One officer was treated for an injury sustained during the encounter but has already been released from the hospital, according to GBI.
Once the GBI concludes its investigation, the case will be turned over to the Fulton County District Attorney. ATLANTA, GA - JUNE 06: Law enforcement officers are seen on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol during a protest against police brutality on June 6, 2020 in Atlanta, United States. This is the 12th day of protests since George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.
ATLANTA, GA - JUNE 06: Law enforcement officers are seen on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol during a protest against police brutality on June 6, 2020 in Atlanta, United States. This is the 12th day of protests since George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.Friday night's deadly encounter with police led to large groups gathering at the scene, according to many social media videos.
Atlanta, along with cities across the U.S. and the world, has been the site of massive protests following the death of
Racist channel. Shame
Ummmm. It happens if you break the law. Nothing new why do you keep dividing our country?
'A police officer killed a man late Friday night'
Intoxicated man resists arrest, attempts to grab officers stun gun, and is shot
Police - if you NEED to shoot, don’t aim to kill! 🥺
please help save my loved one from execution. He did not commit this crime and no evidence has ever been found
What did he do i so quick to blame the police but let’s not ask what he did wrong ?!! Oh of course not that would be wrong! Screw that im sure he did something wrong but oh no the police are automatically wrong until YOU NEED them!
Get ALL THE FACTS before making judgement
He was asleep, and then aware enough to steal a cops’ taser while being arrested? How?
Why are blacks disproportionately reacting with aggression when they are being arrested by law enforcement. Are they being indoctrinated this way?
People... in naswer of Resisting arrest you do not shoot, if it's hard for you to understand than just stop it and get some help
I see your framing, and I raise you 'Atlanta police shoots and kills a man Friday night according to the GBI' ... I think we're saying the same thing
Per the comments seems like Russia IS BACK TO THEIR RACIST PROPAGANDA AGAIN DONT fall for it. This is how they work to divide Americans and create a sense hatred and apathy. In other words these comments are bullsht
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dancindoti yep, lest news today
He grabbed a taser and pointed it at the cops. I'm sure he could have been tased by a different officer, but seeing as a taser can lead to serious bodily harm or death, it would appear the use of force would be justified in this instance.
a black man. Get your details right and complete the story. Atlanta_Police you have some explaining to do. Accountability is also needed for this unnecessary death and excessive use of force
Shot in the back while running away...should've been in the hradline
Shot in the back!
Unarmed BLACK MAN shot to death in the back... that’s illegal and cowardice
No need to kill him. Weak murderer .. was it for your pride of no being able to put the cuffs on him?!
It always begins with resisting and ends up on the front page.
Well.. don't grab the cops tazer and point it at them..
Who killed him? Who did the killing? How about we get a national ban on this fucking passive voice killing in headlines, how about that?
This MUST STOP!!! 😢😢😢
Now report deaths in Chicago...we’ll wait.
The fact that black men are still being shot just for being black, especially in the current climate of unrest, should scream that there is something abysmally wrong with our police officers. WHY TF do they always default to lethal force. This is not a f*cking video game...
JUST IN: An unarmed black man was killed after reportedly being shot by an Atlanta police officer late Friday night, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. There, fixed it for you.
Not to long ago I watched some civilians go through a police training to see what it was like. During a training scenario one of the civilians 'fired' at a suspect running away. The training officer said we don't shoot suspects running away. Was this force trained differently?
I want to see video..........
Why was he fleeing?
Why haven’t you covered the cops being killed at protests/riots? Not newsworthy? FU! SHAME!
Unarmed Black Man. Shot in the back. CowardPigs
You mean an unarmed Black man was shot in the back.
Please fix your headline.
The carnage goes on and on even in the face of police being called out on it--maybe because of them being called out on it.....and 'because they can.' They just want us to know that in case we thought for a minute our protests were working.
You misspelled 'unarmed.'
Do better with your headline. Another unarmed black man terrorized and killed by racist police.
White people: BuT cHiCaGo
Atlanta pd are terror team members! GA has a big problem! Republicans accepted that southern strategy too readily & applied a Limbaugh brain infestation on top of it! What a fvcking mess!
If someone is sleeping in an uncomfortable location my first thought is that they may be suffering from an INSULIN problem. Give the man a Snickers not death.
