ATLANTA -- From beginning to end, the encounter between Rayshard Brooks and two Atlanta police officers lasted 41 minutes and 17 seconds. For the first 40 minutes, it looked like a textbook example of policing.The officers treated Brooks, 27, with respect. They were cordial as they asked about his night
ATLANTA — From beginning to end, the encounter between Rayshard Brooks and two Atlanta police officers lasted 41 minutes and 17 seconds. For the first 40 minutes, it looked like a textbook example of policing.
“It’s at the point where the officer places his hands on him that things go south in a fraction of a second,” said Kalfani Ture, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Quinnipiac University who said he had viewed the video footage more than three dozen times. “So you have to pay attention to the minutiae of details — you have to try to understand decision-making, but you also have to pick out best practices.
Brooks was 18 feet and 3 inches away when the first shot was fired. Prosecutors said that as Brooks lay dying, Rolfe kicked his bleeding body, and the other officer, Devin Brosnan, stood on his shoulder. Neither offered medical assistance for more than two minutes, prosecutors said. Some observers have said the shooting death of Brooks could have been avoided if the two officers, who are white, had declined to arrest him. According to the footage from Brosnan’s body camera, Brooks maintained that he had not had more than two drinks that night.It seemed like a simple request. “Why didn’t they just let him go home?” Brooks’ father, Larry Barbine, asked in an interview with The Toledo Blade.
“Like with so many other social problems, we put officers at the forefront of dealing with DUI,” said Seth Stoughton, a former police officer who teaches law at the University of South Carolina. “So it should be no surprise that officers arrest someone for DUI. That’s what we’ve been telling them to do for a long time.”
In his news conference announcing the criminal charges against the officers, Howard said they had violated the Police Department’s policy because Brooks “was never informed he was under arrest for driving under the influence.” When Brooks lurched away from the two officers as they moved to cuff him, they hung on, and the three fell into a heap on the pavement, fighting and struggling.
Several policing experts agreed that Rolfe should have known that Brooks was not a deadly threat, but for other reasons.
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