As the case of a white Minnesota police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd begins, it raises parallels to a similar case upcoming in Atlanta.
This week, the judge overseeing former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial reinstated a third-degree murder charge in the case. Chauvin, who is white, is accused of killing George Floyd, a Black man, last May. The move was a win for prosecutors seeking another pathway to conviction.
Atlanta police officers put on riot gear outside the burning Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe on Saturday, June 13, 2020. (Lily Oppenheimer/WABE)
surgeries in the hospital. the driver is hospitalized as well. he is expected to make a full recovery. and will now face 15 years in prison and deportation. lesli and anita? all right, a big question. how has he been able to stay in the country this long with the top dui senses? reporter: certainly, we asked them about that. and you can tell from that piece that he expressed a lot of frustration and says in this case, particularly the deportation process moves very slowly, but we can also tell you that because he used a lot of aliases, he was able to get around the system in some way. we ll have more on his status and what happens now coming up new at 6:00. all right, thank you so much for that. in the meantime, the attorney general says that law enforcement in the commonwealth can ask about immigration status when they stop people or arrest them. that is just like under a controversial new immigration law in arizona. and the official legal opinion was written in resp