The news sounds depressingly familiar.
Rayshard Brooks was 27. He was a father to three young daughters and a teenage stepson. He was Black. The officer who shot him was white.
On Friday, police shot and killed him while responding to a call that Brooks had fallen asleep in his car at a Wendy’s in Atlanta, Georgia.
Video shows Brooks and officers in a calm, lengthy conversation before the subsequent chaos. The officer who shot him has been fired and Atlanta’s police chief resigned.
We talk to the host of the Peabody Award-winning podcast “Buried Truths” about Georgia’s violent racist past — and present.
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