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Prosecutor Weighing Charges in Atlanta Man's Death

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   A prosecutor in the southern U.S. city of Atlanta says that he expects
   to decide by mid-week whether to bring charges against a white
   policeman who shot a black man to death after an altercation at a
   fast-food restaurant last Friday.

   Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Paul Howard told CNN on
   Sunday that he is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the death of
   27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, a restaurant worker who was the father of
   three young daughters.

   Authorities say Brooks was shot to death by an Atlanta police officer,
   Garrett Rolfe, after Brooks grabbed another officer's stun gun and
   pointed it at Rolfe as he tried to run from the parking lot of a
   Wendy's restaurant as the two officers attempted to handcuff and arrest
   him after he failed a sobriety test.

   Rolfe was quickly fired from the Atlanta police force and the second
   officer, Devin Brosnan, placed on administrative leave pending
   completion of the investigation. There was a significant amount of
   video of the incident, from police body and car cameras and restaurant
   surveillance pictures.

   It is the latest killing in the U.S. raising questions about police use
   of force in which an African American man died in police custody, such
   as the death of George Floyd three weeks ago in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
   that has spawned coast-to-coast demonstrations in the U.S., some of the
   most widespread in the country since protests against the Vietnam War
   in the 1960s.

   The Brooks shooting drew new protests in Atlanta over the weekend, with
   42 demonstrators arrested and the Wendy's restaurant where the shooting
   occurred set afire. A $10,000 reward has been posted for information
   leading to a suspect involved in torching the restaurant.

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