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Violent riots after Rayshard Brooks' death
(CNN) - The death of Rayshard Brooks at the hands of an Atlanta white police officer has already resulted in a litany of consequences for the city.
Brooks' death not only sparked protests this weekend, but also led to the sudden resignation of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields. The agent who shot Brooks, identified by police as Garrett Rolfe, was fired, and a second officer involved in the encounter, Devin Brosnan, was put into office duty. CNN has contacted officers and the police union for comment.
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"There is a clear distinction between what one can do and what one should do," Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said at a press conference on Saturday. "I don't think this was a justified use of lethal force."
Many questions remain unanswered, perhaps the main one being whether agents will face charges. But several videos that captured Brooks's last moments in Wendy's parking lot on Friday night at least shed some light on how the 27-year-old father was killed.
This is what the videos show, filmed by surveillance cameras, police corps cameras, dash cameras and spectators.
The initial encounter
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), police responded to reports that a man was asleep in his vehicle in Wendy's car service lane.
The beginning of the incident is seen in images from a body camera used by Brosnan. The images show the agent arriving on the scene and approaching Brooks' vehicle on the self-service line. According to the camera clock, the incident occurred just after 10:40 pm (Miami time) on Friday.
Brooks is apparently asleep behind the wheel and Brosnan knocks on the window to wake him up. The agent opens the door and says to Brooks, "Hey man, you're parked in the middle of the car service line." Brooks doesn't seem to respond at first.
When he wakes up, Brooks seems disoriented and incoherent. Brosnan asks if he's tired and then tells Brooks to stop at a parking spot. Eventually Brooks moves the vehicle after the agent pressed it a little more and had to wake Brooks a second time.
Brosnan approaches Brooks' parked vehicle and asks if he's been drinking. Brooks tells the agent that he only had one drink. While Brooks searches for his license, Brosnan calls to ask another agent to test drive under the influence.
At one point Brooks tells Brosnan that he is visiting.
"Who are you visiting?" Asks the agent.
"My mother's grave," says Brooks.
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that," says Brosnan.
A few minutes later, Rolfe arrives on the scene. After a quick explanation from Brosnan, Rolfe begins to ask Brooks how he got there. Brooks insists that he does not remember being on the car service line, and does not seem to know where he is.
A few minutes after 11 pm, Rolfe begins a sobriety test. Brooks asks, "What should I do, sir?"
After several tests, Rolfe asks Brooks how he feels on a scale of 1 to 10.
"I feel good, sir," says Brooks.
Rolfe then uses an breathalyzer at Brooks, who explains that he had been drinking and that it was his daughter's birthday.
"I think you drank too much to drive," says Rolfe. "Put your hands behind your back."
According to the body camera images, it is 11:23 pm.
The struggle
The moments before Rayshard Brooks' death 0:50But when Rolfe tries to handcuff Brooks, a struggle ensues.
It is difficult to discern what happens in the images captured by the cameras that Brosnan and Rolfe use. Both body cameras fall in the altercation.
But camera images from the officers' patrol dashboard show the three men on the ground fighting each other. Camera images from Rolfe's board show Brosnan preparing his Taser electric pistol while Rolfe holds Brooks from behind.
"They're going to shoot you with the Taser," says one of the agents.
Another video filmed by a spectator in the car service line begins shortly after the struggle begins and shows Brooks holding the electric pistol.
"Drop the j ***** Taser," says one of the agents. Drop the Taser.
The struggle continues as one of the officers says, "Stop fighting."
Eventually Brooks takes the Taser and breaks free. As he stands up, he punches Rolfe in the face.
Rolfe steps back and unsheathes his own Taser, which shoots Brooks when the man runs away, with Rolfe behind him.
The shooting
Only one camera, a surveillance camera from outside Wendy's, captured what the others did not: the moment the encounter turned fatal.
In the surveillance video released by the GBI, most of Brooks's encounter with the police occurs out of frame.
But when Brooks runs away from the agents, he appears in the surveillance camera image, followed by Rolfe. Both carry electric pistols.
As he follows Brooks, Rolfe is seen shifting the Taser from his right hand to his left and searching for his weapon.
At this point, Brooks turns around and appears to point the electric pistol at Rolfe, who draws his gun and shoots.
The images show that Brooks falls to the ground.
While the surveillance camera recorded the moment Brooks fell, it has no sound. But the other cameras captured the sound of three shots.
Surveillance footage shows cars occupying parking spots. Some of the drivers get out of their vehicles and record the scene.
After a few moments, the agents attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation. More officers and an ambulance arrive soon.
Body camera images also captured audio from onlookers who rebuked the officers, and one told them, "Both of their careers are definitely over, because they just shot a man for no reason."
Brooks was taken to a hospital, where he died, according to the GBI, which is investigating the incident at the request of the Atlanta Police Department.
L. Chris Stewart, an attorney for the Brooks family, said agents did not have to shoot Brooks, adding that a Taser is not a deadly weapon.
"If the agent had been a little more empathetic and a little less scared, we probably wouldn't have a dead client," said Stewart.
CNN Alta Spells, Paul P. Murphy, Eric Levenson, Christina Maxouris and Joe Sutton contributed to this report.