Mourners gathered for the public viewing of Rayshard Brooks, the Black man shot in the back by an Atlanta police officer outside a Wendy's, at the city's Ebenezer Baptist Church
All wearing masks as mandated by the church, and some in Black Lives Matter T-shirts, mourner after mourner walked slowly past the casket to pay their respects to Brooks, who lay in a white suit with gold buttons and aviator sunglasses on his face. One woman faced the casket with open arms and then pumped her fist in the air.
“When I saw this on the news, I just shook my head and said to myself, that’s another one, another Black man died from police,” added Hill, who is Black and was wearing an “I can’t breath” T-shirt.The body arrived in a black hearse with a placard bearing Brooks’ picture and the words: “KILLED in Atlanta, Georgia 2020”. The casket was escorted into a church steeped in the history of the Black struggle for civil rights. Ebenezer Baptist was where Martin Luther King Jr.
Brooks’ funeral, which the family’s lawyer said would be paid for by filmmaker Tyler Perry, is scheduled for Tuesday. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard asserted that Brooks was running away at the time of the shooting, was more than 18 feet away and posed no threat.
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