police in Atlanta stopped working on Wednesday evening. This happened after the Prosecutor’s office has charged the ex-police officer Garrett Rolf, a total of 11 charges in the case of the murder of African-American Rashard Brooks. On the charge of murder in the Rolf facing a lifetime in prison or the death penalty.
the Second COP Devin Brosnan, who participated in the detention, charged with three counts, including the aggravated assault.
Recall, Rolf and Brosnan responded to a call on June 12 and found that the car in which slept 27-year-old Brooks, blocked part of the site at the cafe Wendy’s. In the process of checking the presence of alcohol in the blood of the driver, Brooks grabbed one of the police Taser and tried to escape. The policeman fired several shots at the man. Subsequently, Rashard Brooks died in hospital.
venene the same day, police in Atlanta said that they stop working. This information was confirmed by the Regional Director of the International brotherhood of police South-East region Vince champion ( International Brotherhood of Police Southeast Regional Director Vince Champion).
– We don’t know the exact number left work, I heard a different version. But we know that at least in the three zones of the officers actually left. We heard that in one area the officers are in the building, but it will not work, if the officer calls for them, he said The Police Tribun – as some sections of the report that the officers just sitting in their POV (privately owned vehicles) in the Parking lot – continued the champion.
the Mayor is at a loss and don’t seem to know what to do.
the City has already tried to appeal, as I know, the two neighboring districts – Cobb County and GWINNETT County – and the County said no, they will not help. They are not going to put its officers at risk of being fired or arrested, – said the champion.
He also stressed that the Union did not call the officers to leave work. “Just have a group of officers who are fed up. They tried to influence the situation in all the best ways. They tried to wait for the investigation. Because the GBI is still investigating why district attorney Paul Howard decided that his investigation will exceed the state?”
painfully Ordinary Americans reacted to the news that police gave them the right to defend himself.
“frankly, the police officer had no right in this situation to shoot to kill. Had
delay in the worst case, shoot below the belt, Taser is not the weapon,” this position is shared by some.
“Yes, but at the same time the police banned the use of tasers against demonstrators, then they are considered a weapon” – say the others.
But all agree on the fact that if the floor��tion will not return to their work, the city will be chaos. In this situation, people are concerned that in some States, like California, already in shortage of weapons, because of the high demand to buy it has become problematic.
And the police Department, meanwhile, declared the collection of funds for a lawyer for Rolf – at the moment already collected 57 thousand U.S. dollars.
