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In Prosecuting Police, Atlanta DA Has Contradictory Stance on Taser's Deadliness, Defense Says
A Fulton County Superior Court judge on Tuesday set a $500,000 bond for former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe.
By R. Robin McDonald | June 30, 2020 at 06:39 PM
Defense lawyers who secured a $500,000 bond Tuesday for the fired Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks said the shooting was justified based on an earlier determination by District Attorney Paul Howard that a taser is a deadly weapon.
The defense also criticized Howard during Tuesday’s hearing for previously making two stunning allegations when announcing felony charges against officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Bronson at June 17 news conference. Rolfe attorney Noah Pines said his client never kicked Brooks as he lay dying on the pavement and never uttered the phrase, “I got him,” after shooting Brooks twice in the back, as Howard claimed.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jane Barwick set bond on Rolfe who faces charges including felony murder, aggravated assault, criminal damage to property, violating his oath of office, and failing to render medical aid. Prosecutors contend that while both officers did render medical aid to Brooks, they waited about two minutes before doing so.
At the DA’s request, Rolfe has been held without bond since the charges were filed.
Brosnan, who is free on a $50,000 signature bond, also faces multiple felony charges, including aggravated assault, violating his oath of office, and failure to render medical aid.
But the legal debate at the heart of the charges against the two officers over whether or not the deadly shooting was justified that surfaced at Rolfe’s bond hearing also highlight contradictory positions that Howard has taken on whether a taser is a deadly weapon in pursuing felony charges against a total of eight Atlanta police officers since George Floyd was asphyxiated by Minneapolis police in May.
Pines cited a felony warrant that Howard’s investigator obtained against one of six police officers currently facing aggravated assault and other felony charges in a case that sprang from demonstrations in Atlanta following Floyd’s death.
Howard filed multiple felonies against the officers after two college students—Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim—were tasered and dragged from their car during demonstrations in downtown Atlanta on May 30 as police sought to enforce a curfew. Young also suffered a broken wrist and a gash that required stitches, and both students were handcuffed for hours in a police van while being denied protective masks. The warrant justified the felony charges in those cases by describing the taser as a deadly weapon.
But in announcing charges against Rolfe and Brosnan, Howard said the taser Brooks took from Brosnan was inoperative because it had already been fired twice and so posed no threat to the officers.
Executive Assistant DA Clint Rucker fought throughout the hearing to prevent Rolfe’s release, calling the late-night shooting that began as a report of a man passed out in his car in a fast-food drive-thru “excessive” and “unnecessary.”
Rucker said Brooks was not an immediate threat to Rolfe because he was running away, and that the shooting was unjustified—an argument he sought to use to question Rolfe’s good character and whether he could be trusted not to flee if free on bond.
(too long, but informative if you read on)
https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2020/06/30/in-prosecuting-police-atlanta-da-has-contradictory-stance-on-tasers-deadliness-defense-says/?slreturn=20200530192742
lookout Tennessee
Mayor Coppinger considering making masks in public mandatory
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn (WDEF) –
Coronavirus cases continue to rise with over 43,000 in the state of Tennessee and over 2,400 in Hamilton County.
Many states are now making masks mandatory in public due to the rise in cases, will Tennessee do the same?
Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger says he is now considering the mandate for the county.
“It’s going to be around for a long time. We have to learn to coexist with the virus and as a result of that one of the things we know that helps is masks. That’s why consideration is being given right now to mandating the use of masks,” says Mayor Coppinger.
Mayor Andy Berke says even though Governor Bill Lee took away the city’s power to mandate a mask law, he knows something needs to be done since voluntary mask wearing isn’t working.
An Environmental Health and Safety Lawyer says wearing a mask is one of the easiest ways you can save lives.
“It’s such a non intrusive simple thing to do. It doesn’t hurt. You don’t have to get poked or probed,” says Michael Mallen, Environmental Health and Safety Lawyer.
City Officials say whatever the decision is on the mandating of masks , it’s not about politics it’s strictly about the safety of others.
