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June 18, 2020

Rayshard Brooks Described Struggles with Criminal Justice System in Video Recorded Before His Killing
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New video has emerged of Rayshard Brooks speaking in his own words about
his struggles with the criminal justice system. The experience of being
locked up in prison, he says, left him deep in debt and struggling to
pay court fees and restitution - even as employers turned him away due
to his criminal record. Brooks spoke in February with the group
Reconnect.

Rayshard Brooks: "I just feel like some of the system could look at us
as individuals - we do have lives, you know, where it's just a mistake
we made - and, you know, not just do us as if we are animals."



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