ATLANTA
The former Atlanta police officer who faces felony murder charges for fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks in the back after he resisted arrest and grabbed an officer’s taser was reinstated Wednesday after the Atlanta Civil Service Board ruled that the city wrongly terminated him.
Garrett Rolfe, a white officer who faces 11 charges including multiple counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and violation of oath by an officer, was terminated abruptly by the city within 24 hours of shooting Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, in June.
Rolfe will not go back on his beat. According to the Atlanta Police Department, he will remain on administrative leave until the criminal charges are resolved. His reinstatement, which comes two weeks after a jury found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, guilty of murdering George Floyd, who was Black, does not affect the criminal trial.
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The firing of the former Atlanta police officer who s charged with murder in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks has been reversed.
Garrett Rolfe was fired in June, a day after he shot Brooks in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. The Atlanta Civil Service Board on Wednesday released its decision on Rolfe s appeal of his firing. Due to the City’s failure to comply with several provisions of the Code and the information received during witnesses’ testimony, the Board concludes the Appellant was not afforded his right to due process, the board said in its decision, according to news outlets. Therefore, the Board grants the Appeal of Garrett Rolfe and revokes his dismissal as an employee of the APD.
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