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How the Media portrays Rayshard Brooks vs who Brooks actually was
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:19 pm
This how the media portrays Rashard Brooks, replete with happy smiling family photo:
USA TODAY
Who is Rayshard Brooks? Father of 4 celebrated daughter's birthday hours before police shot him in Atlanta
Susan Miller and Nicquel Terry Ellis, USA TODAY
USA TODAYJune 14, 2020, 4:08 PM CDT
ATLANTA – Hours before police shot him outside a Wendy's fast-food restaurant in Atlanta on Friday, Rayshard Brooks had done what dads do: enjoyed a father-daughter day in honor of his little girl's eighth birthday.
The party was supposed to roll into the next day with a skating celebration. But Brooks, 27, would not be there.
The father of four was shot by an Atlanta police officer while fleeing during a struggle at a Wendy's drive-thru late Friday night and died at a hospital, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Brooks had been asleep in his car at the drive-thru, causing other customers to drive around the vehicle, GBI said.
Police were dispatched to the Wendy's around 10:30 p.m. and conducted a sobriety exam on Brooks, who failed the test, then resisted officers' attempts to arrest him, according to investigators.
Rayshard Brooks was a father of four.
GBI Director Vic Reynolds said Brooks grabbed a Taser from one officer and appeared to point it at the officer as he fled. The officer fired three shots.
Family attorney Justin Miller said Brooks took his daughter to get her nails done and pick up something to eat Friday. Saturday, she put on a special dress for the second round of the big occasion, awaiting her dad.
"She had her birthday dress on because she was waiting for her dad to come pick her up to take her to go skating," Miller said Saturday at a news conference. "While we were over there, they had a birthday party for her eighth birthday today with cupcakes ... while we were sitting there talking with her mom about why her dad’s not coming home.”
Another family attorney, L. Chris Stewart, said Brooks worked at a “tortilla place.” He said the officer who shot Brooks should be charged for “an unjustified use of deadly force, which equals murder.”
Stewart said attorneys were with the family Saturday and watched the children "play and laugh and be oblivious to the facts that their dad was murdered."
“You can’t have it both ways in law enforcement,” Stewart said. “You can’t say a Taser is a nonlethal weapon … but when an African American grabs it and runs with it, now it’s some kind of deadly, lethal weapon that calls for you to unload on somebody.”
The nation is grappling with issues of race and police brutality after the death May 25 of George Floyd who was pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. Floyd's death sparked three weeks of protests in cities large and small across the USA.
The officer involved in the Brooks shooting was fired, and another was placed on administrative duty, the police department announced Sunday. The police department released body camera and dash camera footage from both officers. Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields also stepped down.
Crystal Brooks, who said she is Rayshard Brooks' sister-in-law, joined protesters outside the Atlanta Wendy's on Saturday night.
“He wasn’t causing anyone any harm,” she said. “The police went up to the car, and even though the car was parked, they pulled him out of the car and started tussling with him. He did grab the Taser, but he just grabbed the Taser and ran.”
Ellis reported from Atlanta; Miller from Arlington, Virginia. Contributing: The Associated Press
This is who Rayshard Brooks really is, not covered by the media
NAME: BROOKS, RAYSHARD
GDC ID: 1001370147
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
YOB: 1993
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5'07''
WEIGHT: 185
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BLACK
SCARS, MARKS, TATTOOS
INCARCERATION DETAILS
MAJOR OFFENSE: FALSE IMPRISONMENT
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: MITCHELL COUNTY CI
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: 12/23/2014
Important Release Information
The Actual Release Date may occur prior to the Max Possible Release Date due to the offender receiving clemency by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
The Max Possible Release Date is the expiration date of the longest running sentence with credit for time served in a county jail prior to conviction and sentencing. FOR EXAMPLE, if a person is arrested on January 1, 2001 and remains in a county jail until he is sentenced to a term of two years confinement in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections on April 1, 2001, then:
His Sentence Begin Date is April 1, 2001 His Sentence End Date is March 31, 2003. His Max Possible Release Date will be December 31, 2002, giving him credit for time served in jail from the date of his arrest to the date of his sentencing.
