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Multiple people, including child, shot in East Atlanta

  • By: Zachary Hansen/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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  • Jul 9
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A 9-year-old is among three people who were shot in East Atlanta on Wednesday night, police said. The shooting took place on Flat Shoals Avenue near its intersection with Glenwood Avenue, according to Atlanta police. Officers responded to the scene a little after 9:30 p.m., and they initially found one gunshot victim. The victim, a

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Latest police shooting intensifies calls for police reform

  • By: Christian Boone/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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  • Jun 15
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Two days after an Atlanta police officer shot and killed a fleeing suspect, the repercussions are still being assessed. Already a life has been lost. Careers, destroyed. Criminal charges against the officer may follow. And the city’s approach to law enforcement could be dramatically altered. The debate over police use of force now focuses on

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Autopsy finds Rayshard Brooks died of gunshot wounds of the back

  • By: Ty Tagami
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  • Jun 14
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Rayshard Brooks, the black man shot by Atlanta police outside a Wendy’s in the city’s Southside Friday night, suffered organ damage and blood loss from two gunshot wounds, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Sunday after completing an autopsy. “His cause of death: gunshot wounds of the back,” an investigator from the medical examiner’s office

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Who was Rayshard Brooks?

  • By: Helena Oliviero
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  • Jun 14
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Rayshard Brooks was shot late Friday by a police officer outside a Wendy’s restaurant on the city’s southside.  Brooks, an African-American, was shot in the back and killed at a downtown Wendy’s restaurant by an Atlanta police officer, who is white. APD was called to the scene to check on Brooks, who had fallen asleep

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Prominent voices react to Rayshard Brooks death

  • By: Courtney Kueppers/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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  • Jun 14
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In Atlanta, protests continued throughout the day and night on Saturday following the death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks. Brooks was shot and killed Friday night at a Wendy’s by an Atlanta police officer.  The incident prompted Erika Shields to step aside as Atlanta Police Chief and the officer who shot Brooks, Garrett Rolfe, to be fired.

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Atlanta officer who killed Rayshard Brooks identified

  • By: Christian Boone/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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  • Jun 14
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Video footage released by the Atlanta Police Department show officers talking for nearly half an hour with Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot. The encounter would end with Brooks fatally shot. Hours later came the announcement that the city’s police chief had stepped aside and that the officer who shot Brooks had been fired.

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Rayshard Brooks shooting roils Atlanta

  • By: J. Scott Trubey/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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  • Jun 14
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A white Atlanta police officer fatally shot an African American father of several young children late Friday night following a struggle outside a Wendy’s restaurant on the city’s southside, sparking calls for reform and demonstrations that led to vandalism and arrests.  The shooting further inflamed tensions over police use of force and racial injustice that

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Man dies after being shot by Atlanta police at Wendy’s drive-thru

  • By: Shaddi Abusaid/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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  • Jun 13
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A 27-year-old man was shot and killed by Atlanta police Friday evening during a struggle in a Wendy’s drive-thru line that was captured on video. By Saturday afternoon, Police Chief Erika Shields had resigned her position and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms called for the officer who fired the fatal shots to be terminated.  RELATED: Erika

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George Floyd Death in Police Custody

  • By: marciusjosephlaw
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  • Jun 3
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On May 25, Minneapolis police officers arrested George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, after a deli employee called 911, accusing him of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Seventeen minutes after the first squad car arrived at the scene, Mr. Floyd was unconscious and pinned beneath three police officers, showing no signs of life. By combining videos

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Can Filing Bankruptcy Affect My Immigration Status?

  • By: marciusjosephlaw
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  • Jun 3
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Many people come to the United States in search of the American Dream. While hard work and discipline often pay off, there’s never a guarantee that life will be easy. It can be expensive to start a new life, between housing, education, and job supplies, and living in a new culture can bring some unexpected

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