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		</div><p>Atlanta police video released on Sunday showed a seemingly routine sobriety check outside a Wendy’s restaurant that quickly spun out of control and ended in gunfire.</p>
<p>The killing of 27-year-old black man Rayshard Brooks in an encounter with two white officers late on Friday rekindled fiery protests in Atlanta and prompted the police chief’s resignation.</p>
<p>Police said the department terminated Officer Garrett Rolfe, who fired the fatal shots, and officer Devin Brosnan was placed on administrative duty.</p>
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<p>Mr Rolfe had worked for the department since October 2013 and Mr Brosnan since September 2018.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, authorities announced a $10,000 reward for information finding those responsible for setting fire to the Wendy’s restaurant at the shooting scene.</p>
<p>Flames gutted the restaurant late on Saturday after demonstrations grew turbulent. The protests prompted 36 arrests.</p>
<p>More than 100 people, some sporting umbrellas and rain gear after on-and-off rain, protested peacefully at the site on Sunday evening.</p>
<p>Police blocked some side streets, slowing traffic in the area as people held up signs.</p>
<p>The two officers’ body cameras and the dash-mounted cameras in their patrol cars showed they spent more than 40 minutes peacefully questioning Brooks.</p>
<p>The fighting erupted when they tried to handcuff him.</p>
<p>Andy Harvey, chief of police of Ennis, Texas, who has written books and developed training on community policing, said such moments can turn in a split second.</p>
<p>“<i>The moment you put your hands on someone is when someone will decide whether to comply or resist</i>,” Mr Harvey said.</p>
<p>“<i>That’s what happened in Atlanta</i>.”</p>
<p>The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) will present the findings of its investigation to prosecutors.</p>
<p>Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said in a statement he hopes to reach a decision by midweek on whether to bring charges against the officers.</p>
<p>The officers were called late on Friday over complaints of a car blocking the restaurant’s drive-thru lane.</p>
<p>Mr Brosnan arrived first and found Brooks alone in the car, apparently asleep.<br />
Brooks agreed to move the car, showed his license, and Mr Rolfe arrived minutes later to conduct a sobriety check.</p>
<p>“<i>I know you’re just doing your job</i>,” Brooks says on video after consenting to a breath test.</p>
<p>He mentions celebrating his daughter’s birthday and says: “<i>I just had a few drinks, that’s all.</i>”</p>
<p>Mr Rolfe does not tell Brooks the results though his body camera recorded a digital readout of 0.108 — higher than the 0.08-gram blood alcohol content considered too intoxicated to drive in Georgia.</p>
<p>“<i>All right, I think you’ve had too much to drink to be driving,</i>” Mr Rolfe tells Brooks. “<i>Put your hands behind your back</i>.”</p>
<p>The video shows each officer take hold of one of Brooks’ wrists as Mr Rolfe tries to handcuff him.</p>
<p>Brooks tries to run and the officers take him to the ground.</p>
<p>“<i>Stop fighting!</i>” one officer yells.</p>
<p>As Brooks fights to stand, Mr Brosnan presses a Taser to his leg and threatens to stun him.</p>
<p>Brooks grabs the Taser and pulls it away. He struggles to his feet, the Taser in his hand, and starts running.</p>
<p>Mr Rolfe fires his Taser and a yelp can be heard above the weapon’s electric crackle.</p>
<p>He runs after Brooks, and seconds later three gunshots sound.</p>
<p>Both officers’ body cameras were knocked to the ground in the struggle, and none of the four police cameras captured the shooting. Footage released from a Wendy’s security camera showed Brooks turn and point an object in his hand at one of the officers, who was steps behind him. The officer draws his gun and fires.</p>
<p>“<i>As I pursued him, he turned and started firing the Taser at me</i>,” Rolfe told a supervisor after the shooting in a videotaped conversation. “<i>…He definitely did shoot it at me at least once.</i>”</p>
<p>GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles said she could not confirm whether Brooks fired the Taser.</p>
<p>Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said on Saturday she does not believe the shooting was justified.</p>
<p>Police Chief Erika Shields, who joined the department as a beat officer in 1995, resigned.</p>
<p>Brooks’ death inflamed raw emotions in Atlanta and across the US following the May 25 police custody killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.</p>
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