For parole information please go to Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles website.
ACTUAL RELEASE DATE: 12/23/2014
CURRENT STATUS: INACTIVE
KNOWN ALIASES
A.K.A. BROOKS,RAGSHARD
A.K.A. BROOKS,RASHAD
A.K.A. BROOKS,RAY ANTONIO
A.K.A. BROOKS,RAY POZ
A.K.A. BROOKS,RAYSARD
A.K.A. BROOKS,RAYSHARD
STATE OF GEORGIA - CURRENT SENTENCES
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: simple battery
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/31/2014
SENTENCE LENGTH: 0 YEARS, 12 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: cruelty to children
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/31/2014
SENTENCE LENGTH: 0 YEARS, 12 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: FALSE IMPRISONMENT
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/31/2014
SENTENCE LENGTH: 7 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: family violence battery
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/31/2014
SENTENCE LENGTH: 0 YEARS, 12 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: THEFT BY REC STOLEN PROP
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/02/2013
SENTENCE LENGTH: 7 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: CRMNL INTERFERE GOVT PROP
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/02/2013
SENTENCE LENGTH: 5 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: obstr of law enf officer
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/02/2013
SENTENCE LENGTH: 0 YEARS, 12 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
STATE OF GEORGIA - PRIOR SENTENCES
STATE OF GEORGIA - INCARCERATION HISTORY
INCARCERATION BEGIN: 08/29/2014
INCARCERATION END: 12/23/2014
USA TODAY
Who is Rayshard Brooks? Father of 4 celebrated daughter's birthday hours before police shot him in Atlanta
Susan Miller and Nicquel Terry Ellis, USA TODAY
USA TODAYJune 14, 2020, 4:08 PM CDT
ATLANTA – Hours before police shot him outside a Wendy's fast-food restaurant in Atlanta on Friday, Rayshard Brooks had done what dads do: enjoyed a father-daughter day in honor of his little girl's eighth birthday.
The party was supposed to roll into the next day with a skating celebration. But Brooks, 27, would not be there.
The father of four was shot by an Atlanta police officer while fleeing during a struggle at a Wendy's drive-thru late Friday night and died at a hospital, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Brooks had been asleep in his car at the drive-thru, causing other customers to drive around the vehicle, GBI said.
Police were dispatched to the Wendy's around 10:30 p.m. and conducted a sobriety exam on Brooks, who failed the test, then resisted officers' attempts to arrest him, according to investigators.
Rayshard Brooks was a father of four.
GBI Director Vic Reynolds said Brooks grabbed a Taser from one officer and appeared to point it at the officer as he fled. The officer fired three shots.
Family attorney Justin Miller said Brooks took his daughter to get her nails done and pick up something to eat Friday. Saturday, she put on a special dress for the second round of the big occasion, awaiting her dad.
"She had her birthday dress on because she was waiting for her dad to come pick her up to take her to go skating," Miller said Saturday at a news conference. "While we were over there, they had a birthday party for her eighth birthday today with cupcakes ... while we were sitting there talking with her mom about why her dad’s not coming home.”
Another family attorney, L. Chris Stewart, said Brooks worked at a “tortilla place.” He said the officer who shot Brooks should be charged for “an unjustified use of deadly force, which equals murder.”
Stewart said attorneys were with the family Saturday and watched the children "play and laugh and be oblivious to the facts that their dad was murdered."
“You can’t have it both ways in law enforcement,” Stewart said. “You can’t say a Taser is a nonlethal weapon … but when an African American grabs it and runs with it, now it’s some kind of deadly, lethal weapon that calls for you to unload on somebody.”
The nation is grappling with issues of race and police brutality after the death May 25 of George Floyd who was pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. Floyd's death sparked three weeks of protests in cities large and small across the USA.
The officer involved in the Brooks shooting was fired, and another was placed on administrative duty, the police department announced Sunday. The police department released body camera and dash camera footage from both officers. Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields also stepped down.
Crystal Brooks, who said she is Rayshard Brooks' sister-in-law, joined protesters outside the Atlanta Wendy's on Saturday night.
