Political limbo for two police excessive force cases …
This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe, left, in the parking lot of a Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta on June 12. (Atlanta Police Department via AP)
Two high-profile cases of Atlanta police using excessive force this past summer are in political limbo, according to lawyers for the victims and their families. WABE’s Lisa Hagen reported those attorneys met with the new Fulton County district attorney Tuesday.
Lawyers for two college students pulled out of their car and tased by Atlanta police during summer protests say they want a special prosecutor on the case. So did lawyers for the family of Rayshard Brooks, who Atlanta Police Department officers fatally shot in a Wendy’s parking lot in June.
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Georgia s Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron may keep his job after all.
The Board of Registration and Elections voted on Tuesday to fire Barron, who has held the post since 2013, after a turbulent 2020 general election and two U.S. Senate runoff contests, but on Wednesday, county commissioners failed to affirm a recommendation to terminate him, which stretches the debate into next month.
“Barron has received wide praise from Republicans and Democrats, for putting in place the most extensive expansion of voting- and voter-access in Georgia history during the November Presidential and January U.S. Senate Runoff elections,” Commissioner Khadijah Abdur-Rahman said in a statement.
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