Into the Killing of Rayshard Brooks

Into America

Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Amidst protests against police brutality, Rayshard Brooks, who is Black, was shot and killed by an officer in Atlanta on Friday.

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0:00.0	It's happened again.
0:08.4	A black man has been shot dead by a white police officer, and we see it happen again
0:13.9	on video.
0:15.6	This time it was Atlanta this past Friday night.
0:18.9	Police answered a call that a man had fallen asleep in his car at a Wendy's drive-through.
0:24.4	That man was Ray Shard Brooks, 27 years old.
0:28.3	On Sunday, the Fountain County Medical Examiner's office confirmed that his death was a homicide.
0:34.4	The cause of death, two gunshot wounds to his back.
0:40.4	Today on Into America, the killing of Ray Shard Brooks, the anger, the aftermath, and
0:46.5	what it's like to be a black journalist covering this moment in our country.
0:55.2	Elaine Alexander is a correspondent for NBC News based in Atlanta.
1:01.8	Blaine, it's been a really rough several weeks in Atlanta.
1:06.2	You have the Amart Arbery shooting in Georgia.
1:10.6	Then you add the killing of George Floyd, a really botched election, and now the killing
1:16.0	of Ray Shard Brooks.
1:17.9	Just give me a little background with this moment and how we got here.
1:23.3	I think what we're seeing right now is a lot of unrest over all of the things that you
1:28.8	just said and possibly more.
1:31.7	We've seen protests around the city that have kind of spanned for days.
1:36.5	Certainly a feeling that people are protesting not just one specific incident, not just George
1:42.7	Floyd or Ray Shard Brooks or the elections, but protesting all of it coming together.
1:48.2	I think that's why you're seeing them as fiery and as passionate as they have been over
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