This was not the first time a Black man was killed in a police interaction that began with falling asleep in a parked car. Seconds later he is lying on the ground motionless with three bullets inside him.
Brooks grabs the officer’s Taser, begins running away, and turns to fire it. The officer attempts to handcuff Brooks, Brooks resists, and a physical struggle ensues. But the officer insists he take a field sobriety test, revealing that Brooks had a blood alcohol level slightly above the legal limit. Brooks repeatedly asks to leave his car parked and walk to his sister’s home, which he says is nearby. Video evidence shows the interaction starts out calm.
Atlanta police officers were called to the scene after receiving a complaint that Brooks was sleeping in his vehicle, which was blocking the drive-through and forcing other cars to drive around it. On the night of Friday, June 12, a police officer shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, outside an Atlanta Wendy’s drive-through.
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