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.
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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.”