Brooks every benefit of the doubt, and unfortunately, by his actions, this is what happened.' This is a case in which the officers were willing to give Mr. 'But I would ask them to look at the facts of this case, and this isn’t one of those cases. I understand that the encounters between police and the African-American community at times are very volatile. Skandalakis told a press conference: 'Black lives do matter. I’ve spent my entire career representing black victims of crime. Porter added on Tuesday that he found the cops acted within the realms of Georgia's laws and the policies of the Atlanta police department. He was then reinstated into his position in May 2021.īrosnan was charged with aggravated assault for allegedly standing on Brooks' body after he was shot and for violating his oath of office by not rendering medical aid immediately after he went down. Rolfe, a six-year police veteran, was previously terminated from the Atlanta Police Department and charged with 11 counts over Brooks' death, including felony murder. Officer Rolfe then fired three bullets at Brooks, hitting him twice in the back and ultimately killing the man. Brosnan hit his head during the fall, causing him to have a head concussion.īrooks then took Brosnan’s Taser and was seen aiming it at Rolfe - firing once and missing.
08 blood alcohol content.Īs soon as the officers subsequently tried to detain him, Brooks started 'beating the c**p out of the two officers,' Former Gwinnett County DA Danny Porter said.īoth officers fell to the ground during the incident as Brooks struggled with them.
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The man consented to a portable field alcohol test and it was returned with a result above the legal limit of. Skandalakis said: 'Based 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.'īrosnan was previously charged with aggravated assault and violating his oath, and Rolfe faced 11 counts over Brooks' death, including felony murder.īrooks had fallen asleep at the wheel in a drive-thru line for about 40 minutes - and when the officers attempted to arrest him on a DUI charge, he resisted. Rayshard Brooks, 27, was killed by the shots when he fell asleep in the queue for the drive-thru in a Wendy's in Atlanta Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, made the announcement on Tuesday. The Wendy's that Brooks was shot dead at was burned to the ground by protestors the following day.īut now, the amount of deadly force used by the cops has been deemed 'reasonable' and the case has been dropped. Rolfe and his colleague, Officer Devin Brosnan, were initially called to the restaurant by customers who said a man was asleep at the wheel, blocking the drive-through.īrooks' death sparked fierce protests at the time - having occurred just weeks after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis. The officers were trying to arrest him in the parking lot. Officer Garrett Rolfe fatally shot Brooks, 27, twice in the back as he ran from cops outside the fast food store in South Atlanta in June 2020. Two Atlanta Police Department officers will not face charges in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks, who was killed two years ago outside a Wendy's restaurant, after a prosecutor said 'their deadly force was reasonable.'
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