Officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks is reinstated
By Richard Fausset New York Times,Updated May 5, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Visitors at a makeshift memorial in June 2020 in front of the Wendyâs restaurant in Atlanta where police officers killed Rayshard Brooks.JOSHUA RASHAAD MCFADDEN/NYT
Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta police officer who was fired from his job after fatally shooting a Black man, Rayshard Brooks, in a fast-food parking lot, was reinstated on Wednesday by the cityâs Civil Service Board, which found that Rolfeâs firing violated his due process rights.
Rolfe was terminated one day after the shooting, which came a few weeks after the police killing of another Black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis. The killing of Brooks led to a new round of demonstrations across the United States, including in Atlanta.