Summary:
TPA analyzes the situation in Atlanta involving Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old African American man, who was fatally shot dead by an Atlanta Police Department officer in June 2020. He was questioned by the police because he was sleeping in his car, and then he failed a breathalyzer text, managed to grab the taser of the officer handcuffing him, fired it at him, attempted to run, and was shot in the back.
So, the incident starts with Brooks being confronted with the police officer for sleeping in his car and ends with him being shot. TPA contends that the penalty for sleeping one’s car should never be death and the penalty is not commensurate with the crime. Perhaps this a fault of the police training.
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