Rayshard Brooks

The Atlanta City Council has approved a $1 million settlement payment for the family of Rayshard Brooks, who was shot and killed by a police officer.

Two white Atlanta police officers who clashed with Rayshard Brooks acted reasonably during the 2020 encounter that ended with the 27-year-old Black man’s fatal shooting, a specially appointed prosecutor said Tuesday in announcing his decision not to pursue charges against them. Officer Garrett Rolfe, who shot and killed Brooks in June 2020, and Officer Devin Brosnan faced a “quickly evolving”…

The firing of the former Atlanta police officer who’s charged with murder in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks has been reversed

The former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks is suing the mayor and interim police chief, saying his firing violated his constitutional rights and the city code

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency and authorized the activation of National Guard troops after a weekend of violence where an 8-year-old girl and four others were killed

Police say an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed in Atlanta on the Fourth of July after at least two people in a crowd opened fire on a car she was in.

Authorities have arrested two more people on suspicion of arson in the burning of an Atlanta Wendy’s restaurant where a police officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks.

Each year, hundreds of people die after encounters with the police.

A judge says the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks can be free on bond while his case is pending

A woman charged with arson in the burning of a fast food restaurant in the wake of Rayshard Brooks’ killing was granted bond Wednesday

Family and friends gathered to mourn the death of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man shot by police outside a fast-food restaurant in Atlanta.

Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, taking part in a funeral rich with historical echoes and filled with a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too many times before.

Hundreds of people gathered Monday afternoon outside the Massachusetts State House after a march in honor of Rayshard Brooks, who was shot and killed by a police officer in Atlanta. Demonstrators started their march at the Reggie Lewis Center at Roxbury Community College. Organizers say they plan on continuing to take action until they see change. Brooks was fatally shot…

Mourners are lining up to pay their respects to Rayshard Brooks in a public viewing at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

A newspaper report says the former Atlanta police officer charged with felony murder  in the fatal shooting of an African American man was involved in another shooting five years ago that left a man with a punctured lung

Investigators say they have issued an arrest warrant for a woman in the burning of a Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta during protests over the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks

A judge on Friday denied bond for the former Atlanta police officer who has been charged with felony murder and other crimes after fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks in the back after Brooks fired a stun gun in his direction. Judge Jeffrey Frazier found probable cause exists to detain Garrett Rolfe for the slaying of Rayshard Brooks outside a Wendy’s...

A Confederate monument has been removed by crane from a town square near Atlanta amid cheers from the watching crowd

Atlanta police officers have called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man in the back

Atlanta police officers charged in fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks; Brooks’ family attorney says the charges are only the beginning.