Paul Howard, the District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, has charged Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe with felony murder in the death of Rayshard Brooks. Felony murder could get the death penalty. There are some details you may not be aware of.
The two officers had Mr. Brooks' car, his driver's license, had patted him down and concluded he had no deadly weapons and were aware the taser he held had already been fired twice. After Officer Garrett Rolfe put two bullets in Mr. Brooks' back, he kicked him in a fit of anger. So, yes. Let's make this about Paul Howard. smh
Reading all of this, who would want to be a police officer in Atlanta? I don't blame the officers that walked off, or chose to skip their shift. If I was one, I would resign and look for a city where law and truth still means something. When truth is meaningless and only optics is important, then the outworking of justice is no longer possible. I don't know whether the officer did something wrong. But I fear for him, as now truth doesn't matter. I do know that the district attorney has done that is wrong. If he has a boss, he should be fired. For a city reported to be the birth place of "civil rights" what is happening is more than sad, for now the city might be know as the place where optics won and truth was rendered meaningless.
Wait! To REALLY pile on, we need Al Sharpton or "Reverend" Jackson to March through Atlanta screaming racist slurs about the cops and members of a white surpremist black group!!🙄
Wait.. i hear a name! YES! Its a District Attorney.. Mike Nifong! A DA seeking reelection during troubled days.. Anf there's a game afoot... La... X? Lacrosse?
Ah Mike Nifong and Duke Lacrosse!
Wonder what happened to Mike??
Pay attention Paul Howard! It WILL come back to haunt you!!
This is just another example of the vast difference in worldview that drives the deep US political divide. Either the law is going to be based on specific case evidence or it is going to be based on some other standard, like race or party affiliation. This issue cuts both ways in terms of race. If blacks are indeed suffering unjustified violence from police, then a proper application of the law is to prosecute guilty police based on specific case evidence and not condemn innocent police. A just legal system will neither give bad police a free get out of jail card nor rioters the ability to force a virtually lynching of police who are acting within reasonable bounds to enforce the law.
The two officers had Mr. Brooks' car, his driver's license, had patted him down and concluded he had no deadly weapons and were aware the taser he held had already been fired twice. After Officer Garrett Rolfe put two bullets in Mr. Brooks' back, he kicked him in a fit of anger. So, yes. Let's make this about Paul Howard. smh
As someone who has lived in Atlanta all my life, I am embarrassed by Paul Howard. What a disgrace.
Reading all of this, who would want to be a police officer in Atlanta? I don't blame the officers that walked off, or chose to skip their shift. If I was one, I would resign and look for a city where law and truth still means something. When truth is meaningless and only optics is important, then the outworking of justice is no longer possible. I don't know whether the officer did something wrong. But I fear for him, as now truth doesn't matter. I do know that the district attorney has done that is wrong. If he has a boss, he should be fired. For a city reported to be the birth place of "civil rights" what is happening is more than sad, for now the city might be know as the place where optics won and truth was rendered meaningless.
Wait! To REALLY pile on, we need Al Sharpton or "Reverend" Jackson to March through Atlanta screaming racist slurs about the cops and members of a white surpremist black group!!🙄
Wait.. i hear a name! YES! Its a District Attorney.. Mike Nifong! A DA seeking reelection during troubled days.. Anf there's a game afoot... La... X? Lacrosse?
Ah Mike Nifong and Duke Lacrosse!
Wonder what happened to Mike??
Pay attention Paul Howard! It WILL come back to haunt you!!
Thank you for obtaining the full story. Howard seems disgraceful.
This is just another example of the vast difference in worldview that drives the deep US political divide. Either the law is going to be based on specific case evidence or it is going to be based on some other standard, like race or party affiliation. This issue cuts both ways in terms of race. If blacks are indeed suffering unjustified violence from police, then a proper application of the law is to prosecute guilty police based on specific case evidence and not condemn innocent police. A just legal system will neither give bad police a free get out of jail card nor rioters the ability to force a virtually lynching of police who are acting within reasonable bounds to enforce the law.