Revealed: officer who killed Rayshard Brooks accused of covering up 2015 shooting
(The Guardian)
Rolfe shot Brooks twice in the back as Brooks ran away after a scuffle with officers when they attempted to arrest him.
[Intent of shooting: apprehension]
In August 2015, Rolfe and two other officers opened fire on Jackie Jermaine Harris, who they chased after he was caught driving a stolen truck...
[Intent of shooting: apprehension]
However, the shooting was not reported by the police involved. Harris, like Brooks, is African American.
Harris rammed a police vehicle and officers shot at him several times inside the truck, striking Harris once and collapsing his lung...
Judge Doris L Downs, during a 2016 court hearing, called the case a “disaster” and said “it’s the wildest case I’ve seen in my 34 years here.”
Downs said she was so troubled by officers failing to report the shooting that she wanted the matter investigated.
“None of the police put in the report that they shot the man – none of them. And they sent him to Grady [Memorial Hospital] with collapsed lungs and everything, and the report doesn’t mention it,” Downs said.
...
“What the police did was wrong, and they will have to answer for what they did.”-Judge Downs
[Well, Rolfe didn't.]
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Rolfe was apparently not disciplined, according to a personnel file released by Atlanta police on Tuesday, which listed the 2015 incident only as a “firearm discharge” but did not say how the department addressed the incident.
[The old firearm-discharge ploy, huh? Like the old I-redirected-him-to-the-ground ploy, huh?]
“Being shot in the back and ultimately having your lung collapse is something more than an injury that was caused during the incident.”-Harris’s attorney Serena Nunn
[Oh. Same as in the Brooks killing. Oh my.]
The [Atlanta police] department disciplined Rolfe for three other incidents [in his six year career], including once for “use of force” involving a firearm, a year after the Harris shooting.
[Oh my goodness]
[Well, Rolfe didn't.]
...
Rolfe was apparently not disciplined, according to a personnel file released by Atlanta police on Tuesday, which listed the 2015 incident only as a “firearm discharge” but did not say how the department addressed the incident.
[The old firearm-discharge ploy, huh? Like the old I-redirected-him-to-the-ground ploy, huh?]
“Being shot in the back and ultimately having your lung collapse is something more than an injury that was caused during the incident.”-Harris’s attorney Serena Nunn
[Oh. Same as in the Brooks killing. Oh my.]
The [Atlanta police] department disciplined Rolfe for three other incidents [in his six year career], including once for “use of force” involving a firearm, a year after the Harris shooting.
[Oh my goodness]
Interesting context, no? Si. Oh Lord. Bad cop there, Garrett Rolfe, just a bad cop.