A third bullet hits this Chevrolet Trailblazer, which had three passengers in it. Officer Brosnan appears to be unsure whether he should let Mr. Brooks sleep in the car or should take further action. Law enforcement officers, including those from the Georgia State Patrol, arrived in riot gear and shields as people milled about nearby streets. Warning: This footage is disturbing. The officers are heard saying, "Stop fighting," "Hands off the Taser," and "Got my f---ing Taser," before three gunshots ring out. Officer Rolfe checks whether Mr. Brooks is armed. By Malachy Browne, Christina Kelso and Barbara Marcolini, [Here’s what you need to know about the death of Rayshard Brooks.]. The Georgia NAACP had called for Bottoms to relieve Shields of duty. Officer Rolfe performs a sobriety test on Mr. Brooks over the next seven minutes. We hear Rolfe using his Taser as he chases Brooks. Officer Brosnan arrives and wakes Mr. Brooks. A crowd of people gathered at the scene to peacefully protest the shooting on Saturday. ", "Out of a deep and abiding love for this City and this department, I offered to step aside as police chief," she said in a statement. Brosnan continues to stand by. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Rich has been a Fool since 1998 and writing for the site since 2004. The two officers were part of the fallout that swept the police department in the aftermath of Brooks' death as the police chief resigned earlier Saturday. Once they’re fired twice, they must be reloaded. It’s 10:41 p.m., eight minutes after the 911 call when Officer Devin Brosnan arrives at Wendy’s. "I just don’t want to be in violation of anybody.". Reynolds said a witness was able to corroborate the information. This image, also provided by the Fulton County D.A., shows that moment more clearly. Mr. Brooks asks the officers if he can lock his car up under their supervision and walk to his sister’s house, which he says is a short distance away. 11:04 p.m. A second officer was placed on administrative leave after the chief of police resigned earlier Saturday. "We’re not asking for protesters not to go out and protest," he said. Rolfe has Brooks undergo the horizontal gaze nystagmus test in which the officer focuses on the suspect's eyes as they follow his finger. Both officers’ body cameras fall to the ground. 10:42 p.m. The Times examined witness videos, security footage, police body-cam and dash-cam videos. Wendyâs favourite time for sewing and darning was after they had all gone to bed. Officer Rolfe arrives and consults with Officer Brosnan. Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. said in a statement Saturday that the GBI will turn over its findings to his department, but his office has already launched its own "intense, independent investigation of the matter. Officer Rolfe asks Mr. Brooks to take a breath test for alcohol. ... Machine Gun Kelly visits drummer in the hospital after attack. Lawyers for Brooks' family said he was the father of three daughters and a stepson and worked in a tortilleria. The Atlanta Police Department said early Sunday that an officer had been fired over the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks, 27, at a Wendyâs restaurant. Brooks tells officers he parked at the Wendy's, went drinking with a friend who had picked him up and was dropped off there because he was hungry. "Of extreme concern in the murder of Rayshard Brooks is the fact that he was shot in the back multiple times while fleeing," said attorneys L. Chris Stewart and Justin Miller, who are representing the Brooks family, in a statement. Now #RayshardBrooks is dead. Earlier in the evening, demonstrators blocked a freeway near the Wendy's. [gunshots] Two bullets hit Brooks in the back, one piercing his heart. One officer has been fired and another placed on administrative duty. But he moves to handcuff Brooks swiftly and without clearly telling him he’s under arrest. We reviewed police records, and procedures, and statements made by the officers involved. Officer Rolfe discards the Taser he is carrying, draws his handgun and fires it three times at Mr. Brooks as he is running away. "They went and picked up their shell casings," he said. An officer off-camera explains that he responded to reports of a man asleep at the wheel in the Wendy's drive-thru and that he asked the suspect to move his car, which he did. This and other evidence will be scrutinized in what has now become a homicide investigation. Just pull in somewhere and take a n … All right, you good?” Mr. Brooks parks in a nearby car space. The questioning returns, and Brooks can't seem to remember if he had margaritas or daiquiris, nor how many. He is not. Rolfe has once been reprimanded for firing his service weapon, police records show. Dennis Romero writes for NBC News and is based in Los Angeles. On Friday night, June 12, an employee at a Wendy’s restaurant in South Atlanta calls 911. When Rolfe now asks Brooks if he’ll take a breathalyzer test, Brooks hesitates at first. They even shared a few laughs. Brooks grabs the Taser. Another officer on the scene, Devin Brosnan, who has been with the department for less than two years, was placed on administrative duty. