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PROTESTS OF POLICE VIOLENCE Atlanta police chief resigns after man is shot at restaurant

ATlAnTA from A1 ers on Juneteenth — June 19, a commemoration of the end of slavery. “Boycott the dollar,” protesters chanted. “Black dollars matter.” Activists and Democratic law- makers have called on the city to hold the police officer who shot Brooks accountable. Stacey Abrams, who ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, tweeted that Brooks’s killing “demands we se- verely restrict the use of deadly force.” “Yes, investigations must be called for — but so too should accountability,” Abrams wrote. “Sleeping in a drive-thru must not end in death.” The Atlanta Police Department was dispatched friday night to a Wendy’s on a complaint about a man parked and asleep in the drive-through, according to a pre- liminary report by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Atlanta police performed a sobriety test on the man, later identified as Brooks. When Brooks failed the test, officers attempted to put him in custody. The response escalat- ed when Brooks grabbed an offi- cer’s stun gun. According to a Wendy’s sur- veillance video released by the GBI o n Saturday afternoon, Brooks ran from the officers. In the video, the officer is seen chasing Brooks. After running the equivalent of six or seven parking spots, Brooks turns back toward the officer and appears to point the stun gun at him, at which point the officer draws a weapon from his holster and fires at Brooks. Brooks falls to the ground as other cars in the lot pull aside, and both officers stand elijAh nouvelAGe/reuters over him. An ambulance later People gather in Atlanta on Saturday to protest police violence and racism. The demonstrations came after Friday’s fatal police shooting of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks after arrives and takes Brooks away. a DUI test. As video footage of the incident circulated, politicians and civil rights activists called for lasting police reform to protect black Americans. Brooks was taken to a hospital, where he died after surgery. Saturday night. prising many of the residents. The video does not appear to Julián Castro, the former may- “You have to go where they show Brooks’s initial struggle or of San Antonio who served as live,” said Sterling, 27, a black with the officers; a cellphone housing secretary under Presi- protester who declined to give his video posted to Twitter on friday dent Barack obama and ran for last name. night purportedly showed president last year, asked why A group of teenagers in mason, Brooks’s clash with two police armed cops should “be the first ohio, organized a march of about officers in the parking lot. responders to a call for a man 600 people in the Cincinnati sub- GBI director Vic reynolds said SLEEPING IN HIS CAr?” rep. urb — chanting “black lives mat- he was releasing the footage in an Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) tweeted that ter” in the overwhelmingly white effort to be transparent. reynolds after watching footage of the town. also said agents have been told to Atlanta shooting, “there is mariah Norman, a 17-year-old expedite the investigation. “We enough probable cause to arrest mason High School junior who want everyone to see what we the police officer for murdering a helped organize the event, said have seen in this case,” reynolds Black civilian running away from the republican-leaning town is said. him.” “ready to join the fight” for racial Bottoms said it was Shields’s “The killing of Black Ameri- equality. decision to step down, and that cans by government has got to “It’s like the town has woken she will remain employed by the stop,” Lieu wrote. up,” she said. city in an undetermined role. In a Protesters gathered in Atlanta The massive protests over statement, Shields wrote “it is on Saturday to decry Brooks’s floyd’s death and quickly shifting time for the city to move forward death, echoing gatherings over public opinion about racism and and build trust between law en- the killing of George floyd in policing have already moved po- forcement and the communities minnesota that continued in cit- litical leaders to begin enacting they serve.” ies around the country and in policy changes. According to the Atlanta Jour- Europe. The minneapolis City Council nal-Constitution, Brooks’s death In cities including New York, unanimously passed a resolution marks the 48th officer-involved Chicago, Paris and Zurich, dem- friday aimed at transforming its shooting the GBI has been asked onstrators marched through approach to public safety, part of to investigate in 2020. Earlier this streets and demanded an end to a sweeping tide of police policy month, a judge in Glynn County, racial injustice and police brutali- revisions being embraced by state Ga., ruled that three white men Ben GrAy/AssociAteD Press ty. The diversity, breadth and and local leaders from New York accused in the killing of Ahmaud Protesters gather Saturday at the Wendy’s restaurant where Brooks was fatally shot the night before. endurance of the protests since to Seattle. Arbery, a 25-year-old black jog- They chanted, “Say his name! Rayshard Brooks!” and “Boycott the dollar! Black dollars matter!” floyd’s death on may 25 offer an New York Gov. Andrew m. Cuo- ger, in february will stand trial indication of the growing power mo (D) signed into law new police for murder. veillance video from surrounding of the Black Lives matter move- accountability measures, includ- William “roddie” Bryan, who buildings. ment. ing one that would allow officers’ captured Arbery’s death on a “This is not the first time a In Palmdale, Calif., where a disciplinary records to be dis- cellphone, told investigators that black man has been killed for 24-year-old black man was found closed. The package also included Travis mcmichael uttered a racial sleeping,” the rev. James Wood- hanging from a tree last week, a ban on chokeholds. slur before police arrived, accord- all, state president of the Georgia protesters gathered Saturday to “Police reform is long overdue,” ing to testimony by a GBI agent. NAACP, said on a call with report- demand answers from local au- Cuomo said friday during the once the GBI completes its ers. “While Atlanta is often called thorities. The Los Angeles County signing ceremony. independent investigation, the ‘the Black mecca,’ the Atlanta Sheriff’s Department said an ini- In Iowa, the front page of case will be turned over to the Police Department has a contin- tial investigation indicated the Saturday’s Des moines register fulton County District Attorney’s ued history of antagonizing our man, robert fuller, committed newspaper featured a picture of office for review. on Saturday, communities.” suicide — a conclusion rejected Gov. Kim reynolds (r) signing the office said it had already Woodall said the Georgia by his family. police reform legislation that launched “an intense, indepen- NAACP has hired a private inves- The third weekend of protests bans most chokeholds and in- dent investigation of the inci- tigator and that a news confer- in Chicago turned to a side of the creases accountability. Surround- dent” and that officials were also ence would take place Tuesday city that rarely gets people ing her were black lawmakers on the scene after the shooting. morning. marching in the street: Jefferson with their fists raised in the air. According to local outlet 11 Alive As video footage circulated Park, a neighborhood located on [email protected] News, the two officers involved in more widely on Saturday, politi- the far northwest side of the city the shooting have been removed cians and civil rights activists known primarily as a bedroom haisten Willis in Atlanta; tarkor Zehn from duty pending the outcome called for lasting police reform to community populated by many in shoreview, minn.; mark Guarino in of the investigation. protect black Americans. Those police, firefighters and blue collar chicago; miranda Green in Palmdale, on Saturday, the Georgia calls continued even after Bot- DAviD GolDmAn/AssociAteD Press workers. Hundreds of demon- calif.; and toluse olorunnipa in NAACP called for the release of toms announced Shields’s resig- Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields resigned Saturday. “It is time for strators showed up with signs Washington, D.c., contributed to this body camera footage and all sur- nation as protests continued into the city to move forward,” Shields said in a statement. Saturday for the first time, sur- report.

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