{"id":43201,"date":"2020-06-17T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43201"},"modified":"2020-06-17T20:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:23:29","slug":"ex-cop-faces-some-serious-prison-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43201","title":{"rendered":"Ex-cop faces some serious prison time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=RayshardBrooks%20%23GarrettRolfe%20%23Atlantacops&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/brooks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43202\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/brooks-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/brooks-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/brooks-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/brooks.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen the video. You have, too. We&#8217;ve all seen it. The video is stomach-churning and heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>Rayshard Brooks got stopped by Atlanta police. They tested his sobriety after finding him asleep in the drive-through lane at a Wendy&#8217;s restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>He took a Breathalyzer test and came up slightly inebriated. He offered to <em>walk<\/em> to his sister&#8217;s house just a few blocks away. The cops sought to handcuff him instead. Brooks resisted; he wrestled a Taser stun gun from one of the cops; <em>he ran away.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cop &#8212; Garrett Rolfe &#8212; shot him in the back &#8230; <em>twice<\/em> while he was fleeing, <em>running for his life<\/em>. Brooks died later in a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Now the cop is charged with felony murder. This looks like a legitimate accusation to level at the former officer.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-cop is white; Rayshard Brooks was black. It is another case in a distressingly long line of cases involving white police employing the heavy hand of the law on a young African-American. To think, as well, that this case happened while the nation is still reeling from the George Floyd case in Minneapolis, where another white officer snuffed the life out of Floyd, a black man who allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit bill.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, my goodness. When will we learn? Ever?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=RayshardBrooks%20%23GarrettRolfe%20%23Atlantacops&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen the video. You have, too. We&#8217;ve all seen it. The video is stomach-churning and heartbreaking. Rayshard Brooks got stopped by Atlanta police. They tested his sobriety after finding him asleep in the drive-through lane at a Wendy&#8217;s restaurant. He took a Breathalyzer test and came up slightly inebriated. 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