Officer Devin Brosnan, who was charged with “aggravated assault” in the shooting and killing of Rayshard Brooks turned himself into police.
Officer Brosnan, is being accused of “stepping on” Mr. Brooks’ body after he was already dead.
But his lawyers say there’s a perfectly good explanation for that.
Officer Brosnan had a concussion from the fight with Mr. Brooks. When he got up from rolling around on the ground, he didn’t even realize that Mr. Brooks had been shot.
Lawyers for the officer say the DA never even bothered to check the officer’s medical records before they charged him and smeared his name during a dramatic press conference where they also charged the officer who shot Mr. Brooks with “felony murder.” He now faces the death penalty.
Atlanta police officer Devin Brosnan suffered a concussion and other injuries during the altercation that led to the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks, the cop’s attorney said in a televised interview.
“Devin ends up taking out his Taser and yelling at him to ‘stop fighting, stop fighting,’” Don Samuel told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday night. “Mr. Brooks grabbed the Taser from him and shoots … Devin gets shot with the Taser.”
The lawyer added: “He then falls over and lands on his head on the pavement and gets a concussion.”
Samuel, who called Brosnan’s actions “exemplary,” claimed prosecutors didn’t bother looking at the officer’s medical records.
Samuel said the concussed Brosnan didn’t even realize Brooks had been shot when he “put his foot on the arm to make sure he didn’t have access to a weapon” as he lay on the ground.
“It’s not an assault. It’s a man suffering from a concussion,” he added.
Meanwhile, another attorney for Brosnan said there is no agreement for the officer to testify – contradicting what Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said at a press conference announcing charges Wednesday.
I don’t know when we’ll all learn to take a breath and wait until all the facts are in order before we start holding press conferences and whipping people up into a rioting frenzy.
Although, in the case of the Fulton County DA, I think that’s exactly what he wants to do since he’s in a battle to keep his DA position.
This man’s political aspirations are fueling a “race war” in Atlanta.
These Democrats are monsters.
This piece was written by Missy Crane on June 18, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com [3] and is used by permission.