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the resignation of Chief Erika Shields, a member of the Atlanta Police Department for more than two decades, and said Assistant Chief Rodney Bryant would serve as interim chief until a permanent leader was hired. Bystanders denounce the shooting to a third police officer who is at the scene. After 20 years of patrolling the mean streets of suburbia, he hung up his badge and gun to take up a pen full time. Mr. Brooks falls to the ground. Rolfe begins to question Brooks, who is confused about where he is. He said he planned to reunite with the friend at a hotel. "We need to keep pushing.". “During the course of that confrontation, Mr. Brooks was able to secure from one of the Atlanta officers, his Taser," said Vic Reynolds, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. “That was it.” But then in just 45 seconds, one of the officers fatally shoots Mr. Brooks as he is running away. It goes on for an inordinate amount of time as Rolfe moves his finger quite slowly from side to side and repeats the motion multiple times. Why did Brooks want to resolve his situation without being arrested? Eight minutes later, Mr. Brooks is taken to a hospital, where he dies after surgery. He takes charge of the investigation. Others said police are expected to show zero tolerance with drunken driving. The officers are courteous. The announcement came as protests in Atlanta grew Saturday night with demonstrators blocking a freeway while the Wendy's burned for more than an hour before firefighters extinguished the flames. Rolfe shouts at Brooks … ... and appears to kick him on the ground. Stewart said Brooks' daughters are 1, 2 and 8 years old. Neither officer appears to provide medical assistance to Mr. Brooks. The incident was captured on video and shows Brooks appearing to run from the officers with the Taser in his hand, Reynolds said. Officer Rolfe questions Mr. Brooks, who says he didn’t drive to Wendy’s but was dropped off. This is the 48th officer-involved shooting in 2020 that the GBI has been asked to investigate, the agency told NBC News. Rolfe's DUI interview and field sobriety testing is laborious and lasts more than 25 minutes as he asks the same questions over and over. Then, as she expressed it, she had a breathing time for herself; and she occupied it in making new things for them, and putting double pieces on the knees, for they were all most frightfully hard on their knees. Rayshard Brooks, 27, was fatally shot by police at a Wendy's drive-thru after officials said he resisted arrest and stole an officer's Taser. After running a short distance, Brooks "turns around and it appears to the eye that he points the Taser at the Atlanta officer," the director said. Mr. Brooks is compliant and friendly with the officers throughout this time. Authorities said Brooks failed a field sobriety test administered at the Wendy's and that he had been under investigation by Atlanta police for a suspected DUI in the incident. Mr. Rolfe.” He seizes a Taser from Officer Brosnan, stands up and punches Officer Rolfe. The two officers have been at the scene for 27 minutes. He raps on Brooks’s car window and wakes him up. Garrett Rolfe, a six-year veteran of the Atlanta Police Department, was fired, and a second officer, Devin Brosnan, a nearly two-year veteran, was placed on administrative leave for their involvement in the death of Rayshard Brooks, 27, said department spokesman Carlos Campos. Citing witnesses, Stewart said police did not immediately aid Brooks. 