ATLANTA – Former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, charged with felony murder in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks last week outside a downtown Wendy’s, five years ago was involved in another shooting on the job that left a man with a punctured lung, court documents show.
She immediately turned the officers’ names, along with information about the case and a letter from James describing the shooting, over to the GBI.
But Atlanta police did not use the GBI at that time to conduct investigations into officer shootings.
Downs said she believes the state went easy on Harris because they feared the police shooting would dramatically weaken their case.
At one point during the plea hearing, the transcript shows, Downs asked Chung: “Are y’all trying to protect the police officers?”
