{"id":1748308,"date":"2022-11-22T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T19:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748308"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T19:47:56","slug":"atlanta-agrees-to-pay-family-of-rayshard-brooks-who-fired-taser-at-officer-1m-after-deadly-police-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atlanta-agrees-to-pay-family-of-rayshard-brooks-who-fired-taser-at-officer-1m-after-deadly-police-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Agrees To Pay Family Of Rayshard Brooks, Who Fired Taser At Officer, $1M After Deadly Police Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fatlanta-agrees-to-pay-family-of-rayshard-brooks-who-fired-taser-at-officer-1m-after-deadly-police-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748308&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Atlanta city officials unanimously voted Monday to pay $1 million to the family of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot by police after failing a field sobriety test and resisting arrest in June 2020 outside a Wendy\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmembers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mtXgEUNbTbs\">voted<\/a> 15-0 nearly three months after a specially appointed prosecutor said he would not pursue charges against the two Atlanta police officers who clashed with Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis grieving family has been through so much during this process,\u201d attorneys representing Brooks\u2019 family said in a statement obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/atlanta-pay-1m-rayshard-brooks-family-deadly-police-shooting-rcna58295\">NBC<\/a>. \u201cAlthough the children of Mr. Brooks have lost their father, settling the case will undoubtedly assist them with future plans as they come of age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks\u2019 death came amid ongoing violent riots and protests across the United States over the death of George Floyd, who was killed a few weeks before Brooks by Minneapolis police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys\u2019 Council of Georgia, said Officer Garrett Rolfe, who shot Brooks twice in the back, and Officer Devin Bronson, of the Atlanta Police Department, faced a \u201cdynamic situation\u201d that was \u201cquickly evolving.\u201d Such factors prompted the special prosecutor to drop the charges against the officers.<\/p>\n<p>On June 12, 2020, Rolfe and Brosnan responded to a call about a man who fell asleep at the wheel while waiting in the drive-thru lane of a Wendy\u2019s restaurant in South Atlanta. The officers approached Brooks and spoke to him for nearly 40 minutes before concluding that the 27-year-old man had imbibed too much alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Patrol car and body-cam footage from the officers showed Brooks admitting that he consumed alcohol before his encounter with law enforcement. He would later consent to a portable field alcohol test that came back above the legal limit of .08 blood alcohol content. As soon as the officers tried to detain Brooks, he resisted arrest and wrestled his way out of the officers\u2019 control, who both fell to the ground during the incident, resulting in Brosnan\u2019s concussion.<\/p>\n<p>While the officers struggled to apprehend Brooks, he snatched Brosnan\u2019s Taser and attempted to fire at Rolfe while fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Rolfe fired three bullets at Brooks and ultimately killed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the facts and circumstances confronting Officer Rolfe and Officer Brosnan in this case, it is my conclusion the use of deadly force was objectively reasonable and that they did not act with criminal intent,\u201d Skandalakis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11139069\/Two-Atlanta-police-officers-NOT-face-charges-fatal-shooting-Rayshard-Brooks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, per Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Skandalakis called it \u201ca peaceful encounter that all of a sudden becomes a violent encounter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just 24 hours after the two Atlanta policemen killed Brooks, rioters burned down Wendy\u2019s restaurant where the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack lives do matter,\u201d Skandalakis said during a press conference, according to Daily Mail. \u201cI\u2019ve spent my entire career representing black victims of crime. I understand that the encounters between police and the African American community at times are very volatile. But I would ask them to look at the facts of this case, and this isn\u2019t one of those cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a case in which the officers were willing to give Mr. Brooks every benefit of the doubt, and unfortunately, by his actions, this is what happened,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta city officials unanimously voted Monday to pay $1 million to the family of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot by police after failing a field sobriety test and resisting arrest in June 2020 outside a Wendy\u2019s restaurant. 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