During "Black Lives Matter" protests: In the USA, a black man is shot again by police officers - this time in Atlanta. The results of the autopsy are now available.
- USA : Protests by " Black Lives Matter " * after the violent death of George Floyd * by police officer Derek Chauvin *.
- Another African American is killed by police officers in Atlanta - Rayshard Brooks was allegedly shot after a clash with cops.
- A video of the failed arrest is circulating on Twitter .
- Now the local forensic medicine has determined a cause of death (see update from June 15, 9:39 am).
Update of June 15, 11:13 p.m .: Since the autopsy of the American Rayshard Brooks , who was killed in a police operation in Atlanta in the US state of Georgia, one thing is certain: the 27-year-old has clearly died from the shots of a white police officer. Now the dramatic incident is classified as a homicide . By the middle of the week, prosecutors would decide whether to charge Garrett Rolfe, the police officer who allegedly fired the fatal gunshot , District Attorney Paul Howard told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper .
USA: Protests in Atlanta further fueled by Brooks' death
Howard said in a statement that two witnesses should be heard before the indictment is decided. The prosecutor told CNN that Brooks didn't seem to pose a threat to anyone . "The fact that it escalated until his death just seems inappropriate," said Howard, according to the broadcaster. A charge of murder or negligent homicide is possible .
In the United States - and especially in Atlanta - Brooks' death had further fueled protests against racism and police violence . The demonstrations have continued since a brutal police operation in Minneapolis on May 25 when African American George Floyd was killed .
USA protests / Atlanta: Forensic medicine determines shots as cause for Brooks death
Update of June 15, 9:39 am: After an African American was killed again by police violence last Friday evening (local time) in the United States, the responsible forensic medicine in Atlanta published the results of the autopsy on Sunday. Therefore have two gunshot wounds to the deaths of Rayshard Brooks after a police operation in Atlanta (US state of Georgia) out .
After the post-mortem examination, forensic medicine announced on Sunday that Brooks had two shots in the back, the TV station CNN reported in the evening (local time). The 27-year-old man died of organ damage and blood loss from the two gunshot wounds. Death is now being carried out as a homicide.
On Friday evening, Brooks had been checked by the police because he had fallen asleep in his car in a queue in front of a fast food restaurant. He was gunned down by one of the two white police officers after resisting arrest . According to information from the Criminal Police Office in Georgia, the man subsequently died in the hospital after an operation.
There are currently numerous people across the country protesting against racism and police violence. The trigger was the death of African American George Floyd in a brutal police operation three weeks ago in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And while the cause of death in the Brooks case appears to be clear, there were initially contradictions in the results of Floyd's body autopsy *.
Police violence is a topic of discussion not only in the USA, but also in Germany . A criminologist has now compared the German and US police systems in this regard - and comes to a clear conclusion *.
US President Donald Trump has been heavily criticized for dealing with violent protests in the United States to date . Among other things, he wanted to use the military *.
USA: Rayshard Brooks is said to have gripped a policeman's electroshock pistol
Update of June 13, 10 p.m .: The GBI criminal investigation office in the state of Georgia has made public its first findings on the Rayshard Brooks case in the United States .
Accordingly, the 27-year-old had not passed a sobriety test and should be taken into custody. According to witnesses, there was a fight in which the man seized a policeman's electroshock pistol.
In the fight for this taser , an official shot the African American with his pistol . He reportedly died in the hospital a short time later.
USA / Rayshard Brooks: Police officers shot dead in Atlanta?
First message from June 13: The US has its next polarizing case: Again, police officers in the United States have killed an African American . This is reported by the large daily AJC .
According to this, a 27-year-old man was shot in a failed cop arrest in Atlanta . It is said to be the black resident Rayshard Brooks .
Brutal: A video is circulating on Twitter about the incident, which was apparently recorded by eyewitnesses.
A young man can be seen on it, who initially fights with policemen and snatches a so-called taser from one of the officers - an electric shock pistol .
Atlanta police shot and killed a man last night in a Wendy's parking lot ... pic.twitter.com/KhyjfQSTn6
- BIG DAWG (Hue) (@hxxxuexxx) June 13, 2020The alleged fatality Brooks then escapes in a parking lot - a short time later he is dead. According to the report, he was shot by police officers.
Anti-racism protests in the US: Another African American killed by police officers
According to the information, the following happened: The later fatality is said to have fallen asleep in the drive-in of a fast food restaurant at the wheel of his car - allegedly drunk, which is why other customers informed the police.
This apparently wanted to carry out an alcohol check, against which he is said to have refused. The dispute resulted in Brooks being killed.
The GBI is investigating an OIS involving one male subject & Atlanta Police Officers. The subject is deceased. One officer was treated for an injury and released from the hospital.
Read press release ⬇️: https: //t.co/mnb8V62iSj pic.twitter.com/ZhbAUrUmqJ
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it was launching an investigation into an incident between a man and Atlanta police officers in which the man was said to have died, Twitter said.
USA: Donald Trump fights with Black Lives Matter - not only because of the George Floyd case
This is the advice of the independent authority to investigate incidents involving the police. Subsequent protests in Atlanta by the " Black Lives Matter " movement, which was founded after the violent death of African American George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin .
Donald Trump and the US government are currently trying to get the anti-racism protests under control - but now the Rayshard Brooks case is polarizing .
It is not only since the George Floyd case that a certain gesture, also in sports, expresses protest against police violence. US President Donald Trump is not taken with her. Does Trump now think she is "disrespectful"?
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