Rayshard Brooks' niece says her family lost 'a girl dad' and 'a loving husband.' His family is speaking now in Atlanta.
Stacey Abrams speaks during the Martin & Coretta S. King Unity Breakfast on March 1 in Selma, Alabama. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Former Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams says the death of Rayshard Brooks — a 27-year-old black man who was shot twice in the back by police in Atlanta — was murder. “The decision to shoot him in the back was one made out of maybe impatience or frustration or panic, but it was not one that justifies deadly force. It was murder.”from police, restaurant and witnesses showed the confrontation are being used to piece together the last minutes of Brooks' life.“This is a man who had been frisked, so they knew he did not possess a deadly weapon. They knew that he was impaired because he had parked in that driveway.
“Every moment of justification is a moment of dehumanization. That's the problem. Let's not get distracted. The distraction that happens is that we try to find reasons that murder is acceptable when a black man or a black woman is the victim and that should not happen," she said. She disagreed with the calls to defund the police and instead agreed with “reallocating resources for the public good.”
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