Rayshard Brooks was shot late Friday by a police officer outside a Wendy’s restaurant on the city’s southside.
Brooks, an African-American, was shot in the back and killed at a downtown Wendy’s restaurant by an Atlanta police officer, who is white. APD was called to the scene to check on Brooks, who had fallen asleep in his car.
He was shot as he tried to flee with a taser in hand.
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Brooks was a 27-year-old Atlanta father of three daughters. He was planning to pick up his 8-year-old daughter on Saturday and take her skating to celebrate her birthday.
Brooks’s three daughters are 1, 2 and 8 years old, according to family attorneys. He also has a 13-year-old stepson, they said.
He worked at a Mexican restaurant, according to family attorneys.
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Officers were called to the restaurant after receiving a complaint about a man asleep in his vehicle, which forced other customers to go around his car to get their food at the window. Brooks, was given a field sobriety test, which he reportedly failed, according to the GBI.
After failing the test, the officers attempted to place the male subject into custody,” GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles said. “During the arrest, the male subject resisted and a struggle ensued. The officer deployed a Taser.”
According to police, Brooks managed to take the Taser away from the officer before being shot. He was taken to the hospital where he later died, Miles said.
Cellphone video captured by a Wendy's customer appears to show two officers struggling with Brooks in the parking lot. He appeared to be running away from them when he was fatally shot.
The shooting further inflamed tensions over police use of force and racial injustice that have rocked Atlanta and cities across the nation since the Memorial Day death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
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By nightfall, the Wendy’s was in flames and demonstrators had shut down Atlanta’s busy Downtown Connector.
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