Following yet another Black man, Rayshard Brooks, killed at the hands of police on Friday June 12 in Atlanta, crowds of protestors, including Atlanta Hawks head coach Lloyd Pierce, are expected to march with the NAACP on Monday (June 15).
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Pierce shared his thoughts with one word on Twitter in response to the senseless killing of Brooks, “Disgraceful” he said replying to Stacey Abrams tweet of the incident.
“We are asking and demanding urgent action so that we can move forward as a city, community and as a state to ensure that no other family has to go through what Mr. Brooks family has to go through,” said Rev. James “Major” Woodall, state president of the Georgia NAACP.
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Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields resigned on Saturday (June 13); however, the NAACP is demanding that she be entirely removed from the Atlanta Police Department.
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Brooks was killed on Friday night, after police responded to a call about a man sleeping in a parked vehicle in a Wendy's drive-through lane in Atlanta, causing other customers to drive around it, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.