“He wasn’t causing anyone any harm,” she said. “The police went up to the car, and even though the car was parked, they pulled him out of the car and started tussling with him. He did grab the Taser, but he just grabbed the Taser and ran.”
Ellis reported from Atlanta; Miller from Arlington, Virginia. Contributing: The Associated Press
This is who Rayshard Brooks really is, not covered by the media
NAME: BROOKS, RAYSHARD
GDC ID: 1001370147
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
YOB: 1993
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5'07''
WEIGHT: 185
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BLACK
SCARS, MARKS, TATTOOS
INCARCERATION DETAILS
MAJOR OFFENSE: FALSE IMPRISONMENT
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: MITCHELL COUNTY CI
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: 12/23/2014
Important Release Information
The Actual Release Date may occur prior to the Max Possible Release Date due to the offender receiving clemency by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
The Max Possible Release Date is the expiration date of the longest running sentence with credit for time served in a county jail prior to conviction and sentencing. FOR EXAMPLE, if a person is arrested on January 1, 2001 and remains in a county jail until he is sentenced to a term of two years confinement in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections on April 1, 2001, then:
His Sentence Begin Date is April 1, 2001 His Sentence End Date is March 31, 2003. His Max Possible Release Date will be December 31, 2002, giving him credit for time served in jail from the date of his arrest to the date of his sentencing.
For parole information please go to Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles website.
ACTUAL RELEASE DATE: 12/23/2014
CURRENT STATUS: INACTIVE
KNOWN ALIASES
A.K.A. BROOKS,RAGSHARD
A.K.A. BROOKS,RASHAD
A.K.A. BROOKS,RAY ANTONIO
A.K.A. BROOKS,RAY POZ
A.K.A. BROOKS,RAYSARD
A.K.A. BROOKS,RAYSHARD
STATE OF GEORGIA - CURRENT SENTENCES
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: simple battery
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/31/2014
SENTENCE LENGTH: 0 YEARS, 12 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: cruelty to children
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/31/2014
SENTENCE LENGTH: 0 YEARS, 12 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: FALSE IMPRISONMENT
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/31/2014
SENTENCE LENGTH: 7 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: family violence battery
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/31/2014
SENTENCE LENGTH: 0 YEARS, 12 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: THEFT BY REC STOLEN PROP
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/02/2013
SENTENCE LENGTH: 7 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: CRMNL INTERFERE GOVT PROP
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/02/2013
SENTENCE LENGTH: 5 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
CASE NO: 794205
OFFENSE: obstr of law enf officer
CONVICTION COUNTY: CLAYTON COUNTY
CRIME COMMIT DATE: 03/02/2013
SENTENCE LENGTH: 0 YEARS, 12 MONTHS, 0 DAYS
STATE OF GEORGIA - PRIOR SENTENCES
STATE OF GEORGIA - INCARCERATION HISTORY
INCARCERATION BEGIN: 08/29/2014
INCARCERATION END: 12/23/2014
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Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:24 pm to tigersbb
The MSM has to stir the pot to keep trouble going and the waters muddied.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:24 pm to tigersbb
quote:
“The police went up to the car, and even though the car was parked, they pulled him out of the car and started tussling with him. He did grab the Taser, but he just grabbed the Taser and ran.”
Anybody who watches the body came footage and all the other footage knows this isn't entirely accurate and some of it even verifiably false.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:27 pm to tigersbb
All he wanted was to enjoy his #3 with Sprite in peace.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:27 pm to JasonMason
So was he drinking at his daughters birthday party and was supposed to go back there next day or had he not actually been to the party yet but was going there next day?
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:27 pm to JasonMason
Not just false but straight up fiction worthy of a Schiff speech in Congress.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:28 pm to thetempleowl
quote:
So was he drinking at his daughters birthday party and was supposed to go back there next day or had he not actually been to the party yet but was going there next day?
From his own mouth he was out with his girlfriend and had "top shelf" drinks.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:28 pm to tigersbb
quote:
Brooks had been asleep in his car at the drive-thru, causing other customers to drive around the vehicle, GBI said.
Asleep....
More like passed out drunk/high
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:30 pm to JasonMason
quote:
they pulled him out of the car and started tussling with him. He did grab the Taser, but he just grabbed the Taser and ran.”
