Trump defends officer who shot Rayshard Brooks as police call in sick

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump defends officer who shot Rayshard Brooks as police call in sick

• Trump told Hannity: ‘You can’t resist a police officer like that’
• Significant number of Atlanta officers did not show up for work

Adam Gabbatt in New York
@adamgabbatt
Published on Thu 18 Jun 2020 19.16 BST

Donald Trump has defended the police officer who shot dead Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, as a number of officers called in sick after their colleague was charged with murder.

Garrett Rolfe, a white officer, shot Brooks, who is black, twice in the back as Brooks pointed a police Taser stun gun in his direction while running away. Rolfe faces 11 charges over the killing.

A significant number of officers did not show up for work on Wednesday night, the city’s police department said. Atlanta’s mayor suggested the city may have to call in officers from other jurisdictions.

Brooks’s death has prompted protests in the city and elsewhere as it emerged that Brooks, 27, was 18ft from Rolfe, and running away, when he pointed the Taser – which prosecutors say Rolfe knew was not functional – before being shot.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/rayshard-brooks-garrett-rolfe-trump-atlanta-police

[onecaliberal]

1. Fire them all.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. He wants his sycophants to start shooting us so he can do away with election

[tulipsandroses]

3. Of course he did! The Georgia Penal Code does not say resisting arrest is punishable by death.

What the law does say, police cannot shoot someone in the back running away from them.

[Thekaspervote]

4. The American populous overwhelmingly is for BLM and police reform

Just like the stunt in front of St John’s church it will bring him instant poll drop

[Nevilledog]

5. That's bullshit reporting. The stun gun was spent. Could not be shot.