“It’s about what can we do to minimize the spread in our community and is it the right decision and when will it be the right decision? One of the things I truly believe in is that people fought and died for us to have those liberties that we have. I am totally one hundred percent supportive of people being able to make their own choices. However, we’re looking at another situation where your behavior can impact somebody else negatively. It can even cost them their life,” says Mayor Coppinger.
https://wdef.com/2020/06/30/mayor-coppinger-considering-making-masks-public-mandatory/
On my list to buy. Thanks, anon!
Putin, Trump and Biden
By The Editorial Board June 30, 2020 7:18 pm ET
Would Joe really be tougher against Russia? He wasn’t in the past.
It is going to be something to behold, on Jan. 21, 2021, when President Biden takes revenge on Russia for paying the Taliban to kill Americans in Afghanistan. He’ll task the CIA with killing the Russian agents behind the bounties, send lethal aid to Ukraine to defend itself against Russian aggression, work with allies to oust Russia and Cuba from Venezuela, withdraw from the arms deals Russia is violating, and ratchet up sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany.
Of course Mr. Biden will do none of that,…
(firewall…)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-trump-and-biden-11593559104
Don't quit before the miracle.
They called themselves Night Shift in the Catalog for this bread, though. So isn't it up to them to call themselves what they want? Get with the progressive program! They can identify as they wish!
Anons, I can't find any articles on the Teen Vogue editor criticizing New York Magazine for using a cover photo of BLM that was taken by a white photographer. Has anyone else heard about or seen that story today? I heard it on the radio, I think it was Mike Gallagher's show but there is no link or reference to it on his site. Have searched several ways. Probably have to try Twitter search but if you know, thanks in advance.
Gross stuff, wow.
Tucker: Make America Fair Again
MAFA! (Mafia??)
This is what we're up against in terms of their narrative: American Must Change
Charly Palmer is Latest Artist Tapped to Illustrate Cover of Time Magazine, Providing Image for ‘America Must Change’ Issue
MAINSTREAM INSTITUTIONS have responded in a variety of ways to the nationwide focus on race, racial justice, and policing. Time magazine’s reaction has been to pair its news coverage of the unfolding events with covers by African American artists. Charly Palmer is the latest tapped for the assignment.
In the wake of protests following the murder by police of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., and the killing of Ahmaud Arbery at the hands of white vigilantes in Georgia, Time has turned to artist Titus Kaphar to visualize the pain of black mothers losing their children (June 15), and photographer Devin Allen, who brought attention to the black transgender community, which has been vocal in the protests (June 22/June 29).
https://www.culturetype.com/2020/06/30/charly-palmer-is-latest-artist-tapped-to-illustrate-cover-of-time-magazine-providing-image-for-america-must-change-issue/
City Officials are apologizing for police: Well, why bother? It's not enough!
‘We don’t accept their apology, we want action!’
After 27 days of nonstop protests against police brutality in Philadelphia, city officials finally apologized for their decision to let police and SWAT units use tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets on protesters June 1. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw held a joint press conference June 25, where they admitted the use of force against people demonstrating on I-676 was “unjustifiable.” Both claimed they changed their minds about the police attacks on protesters based on videos that surfaced since the June 1 demonstration.
After repeatedly hurling racist slurs at a Black photographer covering the protest, one white man punched him in the face as police did nothing. Attorney Kevin Mincey, who represents some of the BLM protesters who were pepper-sprayed on June 1, stated, “If there was a Black Lives Matter protest where all the participants were carrying baseball bats, hammers and other makeshift weapons, that protest wouldn’t make it 10 feet down the street before police stopped them.” (Philly.com, June 26)
https://www.workers.org/2020/06/49744/
It's the same with Antifa. When you are "anti" something it doesn't tell anyone what you are "pro" about. What do they believe? I can honestly say I am anti-fascist. I don't want to live in a fascist country. But what I'm "pro" is much more telling about me. When people say they are "anti" you have to ask what they are "pro" or it doesn't give you any indication of who they are.