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ATLANTA SHOOTING

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ATLANTA SHOOTING
ATLANTA SHOOTING
police shooting in atlanta friday has spraked more outrage

Police shooting in atlanta friday has sparked more outrage.

John lorinc reports.

:00 :31 :47 a large crowd disrupting traffic on an atlanta interstate sunday night.

They're protesting friday's fatal, police shooting of rayshard brooks.

Police found brooks asleep in his car at a wendy's drive-through.

After a sobriety test, an officer tries to arrest him.

--nat sound of police officer-- "put your hands behind your back...."

Brooks resists, and there is a scuffle..... witness video shows brooks taking a taser from police and surveillance video shows him shooting it toward an officer.

--nat sound of gunshots-- he was then shot by police and taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Justin miller/attorney for family of rayshard brooks "we know he was shot twice in the back.

Once in his midback and once in his buttocks and those shots ended up killing him."

An autopsy report lists the 27-year-old's death as a homicide.

Mayor keisha lance bottoms/atlanta "i watched the interaction with mr. brooks, and it broke my heart.

This is not confrontation al."

The day after the shooting, protesters set fire to the wendy's where brooks was killed.and officer garrett rolfe, who police say shot brooks, was terminated.

The other officer at the scene is on administrative duty.

In addition to atlanta, there were calls for police reform in numerous cities, including washington d-c, new york and miami.

Mayor keisha lance bottoms/atlanta "these deaths will

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