Totally Inaccurate
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:31 pm to tigersbb
What people are upset over is that he was killed by the police. Now ask your self, what lethal force really required for this arrest?
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:31 pm to tigersbb
This should not surprise you. This has been going on for 50 yrs.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:31 pm to tigersbb
Can you get the details of all the complaints lodge against the dirty cops (Chauvin) also. Since we are researching the past. What about the cop that choked the life out of Eric Garner, can I get his past history also.
While we're at it, let's get the background of the cops that murdered Breonna Taylor while she was in her own home and the person they were looking for WAS ALREADY IN CUSTODY before they raided the home and murdered her. Oh and by the way, IT WAS THE WRONG DAMN HOUSE.
Let's do a background check on the cop that killed Alton Sterling. Well his mother and father was prominent in the department and held high positions. He became a loose cannon on the streets of Baton Rouge. He had SEVERAL complaints of excessive force on him, and guess what, swept under the rug.
So lets be fair and impartial here. Or is that too much to ask???
While we're at it, let's get the background of the cops that murdered Breonna Taylor while she was in her own home and the person they were looking for WAS ALREADY IN CUSTODY before they raided the home and murdered her. Oh and by the way, IT WAS THE WRONG DAMN HOUSE.
Let's do a background check on the cop that killed Alton Sterling. Well his mother and father was prominent in the department and held high positions. He became a loose cannon on the streets of Baton Rouge. He had SEVERAL complaints of excessive force on him, and guess what, swept under the rug.
So lets be fair and impartial here. Or is that too much to ask???
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:32 pm to tigersbb
Uh oh. The lies here will cause ATL to burn.
Way to go media!
Way to go media!
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:34 pm to tigersbb
Should have just killed over the cruelty to children conviction and none of this would be an issue.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:38 pm to tigersbb
Father of 4 at age 27. I wonder how many baby mommas?
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:41 pm to tigersbb
Can the media be designated an enemy for trying to incite a civil war and shut down?
This post was edited on 6/15/20 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:41 pm to tissle
quote:
what lethal force really required for this arrest?
Well, it wasn't required until he started playing stupid games...
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:47 pm to The Maj
quote:
Machiavelli @TheRISEofROD
I'm Rayshard Brooks, I was sentenced to 7 yrs for beating my kids, but was out on parole due to covid-19.
I drove drunk to Wendy's.
When a cop tried to arrest me for my 2nd DUI, I took his taser & fired at him, because I knew that I'd be sent back to jail.
I'm a martyr now...
6:55 PM · Jun 14, 2020
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:49 pm to TeamLSU
quote:Published within a week of Floyd’s death
Can you get the details of all the complaints lodge against the dirty cops (Chauvin) also
quote:Published <2 weeks after Eric Garner's death
What about the cop that choked the life out of Eric Garner, can I get his past history also
quote:Published 2 months after Breonna Taylor's death
While we're at it, let's get the background of the cops that murdered Breonna Taylor while she was in her own home and the person they were looking for WAS ALREADY IN CUSTODY before they raided the home and murdered her. Oh and by the way, IT WAS THE WRONG DAMN HOUSE.
quote:Although it appears that you already know everything about this case, this article was posted the very next day after Alton Sterling's death
Let's do a background check on the cop that killed Alton Sterling. Well his mother and father was prominent in the department and held high positions. He became a loose cannon on the streets of Baton Rouge. He had SEVERAL complaints of excessive force on him, and guess what, swept under the rug.
Not really sure what your point is, seeing as how virtually every negative detail about police officers involved in fatal shootings becomes public knowledge shortly after the incidents in question - the lone recent exception being Breonna Taylor, which does indeed appear to be a legitimate attempt by the Louisville PD to keep the facts out of the press, and which resulted in the early retirement of the LPD Chief and an FBI investigation.
This post was edited on 6/15/20 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:51 pm to TeamLSU
quote:
So lets be fair and impartial here. Or is that too much to ask???
Why dont you do it and report back to us on this board? You may be right,who knows. But,none of these cops had nice fuzzy puff pieces written about them like Rayshard Brooks.
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