![]() ![]() Atlanta officer out on bond: Atlanta police officer Devin Brosnan, one of the officers at the scene of Brooks' death, bonded out of jail on Thursday afternoon. He made no comments as he left the Fulton County Jail.He faces a felony murder charge for Brooks' death. Rolfe, 27, the former officer who shot Brooks, is facing a total of 11 counts. Former officer turns himself in: Former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe has turned himself in to authorities, according to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department.Officer Devin Brosnan, who is currently on administrative duty, faces three charges including aggravated assault. ![]() On Wednesday: Howard announced the charges filed against the police officers involved in the shooting of Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot in Atlanta.įormer officer Garrett Rolfe is facing 11 charges including felony murder. "If a police officer is involved with misconduct, we're going to go forward with it. But if the police officer is not involved in misconduct, we want to, with the same attitude, tell the community that the officers were right," Howard added. Howard said he and his office will "continue to do what we think is right." "The threats seem to be racially-based. What I was saying is if you look historically at the deaths that I referred to earlier, the deaths that we've seen recently, there's certainly a racial connection. That same connection is evident in some of the threats that I received. I can say to those people who are threatening me in my office, we won't be intimidated," Howard told CNN Thursday afternoon. The California Attorney General's office is investigating the death of a 24-year-old black man who was found hanging from a tree in northern Los Angeles County. "I've got to tell you it doesn't help circumstances. Everyone's on edge. There are a lot of people who are very frightened. A lot of people are courageous and peacefully protesting. To see these things just doesn't help," he told CNN on Thursday. The FBI is investigating the effigy as a hate crime, Schaaf said.Ĭalifornia Attorney General Xavier Becerra weighed in on the incident, calling it "chilling." Some context: The effigy was found a day after a hate crime investigation was opened into nooses found on trees in Oakland, California, according to police. Police officers found "material stuffed in the shape of a human body with a rope tied around the torso and neck, laying on the ground next to a tree with an American flag lying next to it," the statement said. The resident removed the effigy from the tree and called police, the statement said. The effigy was found hanging in a tree near Lake Merritt on Thursday morning by a resident, according to a statement from the Oakland Police Department. “That’s why I am proposing that the SEC not be allowed to do business in the great State of Mississippi until it changes its logo to the flag of the Confederacy to honor its roots and those who fought and died to make the conference what it is today.Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called the effigy found near Lake Merritt “a deliberate and vile attempt to traumatize and divide Oaklanders.” “We all know that the SEC is what the Confederacy was always designed to become: successful and powerful and the pride of all Southern men and women,” said Rep. There is currently another bill, HB 1709, that proposes that the Southeastern Conference change its logo to the Confederate flag. Both the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State are full members of the SEC and many of the state’s residents take great pride in belonging to perhaps the greatest conference in college football, despite the struggles of the Mississippi schools themselves.īut HB 1723 faces hurdles to getting passed - and not just from those who want to keep the Confederate flag as part of the state’s flag. McGraw said that House Bill 1723, titled “The Let’s SEC the Confederacy Act,” would put the logo of the Southeastern Conference in the top-left corner of the state flag where the stars and bars currently exist. ![]()
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