Race War: Atlanta - Topic

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Jun 17 2020 05:29pm

Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 17 2020 07:18pm)

oh my lord

https://allongeorgia.com/georgia-state-news/gbi-says-fulton-da-blindsided-agency-amid-investigation-in-brooks-case/
https://www.wfxg.com/story/42260904/gbi-was-unaware-of-todays-atlanta-press-conference-regarding-rayshard-brooks-shooting
https://www.facebook.com/Georgia.Bureau.of.Investigation/

Not only did the DA charge the cop despite it obviously being justified, not only did his press conference directly lie about the incident and make the rather mind boggling assertion that a suspect immediately becomes a non-threat and cannot be shot in self defense the millisecond his weapon runs out of ammo while he's shooting at police, but the DA pressed the charges with no investigation and no grand jury. The GBI wasn't involved at all, they were completely blindsided. The DA did this entirely on his own. He had no more investigation than we've done in this thread. The Georgia DA doesn't have an investigative branch, its up to the GBI.

Now if I thought it was bad Chauvin was charged before the ME report was in and cause of death established, this one is truly ridiculous because the DA didn't even talk to investigators at all.

You act surprised.

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Jun 17 2020 05:39pm

Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 17 2020 07:18pm)

bro, he watched the video on twitter. What more do you want from him?

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Jun 17 2020 05:41pm

Quote (Engage_Enemy @ Jun 17 2020 06:39pm)

bro, he watched the video on twitter. What more do you want from him?

he could at least have included some reddit URLs in his slide show and a link to a wikipedia page

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Jun 17 2020 05:43pm

Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 17 2020 07:41pm)

he could at least have included some reddit URLs in his slide show and a link to a wikipedia page

I'm sure if he wasn't busy writing settlement checks to all his coworkers he "sexually assaulted" he would have.

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Jun 17 2020 05:46pm

also jesus christ his charges don't even make sense on face value
he is charging him with felony murder, for shooting the guy. Except the "underlying felony" is shooting the guy, charged as aggravated assault. He's double charging him with the same offense under the same theory, that's not how felony murder even works. It has to be a death that occurs during the commission of a separate felony to the murder itself, otherwise you just charge them with second degree murder. This isn't even like the dumbass stretch made by Ellison in Minnesota where he tried to argue that the felony was the knee to the neck which constituted assault, which again is still a blatant misapplication of the rule. In this case its a direct charge of both the exact same action, saying it was an assault for shooting him, but also a felony murder from the assault.
where did this DA get his degree, krusty's clown college?

Georgia has an explicit merger doctrine, you cannot charge someone with multiple elements of the same crime separately, all lesser included offenses are automatically mooted upon the higher charge. But its not like he's even bothering to charge some lesser element like "reckless discharge of a firearm", he's attempting to prosecute the exact same action on the exact same theory. Shit, under this DA's legal crackpot theory, why couldn't he just charge the officer with 27 counts of the same murder? Just try all 27 cases side by side on the same facts. I mean, there's a rule saying he can't do that, but there's also a rule saying he can't do what he's doing

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Jun 17 2020 05:56pm

Ofc the guy get his murder charge, he shot someone in the back without a strong reason to do so.

District Attorney Paul Howard Howard said the police officer, Garrett Rolfe, had no justification for shooting Brooks, and aggravated the case by kicking Brook's body as he lay on the ground bleeding.

https://www.atlantafultoncountyda.org/paul-l-howard-jr/

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Jun 17 2020 06:37pm

https://decaturish.com/2020/06/atlanta-police-walkout-following-murder-charge-against-officer-who-shot-rayshard-brooks/

original site getting hugged to death, but here's a copypaste:

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Atlanta, GA — The head of Atlanta’s police union confirmed Wednesday that officers from the Atlanta Police Department in Zones 3 and 6 walked off the job Wednesday afternoon.
Vince Champion, southeast regional director of the International Brotherhood of Police officers, said that police officers had stopped answering calls midshift, in response to charges against Officer Garrett Rolfe who is accused of murdering Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta.
“The union, we would never advocate this. We wouldn’t advocate a blue flu,” Champion said. “We don’t know the numbers. Apparently we’re learning that command staff are asking outlying counties for support and aren’t getting it.”
Decaturish has calls out to public affairs officers in Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb counties for confirmation. A message to the spokesperson for Atlanta Police was not immediately returned.
Zones 3 and 6 cover south Atlanta, where Rolfe killed Rayshard Brooks after a June 12 DUI arrest turned into an altercation. Rolfe fired three bullets at Brooks as he fled with a taser in hand. Video of the shooting suggests Brooks pointed the taser at officers as he fled.
A protest the next day descended into vandalism and the arson of the Wendy’s restaurant where the shooting occurred. Police and state fire officials have offered a reward for tips leading to the arrest and prosecution of the arsonists.
Champion accused Paul Howard, Fulton county’s district attorney, of lying about what is happening in a press conference earlier today when Howard suggested that officer Devin Brosnan had turned state’s evidence and is testifying.
“The attorney for the officer said that’s not true two minutes later, and said he’s not pleading guilty and not offering state’s evidence,” Champion said.
This is a developing story and will be updated when more information is received.

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Jun 17 2020 06:43pm

Supposedly tons of Atlanta cops are bailing. 20-30 left already, which is about half a shift.

Hoping to find some big news sources to confirm it though.

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Jun 17 2020 06:54pm

Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 17 2020 08:37pm)

https://decaturish.com/2020/06/atlanta-police-walkout-following-murder-charge-against-officer-who-shot-rayshard-brooks/

original site getting hugged to death, but here's a copypaste:

Good. What these people fail to realize is cops and "the law" are the only thing keeping vigilantes inside. Once the cops are gone, "riots, looting, and arson" are going to be the least of their worries.

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Jun 17 2020 07:01pm

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/attorney-for-2nd-cop-in-rayshard-brooks-case-says-client-didnt-agree-to-be-states-witness/

holy fuck
every single word out of the DA's mouth at that press conference was a lie

"Don Samuel, a lawyer for secondary defendant Devin Brosnan, said early Wednesday evening that his client has not agreed to be a state’s witness, contrary to a press conference from Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard earlier in the afternoon."

what did we actually witness on TV? Did Paul Howard just do several lines of coke before going on the air and making up everything he said on the spot, or what
The GBI wasn't consulted. The legal charges are erroneous and cannot be filed in Georgia and blatantly violate the merger doctrine. He claimed the other cop as a agreeing to be a prosecution witness without his agreement. Every description he gave of the encounter was completely backwards and contradicted by the public video evidence. He made a batshit insane claim that getting fired at by someone who runs out at ammo at the split second you return fire makes a shooting murder instead of self-defense. And the DA is facing felony fraud investigation and sexual misconduct

Oh, and it gets better:
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1273379778423189505

The same DA Paul Howard just two weeks ago brought charges against other police officers for aggravated assault for using tasers on police officers, arguing that tasers are deadly weapons.
So he contradicted his own legal argument in this case, in which he argues that tasers aren't deadly weapons and thus don't justify lethal force.
And he's on fucking video saying it in both instances.

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And charged with aggravated assault of Ms Pilgrim. This is for pointing a taser at Ms. Pilgrim and as many of you know, under Georgia law a taser is considered a deadly weapon, under Georgia law.
-Paul Howard, two weeks ago

I cannot wrap my head around what led up to that press conference. What the actual fuck is going on.
I have a feel like we're going to find out that this DA is actually a con-man who fabricated his diploma or something.

This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 17 2020 07:06pm

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