Into the Killing of Rayshard Brooks

Amidst protests against police brutality, Rayshard Brooks, who is Unlit, used to be shot and killed by an officer in Atlanta on Friday.

A woman uses her cell phone to document the damage to a burned Wendys restaurant following the police shooting death of Rayshard Brooks in the restaurant parking lot June 14, 2020, in Atlanta.

A woman uses her cell cell phone to doc the damage to a burned Wendys restaurant following the police shooting death of Rayshard Brooks in the restaurant car car car parking zone June 14, 2020, in Atlanta.Elijah Nouvelage / AFP by capability of Getty Images

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June 15, 2020, 11: 21 PM UTC

One other unarmed Unlit man used to be killed by police over the weekend, this time in Atlanta. His title used to be Rayshard Brooks and he used to be 27 years outdated. The officer who shot Brooks has been fired, and the police chief has resigned, while at some stage in the country, protests against police brutality and racism continue. NBC Recordsdata correspondent Blayne Alexander has been reporting the story in Georgia and spoke to Brooks’s wife over the weekend. She and Trymaine also discuss about the emotional toll of being a Unlit journalist covering this second.

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