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'DEAL WITH THIS DUDE?'
First cop to respond to 911 that resulted in death of Rayshard Brooks initially considered just letting the incident go
THE first police officer to respond to a 911 call that led to the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta considered letting the incident slide, bodycam footage shows.
Video collected from Officer Devin Brosnan, 26, the first officer to arrive on the scene, shows the Brosnan asking himself, "Do I want to deal with this dude right now?," reported.
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The footage shows Brosnan getting out of his car before discovering Brooks, who he said was drunk at the wheel of his vehicle and smelling of alcohol.
was shot dead after police were called to the incident at Wendy's on University Avenue, in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday, June 12.
Brooks' death has been ruled as homicide, and the officer who fired the fatal shots, Garrett Rolfe, 27, has since been fired.
Officer Brosnan has been placed on administrative duty while the incident is investigated by Georgia Bureau of Investigations.
Brooks' shooting comes amid international protests about police brutality and racial inequality, stemming from a spate of deaths of unarmed black suspects – most recently in Minneapolis.
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Bodycam footage from Officer Brosnan shows the first minutes of the callout, when the officer attempted to wake Brooks.
Brooks was asked to pull into a parking space to allow traffic to keep moving, only for the 27-year-old to fall asleep at the wheel again.
After Brooks overshot a parking space, Officer Brosnan got back into his vehicle, when he asked himself, "Do I want to deal with this dude right now?"
Having discovered Brooks asleep once more, the officer headed back to his car, contemplated for a few minutes, before returning to Brooks to ask, "Hey, man, are you good? Because you were passed out before. I just want to check you are OK. Why did you fall asleep?"
Brooks then told the officer that he was "doing about fifty" and over the rest of the stop, Brooks gave officers differing statements about how much alcohol he had consumed.
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police on Sunday released body-camera and other footage related to the fatal shooting.
It is believed Brooks was chatting cooperatively with officers minutes before his death, saying he had a couple of drinks to celebrate his daughter's birthday and agreeing to a breath test.
“I know you're just doing your job,” Brooks says on video after consenting to the breathalyzer test, adding, "I just had a few drinks, that's all."
Rolfe does not tell Brooks the results of the test even though his body camera recorded a digital readout of 0.108 - higher than the 0.08-gram blood alcohol content considered too intoxicated to drive in Georgia.
"All right, I think you’ve had too much to drink to be driving," Rolfe tells Brooks.
"Put your hands behind your back."
Atlanta police said that Brooks had resisted during officers struggle to arrest him after he failed a field sobriety test.
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One video that surfaced on social media shows a struggle between Brooks and the two white officers before he is chased off screen.
After Brooks – who punched one of the officers – disappears off screen, three shots can be heard ringing out.
An autopsy showed Brooks sustained two gunshot wounds to his back.
Officer Garret Rolfe recently received de-escalation training and passed a "Use of Deadly Force" course in January, according to .
The outlet also reported that during his time with the force Rolfe had over 2,000 hours of training and completed multiple courses in tactical team operations and firearms training.
Lawyers for Brooks' family say the officers covered their tracks by .
Brooks's wife, , told CBS: "He was shot running away. He wasn't dangerous.
"He wasn't coming at them in any kind of way to where they felt a threat, they shouldn't have felt threatened."
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The widow also called for the cops to be locked up.
"I want them to go to jail," the reported that the widow said. "I want them to deal with the same thing as if it was my husband who killed someone else.
"If it was my husband who shot them, he would be in jail. He would be doing a life sentence. They need to be put away," she said.
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