, and identified the two officers involved. The department has fired the officer who shot his gun, and pulled the other off street patrols. Atlanta police chief Erika Shields resigned Saturday. But outrage continues to grow. Protesters gathered in front of the Wendy’s where the shooting took place on Saturday, and by nightfall it was in flames.South Carolina Republican Sen.
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