Two Black men traveling from Memphis to Atlanta to produce hip hop music say that instead of dropping beats, they witnessed the death of Rayshard Brooks at the hands of a police officer.
“We weren’t in the lot three minutes before it occurred,” said Michael Perkins, who was with his friend Melvin Evans in the drive-thru line at the Wendy’s restaurant where Brooks was confronted by police.
Perkins and Evans said at a Thursday (June 18) press conference that they were in Atlanta to shoot a music video with rapper Pastor Troy and had just arrived in town.
Watch Michael Perkins and Melvin Evans speak about their encounter below
Brooks, 27, was killed June 12 when he grappled with former Atlanta cop Garrett Rolfe and officer Devin Brosnan, who had detained him after a Wendy’s worker called 911 when he had passed out in the drive-thru line from drinking.
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Evans said that he took video of the incident after they left the lot.
