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ATLANTA A lawyer for Police Officer Garrett Rolfe said Wednesday that the City of Atlanta’s Civil Service Board’s decision to reinstate his client was the right move, sending the message that “due process matters.”Rolfe was terminated nearly immediately following the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks last summer. The Civil Board decided Tuesday that the officer was indeed denied his right to due process.“We are very excited that the Civil Board says that due process matters,” attorney Lance LoRusso said in a statement, according to CNN.LoRusso added that his client’s “reinstatement will likely take some time, but he intended to get his client back to work.”
Attorney: College student pulled from car stunned by Atlanta officers reinstatement
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Investigator Mark Gardner and Inv. Ivory Streeter.
ATLANTA - The attorney of one of two Atlanta college students pulled from a car in downtown Atlanta during protests over the death of Georgia Floyd says they were stunned and saddened to learn that the termination of two officers involved in the arrests had been reversed.
Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner were fired the day after they were seen on live television broadcast pulling a Spelman College student and Morehouse College student from a car in downtown Atlanta on May 30. The incident happened during the second night of protests over the death of George Floyd and the first night Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms implemented an executive order calling for a 9 p.m. citywide curfew.
Atlanta Civil Service Board reverse police officers terminations
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Investigator Mark Gardner and Inv. Ivory Streeter.
ATLANTA - The City of Atlanta Civil Service Board reversed the terminations of two officers who were fired in May for the arrest of two college students in Downtown Atlanta for violating a citywide curfew.
Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner were fired the day after they were seen on live television broadcast pulling a Spelman College student and Morehouse College student from a car in downtown Atlanta on May 30. The incident happened during the second night of protests over the death of George Floyd and the first night Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms implemented an executive order calling for a 9 p.m. citywide curfew.