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According to records released by Atlanta police, officer Garrett Rolfe who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks last week at an Atlanta Wendy’s had several citizen complaints against him prior to the incident.
According to the records, Rolfe’s citizen complaints date back to 2015.
All incidents have notes that no action was taken.
Records show a 2016 use of force complaint resulted in a written reprimand the following year.
Atlanta police have also released the 911 call from Brooks’ fatal shooting Friday night.
In the call, a Wendy’s employee told the operator she thought a man parked in the drive-thru was drunk in his vehicle causing other cars to drive around him.
She told the operator she went to his window and asked him to move.
The employee described Brooks’ car and was asked if Brooks’ was black the operator, in which she responded he was.
The operator asked if Brooks had a weapon and the employee responded “no” and that she just thought he was drunk.
Shortly after officers were sent to the scene.
Rolfe was fired from the police department a day after Brooks’ killing.
The other officer on the scene, Devin Brosnan, was placed on administrative leave.
There is also newly released evidence from Minneapolis police showing many people raised red flags early in the George Floyd case.
One dispatcher watched the incident play out on surveillance cameras.
She alerted a supervisor the officers were using force that may have not been called for.
The time stamp on that recording was 8:30 p.m. which is about the time Floyd was being transported by ambulance to the hospital.
Police also released two additional 911 transcripts.
In one an off-duty firefighter who witnessed the incident tells a dispatcher police did not take Floyd’s pulse or try to save him before indicating they killed him.
That caller indicates he reported the incident on his phone.
Another unidentified caller told a dispatcher he watched police kill a man who was not resisting arrest.
Posted – 6.16.20