Topic: Rayshard Brooks

The Atlanta City Council agreed to pay $1 million to the family of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by police two years ago.

Prosecutors in Georgia have announced they will not charge two Atlanta police officers who were involved in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks in the summer of 2020.

The family of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, who was fatally shot last summer during protests in Atlanta, has filed a lawsuit against the city and its leaders for failing to fulfill their duties to protect the public.

The Atlanta police officer charged with murder over the shooting death of a Black man last summer has been reinstated to the force though he will remain on administrative leave.

Julian Conley, 19, was denied bond and will remain in jail after being charged in the death of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, a judge ruled Thursday.

Atlanta police on Sunday released photos of a second man wanted for questioning in a shooting that killed an 8-year-old girl in the city earlier this month.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday declared a state of emergency and deployed 1,000 Georgia National Guard troops to Atlanta amid violence in the city after an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed over the weekend.

A judge has granted bail to a former Atlanta police officer charged with murder for fatally shooting a black man in a Wendy's restaurant parking lot last month despite pleas from the victim's family for him to remain beh

The family and friends of Rayshard Brooks gathered at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church on Tuesday to hold a funeral for the man killed in a police-involved shooting earlier this month.

The Atlanta Police Department saw a rise in officer absences early Thursday amid word of a planned walkout to protest criminal charges against two officers in the death of Rayshard Brooks.