I'm so sick and tired of police brutality and endless African Americans dying for no reason whatsoever!!!
Correction: UNARMED BLACK MAN SHOT IN THE BACK AS HE WAS RUNNING AWAY FROM KILLER COPS.
Passive voice buries the truth. “Atlanta late Friday night shot and killed an unarmed man fleeing a DUI arrest. He was shot in the back.”
Unarmed black man was shot in the back by an Atlanta police officer. Fixed your headline for you.
triple_tubers itsrukhy THIS WAS IN ATLANTA BRUH
UNARMED!!!!! THIS COUNTRY WILL FALL
He resisted, struggled & was tased while fleeing so they executed him. He ran away from everything you bastards needed to capture him later. You had his goddamn license plate . This was murder & you had no fear of committing it. That’s a domestic threat that needs to be stopped.
Missing a few details in the headline again. Weird how that keeps happening. Almost like you act as a shield for police brutality. Curious
Drunk black man sleeping in his car resists arrest and is shot three times in the back.
He resisted, struggled, broke free, was tased while fleeing & they executed him. He fucking ran away from everything you bastards had to identify him for later apprehension. You had his license plate. That was murder & you had no fear of committing it. That’s a threat to us.
JUST IN: An unarmed African-American man was killed after reportedly being shot by an Atlanta police officer late Friday night, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. There. Fixed it for you.
They Shot him in the back.
So he was unarmed and shot in the back?.... Yet he was trying to 'grab a stun gun?...' Did he reach behind his own back to try and grab it?... The moral of the story is don't turn your back on a cop they feel threatened by it.... AskingForAFriend
Apparently blacks kill more cops. Facts don't lie:
AtlantaShooting Banner Headline BLACK MAN SHOT IN THE BACK.... AGAIN!!!!😠 MediaOutletResponsibility GetItStriaght BlackLivesMatter
Maybe I’m just smarter than everyone, but I’ll never understand why they don’t cuff the ankles when they get you on the ground? Seems to me it solves NUMEROUS problems?
REPORTEDLY? THERE'S TAPE!!!!
If anyone thought the protest would end they won't. This is why people are protesting.
And
These pig cops don’t know when to stop killing
Is it possible for a black man to be arrested without getting shot? Serious question
Article says this man was sleeping in a parked car at a Wendy's albeit at the drive thru. This all couldve been avoided if the cops had moved this man into a parking spot so he could sleep off the alchohol like he was doing. Now hes dead. See how shit couldve been so simple 🤦🏾♂️
Last I heard police have that right.
Is there any particular reason this is national news?, is ABC News trying to stoke fear?, sad to see a national news organization trying to divide a nation with fear. YellowJournalism
Why aren't you reporting on ALL deaths? FakeNews
Are you guys going to tell the entire story or just do a click bait headline to spark more tension?
Wendys on university ave needs to drop the drive-thru camera footage so we can see exactly what happened to rayshardbrooks !
For those saying the shooting was justified... He was running away according to the AJC..
Tragic. Heartbreaking. Shouldn't happen. But, drunk/sober, grab officers weapon- you're gonna get shot. Cops need better training. Citizens need better teaching. Life Liberty Justice
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COPS LIVES MATTER!
Another one 🤦🏾♂️ RIP🙏
Y’all left out UNARMED in the caption.
wait ✋🏽 was he black or white?
Wow SMFH
Best to wait for all of the facts, but hearing this shit daily hits me and my family like a gut punch.
northsidenotch I dont understand something. He grabbed their stun gun, which gives them the justification to shoot him. So they feared for their lives? But police can use stun guns with impunity because they're considered less than lethal. Get back to me when you come up with the answer.
TheGreatSlashby
DefundThePolice
Wow you liberals didn’t report when Davis Dorn was murdered! His shooter didn’t even have to do any time. Soros bailed him out!
' reached for the cop's gun ', are the narratives we keep on hearing after thevictims were killed.
why is the fake news trying to create civil war
Oh twitter outrage.
Let me guess, they lost the body cam footage already.
Generally if you run from police they are given authority to shoot by policy. I don’t think they should be using lethal means but a taser at that point but this is a police policy that needs to be discussed. Once again race doesn’t explain the problem of running from police .
