Regardless of what you think about the shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, there are many other stories from this incident that go unreported by the media. The fact that Brooks stole a cop’s taser gun and pointed it at them before the shooting is rarely mentioned by the media. Now it turns out the second officer (not the one who fired the gun) Devin Brosnan suffered concussion and other injuries during altercation with Rayshard Brooks. Am I still supposed to believe that neither of these two Atlanta police officer feared for their lives when Brooks went went on a drunken stupor?
| Atlanta police officer Devin Brosnan suffered concussion and other injuries during altercation with Rayshard Brooks |
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I think we can all agree that we wish there was another way to have resolved this incident, without the death of Rayshare Brooks. But actions have consequences. This isn’t a George Floyd situation.
Atlanta police officer Devin Brosnan, one of the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks, suffered a concussion and other injuries during the altercation with the 27-year-old, the officer’s attorney revealed during a Wednesday discussion with CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
“Devin ends up taking out his Taser and yelling at him to ‘stop fighting, stop fighting,’” said Don Samuel, an attorney for Brosnan. “Mr. Brooks grabbed the Taser from him and shoots … Devin gets shot with the Taser.”
At that point, Brosnan fell over, landed on the pavement, and got a concussion, Samuel explained, adding that prosecutors in the case did not examine the medical records of the officer.
Brosnan and former officer Garrett Rolfe responded to incident in a Wendy’s parking lot on Friday, leading to the deadly altercation with Brooks, who resisted arrest after failing a field sobriety test, leading to a struggle with both officers. During the altercation, Brooks obtained an officer’s taser and attempted to flee the scene, which led to a chase.