Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields Resigns After Fatal Shooting of Black Man<br />Authorities in the U.S. state of Georgia said Saturday a man was shot and killed in a late-night struggle with Atlanta police outside a fast-food restaurant after he failed a field sobriety test and resisted arrest.<br /><br />The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said it was asked by the Atlanta Police Department to investigate the shooting, which happened at a Wendy's restaurant late Friday.<br /><br />The GBI said its agents were reviewing video taken by witnesses.<br /><br />The agency also posted to Twitter a plea for witnesses to come forward, saying some at the scene "chose not to be interviewed by GBI agents."<br /><br />The shooting came at a time of heightened tension over police brutality and calls for reforms across the US following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.<br /><br />Atlanta was among US cities where large crowds of protesters took to the streets.<br /><br />Officers were responding to a complaint of a man in a vehicle parked in the drive-thru who was asleep, causing customers to drive around the vehicle.<br /><br />After he failed a field sobriety test, the officers attempted to place the man into custody, according to the GBI.<br /><br />But he resisted and a struggle ensued, and the two officers deployed their Tasers in an attempt to subdue the man, according to local police.<br /><br />Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Brooks tried to fight off two officers when they tried to arrest him and at one point managed to take a Taser away from one of them.<br /><br />During a short foot chase Brooks "turns around, and it appears to the eye, at that time he points a Taser at an Atlanta officer," Reynolds said.<br /><br />"At that point, the Atlanta officer reaches down and retrieves his weapon from his holster, discharges it, strikes Mr. Brooks there on the parking lot and he goes down," he said.<br /><br />The man was transported to a local hospital where he died after surgery.<br /><br />The GBI later identified him as 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks of Atlanta.<br /><br />One officer was treated for an injury and discharged from the hospital.<br /><br />The officers involved in the shooting were not identified.<br /><br />Once its investigation is complete, the case will be turned over to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office for review.
