Georgia drivers could refuse to sign traffic tickets and not be arrested under bill
Read full article: Georgia drivers could refuse to sign traffic tickets and not be arrested under billGeorgia lawmakers are seeking to change state law to say that officers don’t have to arrest people who refuse to sign traffic tickets.
Police video from 'Cop City' operation doesn't show shooting
Read full article: Police video from 'Cop City' operation doesn't show shootingNewly released Atlanta police body camera video shows officers clearing tents from the site of a planned public safety training center and then reacting after they heard the barrage of gunfire that left an environmental activist dead and a state trooper injured.
Officers won’t face any charges in Rayshard Brooks shooting
Read full article: Officers won’t face any charges in Rayshard Brooks shootingA specially appointed prosecutor said he will not pursue charges against the two white Atlanta police officers who clashed with Rayshard Brooks during a June 2020 encounter that ended with the 27-year-old Black man’s fatal shooting.
'Black Panther' director mistaken for bank robber in Atlanta
Read full article: 'Black Panther' director mistaken for bank robber in AtlantaPolice said movie director Ryan Coogler was briefly handcuffed by Atlanta police after a bank teller mistook him for a robber when he passed her a note while trying to withdraw a large amount of cash from his account.
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Atlanta police make arrest in actor's shooting death
Read full article: Atlanta police make arrest in actor's shooting deathIn this Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, photo made from video and released by the Atlanta Police Department, Antonio Demetrice Rhynes surrenders to an APD drone with officers outside his apartment in Atlanta. Atlanta police announced Friday that they have arrested Rhynes on a felony murder charge for the shooting death of actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd. (Atlanta Police Department via AP)ATLANTA – Atlanta police announced Friday that they have made an arrest in the shooting death of actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd. It wasn't immediately clear whether he had an attorney who could comment on his arrest. In drone footage of the arrest released by Atlanta police, the camera enters a second-floor apartment with a damaged front door.
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AMBER Alert discontinued for 2 missing girls from Atlanta, Texas
Read full article: AMBER Alert discontinued for 2 missing girls from Atlanta, TexasATLANTA, Texas UPDATE: An AMBER Alert issued for a 1-year-old and an 11-year-old girl out of Atlanta, Texas has been discontinued. ---(Original Story)The Atlanta (Texas) Police Department is searching for a 1-year-old girl and an 11-year-old girl who were reported missing on Monday. Authorities are looking for 1-year-old Tru Speratos and 11-year-old Alex Arwood, who were last seen on the 300 block of Tipton Street in Atlanta in a Gold 2007 Honda Odyssey with a Texas license plate number MBD2390. Tru has blonde hair and blue eyes and was last seen wearing a multi-colored onesie and tutu, while Alex is 4 feet, 9 inches tall with sandy hair, blue eyes and was last seen wearing a black tank top and black shorts, authorities said. Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call the Atlanta Police Department at 903-796-7973.
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Former Atlanta officer who shot Rayshard Brooks seeks bail
Read full article: Former Atlanta officer who shot Rayshard Brooks seeks bailFILE - This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe, left, in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, late Friday, June 12, 2020, in Atlanta. Rolfe, who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in the back after the fleeing man pointed a stun gun in his direction, was charged with felony murder and 10 other charges, announced Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Rolfe was fired after the shooting. (Atlanta Police Department via AP)
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Prosecutor: Officer kicked Rayshard Brooks after shooting
Read full article: Prosecutor: Officer kicked Rayshard Brooks after shootingThis combination of photos provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Officer Garrett Rolfe, left and Officer Devin Brosnan. I got him! Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard quoted Officer Garrett Rolfe as saying. Rolfe shot Brooks after the 27-year-old black man grabbed a Taser and ran, firing it from too far away to reach the white officer, the prosecutor said. When Mr. Brooks turned and pointed an object at Officer Rolfe, any officer would have reasonably believed that he intended to disarm, disable or seriously injure him, the lawyers said in a statement. The prosecutor said Brooks never presented himself as a threat during a more than 40-minute interaction with officers before the shooting.
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Could the police shooting in Atlanta have been prevented?
Read full article: Could the police shooting in Atlanta have been prevented?This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, late Friday, June 12, 2020, in Atlanta. Rolfe has been fired following the fatal shooting of Brooks and a second officer has been placed on administrative duty. (Atlanta Police Department via AP)It started off as routine: a man asleep in his car in a fast-food drive-thru. But it rapidly spun out of control when Atlanta police tried to handcuff and arrest Rayshard Brooks for being intoxicated. From his perspective, he said, the officer who killed Brooks was trying to run for cover in the parking lot and evade Brooks.
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Value of police body cameras limited by lack of transparency
Read full article: Value of police body cameras limited by lack of transparencyThe video shows an officer confronting Scott and then tackling him after he takes off running. The court ordered the nation's largest police department adopt body cameras. In the last five years, a Justice Department program awarded 420 grants worth nearly $83 million to help agencies pay for body cameras, according to a spokeswoman. Often, however, the videos that show the public grim realities of policing don't come from body cameras at all. Both officers body cameras were knocked to the ground in the ensuing struggle over a Taser.
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Could this latest police shooting have been prevented?
Read full article: Could this latest police shooting have been prevented?Rolfe has been fired following the fatal shooting of Brooks and a second officer has been placed on administrative duty. Also, it was a crowded parking lot, making it risky for an officer to fire his gun. Police experts reject that idea, saying that officers facing what they believe is a deadly threat are trained to stop it cold, which usually means shooting at a person's torso. From his perspective, he said, the officer who killed Brooks was trying to run for cover in the parking lot and evade Brooks. Brooks was shot because at that moment he presented a deadly threat to those officers, Davis said.
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6 Atlanta officers charged after students pulled from car
Read full article: 6 Atlanta officers charged after students pulled from carTwo of the officers were fired Sunday after Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and police Chief Erika Shields determined they had used excessive force. Howard said Young was charged with attempting to elude the officers, and the mayor has said she's ordering his charges dropped. An officer uses a Taser on Pilgrim as shes trying to get out of the car and then officers pull her out. He's also charged with criminal damage for repeatedly hitting and damaging the driver's side window of the car, a warrant says. All of the charged officers are black except for Claud, who's white.