11:30 p.m. An ambulance arrives. Anna Ayala (born December 22, 1965) is an American woman who brought a fraudulent tort lawsuit against a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, California.Ayalaâs claims cost the chain more than US$21 million in lost revenue. The officer, Garrett Rolfe, who had worked with the department since 2013, fired his handgun three times while he was chasing Mr. Brooks, who the authorities said had seized a Taser from an officer and fired it as he ran. As Rolfe draws his Taser, Brooks fires a dart, hitting Brosnan’s arm. He mentioned how revenue should increase to 10% by the end of 2022. That’s the case law here.". Some policing experts told us he could have written a citation and drove Brooks home. The description of a gunshot doesn’t square with what Rolfe told investigating police at the scene. This photo from the Fulton County District Attorney shows the bullet hole. The Times analyzed eyewitness videos, police bodycam footage and security camera footage of the events to determine what happened in the minutes preceding Mr. Brooks’s death. Officer Rolfe gives chase, and continues to try to stun Mr. Brooks. ", "Lastly, our thoughts and our sympathies are extended to the family of Rayshard Brooks as we must not forget that this investigation is centered upon a loss of life.". Stewart — an Atlanta-based civil rights attorney and member of the legal team representing the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, who was fatally shot in February while jogging in Georgia — said Brooks should not have faced deadly force because he only appeared to have a Taser. Another police car arrives at the scene. A Times video analysis shows the sequence of events leading to the fatal shooting. This led to a felony charge of attempted grand larceny against her, to which Ayala pled guilty in ⦠investigator. Body and dashcam video from Rolfe and Brosnan doesn't show the moment of the shooting but it shows Rolfe questioning Brooks, speaking with Brosnan and grappling with Brooks as both officers take him to the ground and struggle to detain him. The officers involved in the shooting have been removed from duty pending the outcome of the investigation, according to WXIA. Stewart said during a news conference that police often "argue with us in court that Tasers aren’t deadly, that Tasers aren’t harmful. 11:25 p.m. Shields said later that "it is time for the city to move forward. An Atlanta police officer involved in the fatal shooting of a Black man in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant was fired Saturday, hours after the chief resigned as fallout from the shooting swept the department. arrest procedures. Brooks was killed Friday night after two police officers responded to a report of a man sleeping in a vehicle in the drive-thru, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the shooting. Mr. Brooks had fallen asleep in his vehicle, which was parked in the drive-through, causing other customers to drive around him, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Matthew Mulligan, Shamar Walters and Blayne Alexander, Surveillance video released of fatal Atlanta shooting, police chief steps down, Investigator discusses officer-involved shooting of Black man in Atlanta. Police footage and video filmed by a witness, Tiachelle Brown, shows Mr. Brooks grappling with the officers on the ground. We synchronized and slowed down those videos so we can see and hear what unfolded. ... Food truckâs blunt sign explaining face mask policy goes viral. We demand immediate accountability.". [gunshots] [yelling] Let’s watch this back, and break down what happens. In seconds, Officer Rolfe passes his Taser from his right hand to his left hand, and reaches for his handgun. Brooks was taken to a hospital where he died after undergoing surgery. Minyvonne Burke is a breaking news reporter for NBC News. Reynolds said the agency will digitally enhance video taken at the scene and plans to release it to the public later on Saturday. How Rayshard Brooks Was Fatally Shot by the Atlanta Police. They and Mr. Brooks speak calmly and cordially for 41 minutes. "At that point, the Atlanta officer reaches down and retrieves his weapon from his holster, discharges it, strikes Mr. Brooks there on the parking lot, and he goes down.”. Police officers in Atlanta performed a sobriety test on Rayshard Brooks late Friday. Find the latest business news on Wall Street, jobs and the economy, the housing market, personal finance and money investments and much more on ABC News Police procedures on the use of deadly force state that an officer must reasonably believe the suspect possesses a deadly weapon, and that the suspect poses an immediate threat of serious bodily injury to the officer or others. Brooks offers to go to his sister’s house. Officers used tear gas canisters to clear a path for firefighters. Brooks tells the officers he went to visit his mother's gravesite earlier in the day. [yelling] Meanwhile, witnesses denounce the shooting. In cellphone video posted on social media by people who said they were at the scene, Brooks appears to be on the ground struggling with two officers before getting up and running away. For 41 minutes, Brooks and the officers have spoken calmly and respectfully. The flash of the Taser suggests that Mr. Brooks did not fire it with any real accuracy.