When is Rayshard Brooks’ funeral and who paid for it?
RAYSHARD Brooks’ funeral service is being held at 1pm on Tuesday at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Brooks, who was 27, was fatally shot three times in the back by a police officer outside a Wendy’s restaurant on 12 June in Atlanta.
Megastar Tyler Perry has offered to .
When is Rayshard Brooks funeral and where is it being held?
The family and friends of Rayshard Brooks honor his life in a private funeral service from 1pm to 3pm on Tuesday at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Civil rights leader and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr was a co-pastor at the historic church from 1960 until his assassination in 1968.
Brooks’s casket arrived at the church in a white funeral hearse.
King’s daughter, the Reverend Bernice King, and the Reverend Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at the church, will deliver remarks, along with a friend of Brooks.
“Ebenezer is a parish for all people, a sanctuary for those who suffer,” said the Reverend Warnock, .
“Rayshard was not a member of our church but he, and his loved ones, are a part of our family.
“We seek to embrace them, comfort them and walk beside them in the days ahead,” he added.
Who paid for Rayshard Brooks’ funeral?
At a press conference on Monday, the family’s attorney, L Chris Stewart said: “We do want to acknowledge Tyler Perry who we spoke with, who will be taking care of the funeral for the family.”
The lawyer then continued: “It’s support like that and its people who are actually in this community, that love the community, that want healing and families like this to never have to go through something like this, to step forward.
“And we want to thank him for such a generous move.”
What happened to Rayshard Brooks?
was found asleep in the driver’s seat of a car blocking the drive-thru lane of a Wendy’s restaurant in southwest Atlanta at 10.33pm on June 12.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) have released a 46-minute surveillance video of Wendy’s car park.
Brooks can be seen running away from the police officers.
He appears to point a stun gun behind him before he is shot by , one of the officers.
Bodycam footage has also been released showing the officers’ full interaction with Brooks.
Brooks talks politely to the officers as they tell him to take a field sobriety test which he failed, the GBI said.
The footage shows a scuffle between Brooks and officers.
The GBI said he resisted arrest and took a stun gun from one of the policemen.
Shots are fired as Brooks tries to run, along with someone shouting
Brooks was taken to a nearby hospital but later died.
of false imprisonment, simple battery/family, battery simple and felony cruelty/cruelty to children, the reported.
He had reportedly pleaded guilty to charges dating back to August 2014.
The dad-of-four was sentenced to one year in prison and six on probation for one count, and 12 months for each of the three other counts.
After a revised sentencing, he was sent back to prison in July 2016.
In December 2019, a warrant was issued for his arrest, which was revoked a month later.
Following his death, the Wendy’s restaurant where Brooks was fatally shot was burned down.
An arrest warrant has been issued for a woman named , who was identified as a suspect in the attack on in on June 13.
Atlanta Fire and Rescue photos of 29-year-old White on Friday in a store, saying the warrant was issued by fire investigators in the Georgia city, but didn’t provide more information.
Has Garrett Rolfe been charged?
Rolfe, a 27-year-old white police officer who fired the shots at Brooks, .
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced 11 charges against Garrett Rolfe, including felony murder.
The DA said there was one good thing about .
“Because in the video we actually get a chance to hear the officer’s first statement after the shooting took place.
“And what the officer said is not that his life was saved. What his statement was, he said: ‘I got him’.”
Rolfe was sworn into the Atlanta police department as an officer in 2013.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has criticized Rolfe’s actions.
She said: “There is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do.”
“I do not believe this was a justified use of deadly force.”