Funeral arrangements for Rayshard Brooks have been set for next week in Atlanta. Brooks was killed Friday in a fatal shooting by two Atlanta police officers.
Both officers involved in the case turned themselves in and were booked in Fulton County jail Thursday.
Former officer Garrett Rolfe, accused of felony murder and 10 other charges, surrendered in the afternoon. “He is confident that when all of the evidence is heard, Officer Rolfe will be vindicated,” his lawyer, Lance LoRusso, said in a statement.
Officer Devin Brosnan, who was charged with aggravated assault and other lesser counts, came in at 10:30 a.m. and was released on bond two hours later, according to his lawyer, Don Samuel. In an interview, Brosnan described Brooks as “friendly” before the shooting.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump took credit for widespread recognition of Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery.
“I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal. “It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it.”
A closer look at some recent developments:
The two men who witnessed Rayshard Brooks’ shooting spoke publicly Thursday about what they saw. “I don’t know where to start,” said Michael Perkins, one of the men who was present outside the Wendy’s in Atlanta where Brooks was shot. “I witnessed a murder. I almost got killed myself.”
Police in Portland, Oregon, say they cleared an area in the city’s Pearl District early Thursday where demonstrators tried to set up an “autonomous zone” similar to what protesters have enacted in Seattle.
Officials in Oakland, California, launched a hate crime investigation after finding several nooses on trees at a city park. The man who installed them said it was simply a “fun” exercise set-up.
Terron Jammal Boone, the half-brother of Robert Fuller, a Black man found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, California, was fatally shot by police Wednesday, according to a family attorney.
