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| Rayshard Brooks: protests in Atlanta over police shooting of African American man – live | Rayshard Brooks: protests in Atlanta over police shooting of African American man – live |
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| New officer-involved shooting leads police chief to quit and demonstrators to return to the streets | New officer-involved shooting leads police chief to quit and demonstrators to return to the streets |
| It’s Donald Trump’s 74th birthday today and the president is at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, having given the commencement address at West Point in New York on Saturday. | |
| That occasion went pretty well, although the president is not a fan of people who speculated about why, when exiting the stage, he seemed to find walking down a ramp rather hard: | |
| Momentum, as the president notes, tends to gather when things are going downhill. | |
| Also, from the Department of There’s Always A Tweet For That… there’s always a tweet for that: | |
| But never mind. | |
| The rest of Trump’s Twitter feed overnight featured favourable coverage of his speech, retweets of inflammatory videos about “antifa” protesters and again harsh criticism for those, Joe Biden among them, who choose to kneel to express solidarity with protesters against police brutality. Nothing to seek to calm the troubled streets of Atlanta. So far, so modern-day presidential. | |
| Trump is due to head back to Washington late this afternoon, so there will be chances for “chopper talk” words with reporters. That said, the president hasn’t been particularly keen to speak to the press of late. | |
| Here’s world affairs editor Julian Borger on the West Point speech and Trump’s troubled relationship with the US military: | |
| Here’s a video report on events in Atlanta last night: | |
| The Associated Press has more on what released video footage shows of the arrest of Rayshard Brooks, his struggle with police officers and the moment he was shot: | The Associated Press has more on what released video footage shows of the arrest of Rayshard Brooks, his struggle with police officers and the moment he was shot: |
| A reporter in Atlanta, meanwhile, has tweeted a picture of the scene at the Wendy’s restaurant this morning: | A reporter in Atlanta, meanwhile, has tweeted a picture of the scene at the Wendy’s restaurant this morning: |
| …on another day in a country still under a public health crisis, and still gripped by protests over police brutality and structural racism. | …on another day in a country still under a public health crisis, and still gripped by protests over police brutality and structural racism. |
| The protests began after George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, was killed by officers in Minneapolis. But the deaths, and the protests, keep coming. | The protests began after George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, was killed by officers in Minneapolis. But the deaths, and the protests, keep coming. |
| In Atlanta overnight, demonstrators marched and a Wendy’s restaurant burned. The night before, outside the drive-thru, police were called to deal with a man sleeping in his car. The man failed a sobriety test, investigators said, and after a struggle in which he took one of the officers’ Tasers, Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old African American man, was killed. | In Atlanta overnight, demonstrators marched and a Wendy’s restaurant burned. The night before, outside the drive-thru, police were called to deal with a man sleeping in his car. The man failed a sobriety test, investigators said, and after a struggle in which he took one of the officers’ Tasers, Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old African American man, was killed. |
| On Saturday, the story brewed slowly through the day, facts coming out, crowds gathering, law enforcement talking. The incident was caught on video. Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she “did not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force”. Atlanta police chief Erika Shields resigned. Garrett Rolfe, the officer who allegedly shot Brooks, was fired. The other officer involved, Devin Brosnan, was placed on administrative duty. | On Saturday, the story brewed slowly through the day, facts coming out, crowds gathering, law enforcement talking. The incident was caught on video. Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she “did not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force”. Atlanta police chief Erika Shields resigned. Garrett Rolfe, the officer who allegedly shot Brooks, was fired. The other officer involved, Devin Brosnan, was placed on administrative duty. |
| And protesters took to the streets. | And protesters took to the streets. |
| “You can’t have it both ways in law enforcement,” said Chris Stewart, an attorney for the Brooks family. “You can’t say a Taser is a non-lethal weapon ... but when an African American grabs it and runs with it, now it’s some kind of deadly, lethal weapon that calls for you to unload on somebody.” | “You can’t have it both ways in law enforcement,” said Chris Stewart, an attorney for the Brooks family. “You can’t say a Taser is a non-lethal weapon ... but when an African American grabs it and runs with it, now it’s some kind of deadly, lethal weapon that calls for you to unload on somebody.” |
| Welcome to another day in America. | Welcome to another day in America. |
| Here’s some more hopeful further reading from Sandra Susan Smith, of Berkeley, soon to be of Harvard: | Here’s some more hopeful further reading from Sandra Susan Smith, of Berkeley, soon to be of Harvard: |