Surrounded by more than a dozen supporters from the group The People's Uprising, the widow of Rayshard Brooks described the moment she learned Fulton County District Attorney Fanni Willis would not seek to prosecute the officer who killed Brooks on June 12, 2020.
The Atlanta Police Department responds to reversal of officers termination
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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Investigator Mark Gardner and Inv. Ivory Streeter.
ATLANTA - The Atlanta Police Department is responding to the Atlanta Civil Service Board’s decision to reverse the terminations of two officers who were fired in May for the arrest of two college students in Downtown Atlanta for violating a citywide curfew.
Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner were fired the day after they were seen on live television broadcast pulling a Spelman College student and Morehouse College student from a car in downtown Atlanta on May 30. The incident happened during the second night of protests over the death of George Floyd and the first night Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms implemented an executive order calling for a 9 p.m. citywide curfew.
Attorney: College student pulled from car stunned by Atlanta officers reinstatement
By FOX 5 Digital Team
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Investigator Mark Gardner and Inv. Ivory Streeter.
ATLANTA - The attorney of one of two Atlanta college students pulled from a car in downtown Atlanta during protests over the death of Georgia Floyd says they were stunned and saddened to learn that the termination of two officers involved in the arrests had been reversed.
Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner were fired the day after they were seen on live television broadcast pulling a Spelman College student and Morehouse College student from a car in downtown Atlanta on May 30. The incident happened during the second night of protests over the death of George Floyd and the first night Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms implemented an executive order calling for a 9 p.m. citywide curfew.
Atlanta Civil Service Board reverse police officers terminations
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
Published
Investigator Mark Gardner and Inv. Ivory Streeter.
ATLANTA - The City of Atlanta Civil Service Board reversed the terminations of two officers who were fired in May for the arrest of two college students in Downtown Atlanta for violating a citywide curfew.
Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner were fired the day after they were seen on live television broadcast pulling a Spelman College student and Morehouse College student from a car in downtown Atlanta on May 30. The incident happened during the second night of protests over the death of George Floyd and the first night Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms implemented an executive order calling for a 9 p.m. citywide curfew.
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The new prosecutor in Georgia’s most populous county is removing her office from the prosecution of the police officer who shot and killed
Rayshard Brooks last summer in Atlanta, citing concerns about her predecessor’s actions.
Fulton County District Attorney
Fani Willis sent a letter dated Monday to state Attorney General
Chris Carr asking that the cases against the two officers in the Brooks shooting and six officers in another high-profile use-of-force case be handled by another prosecutor.
Former Fulton County District Attorney
Paul Howard announced charges, including felony murder against former Atlanta police officer
Garrett Rolfe, less than a week after Brooks’ death. A second officer was charged with aggravated assault and violating his oath.