Why don’t to show how many police and other citizens have died and murdered due to rioters and looting! Why don’t you show how many businesses have suffered due to the riots and looting! You and all news media support the killing of innocent people!
So people get arrested for sleeping in cars now? And deadly force was absolutely necessary in the situation with multiple police against and unarmed man trying to stop someone from tazering him?
TylerIAm So 2 cops couldn’t detain a 1 man, he broke free, started running, one cop chased while tasing, and the other cop basically said “fuck this shit I ain’t chasin” and shot multiple times
No worries about the 1,000’s of elderly killed by Dem Govs. Don’t worry about the 1,000’s shot, beaten and assaulted over the past few weeks. Let’s just gas light this whole bitch and keep pushing this Cops are Bad narrative. Wake up America! The media is the EnemyOfThePeople
Why was shooting him the appropriate reaction to a nearly stolen stun gun? All other context aside. Stun gun vs bullet gun. Make it make sense.
AND HE WAS DOING WHAT
Welp let's see those body cams.
Poor man.
To the streets ATL
You left out after the person “grabbed the stun gun and was shot by police” in your Twitter headline. I guess ABC likes to stir things up.
Thank God there are police that are not afraid to do their job with all this bullshit going on. Grab for a taser, you get what's coming to you.
Meanwhile there are dozens killed everyday in the suburbs
Why is an unarmed man, passed out in his car,not dangerous,not wanted,get murdered by Cops. A Bullet, & Death Sentence is not the Solution, to Unfortunate Homeless, Mentally ill, or inebriated Citizens. NAZI type solutions, are no longer acceptable.The man was no danger to anyone
If he isn’t black it won’t matter 🙄
Unbelievable. For the crime sleeping drunk & waking up confused, he gets a death sentence. Policing is out of hand.
Sigh... Why don't you post the stats of cops getting shot and murdered?
How Does an unarmed man, passed out in his car, likely delirious, escalate to being murdered by Cops. A Bullet, & Death Sentence is not the Solution, to Unforunate Homeless, Mentally ill, or inebriated Citizens. NAZI type solutions, are no longer acceptable.
These events showed the true colors and reality of police brutality.
What should a cop do if someone who's resisting arrest grab their service weapon? .. someone under the influence of drugs/alcohol resists and grabbed my weapon what should I do?
Yeah wow! Thats incredible
EndResistingArrest
If don't want to do the time don't do the crime. Ga respects authorities and everyone is innocent until proven guilty. No one rushing to judgement over some narrated videos. We trust the system and justice will be served .
Can we make it about race before we have the facts?
JFC, abc. You've just covered two weeks of cops lying about assaulting journalists and citizens, yet you wrote this entire piece without once pointing out THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE for their claims. Stop retyping police press releases as news.
Hmmm
Honestly if he was driving drunk it's really just a public service killing.
R ppl just provoking police now to fuel the fires?
100% of rioters are Fatherless
Marital racism is the evilest of all the racisms out there. If you don't address that, you ARE a racist. There is NO excuse for same-race marriages in today's world. There is no excuse which race does it either. Racism is racism no matter who does it. BAN same race marriages NOW!
bluelivesmatter playstupidgameswinstupidprizes
I wonder how and the MainstreamMedia is going to spin this. Let me grab some popcorn 🍿
Well... he was holding up the drive thru line. People are hungry.
The police are an inherently murderous and corrupt force. This will never stop. They are responsible for enforcing modern-day slavery. What an oppressive regime. PoliceState
Smh stupid policemen with no training let’s just kill him this doves everything. I’m sure sleeping in a park car was not a reason to die
Let's see the body cam
Alternate, more accurate headline: “Intoxicated man resists arrest, attempts to grab officers stun gun, and is shot”
Defund the police
Again!!
Just in, 30 people were shot in Chicago 11 people were killed in Chicago this past weekend. Which do you think is more important.
Taking a wild guess here that the either the officer wasn’t white or the suspect wasn’t black.
He shouldn’t have fought with the police.
More Riots to come Now
ABC is fake news.
Why didn't the cop just surrender his taser and allow himself to be tased by the crook?
Yet, another pointless death... May he RIP 🙏
says they were struggling for a taser when you fight a cop you give up every right you have
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