As days of continued unrest come and go throughout the nation and the world stemming from the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, Atlanta experienced a killing of yet another Black man at the hand of a white police officer.
Angry crowds gathered in the parking lot at Wendy’s fast food store on University Avenue in Southwest Atlanta on Saturday, June 13, 2020 to protest the police killing of Rayshard Brooks and to demand justice for what they called, “another senseless killing.”
Brooks was killed on Friday night, June 12, 2020 after the police received a call saying that he was asleep in his car in the drive-thru lane at the restaurant, causing other customers to drive around him.
Atlanta Police officer Garrette Rolfe shot Brooks after an altercation took place while the officers were attempting to handcuff him.
This unrest, after Atlanta’s police chief Erika Shields stepped down and the Atlanta Mayor called for the officer who shot Brooks to be fired.
