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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency and authorized the activation of National Guard troops after a weekend of violence where an 8-year-old girl and four others were killed

Police say an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed in Atlanta on the Fourth of July after at least two people in a crowd opened fire on a car she was in.

Authorities have arrested two more people on suspicion of arson in the burning of an Atlanta Wendy’s restaurant where a police officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks.

Atlanta rapper T.I. will soon be adding educator to his resume.

A woman charged with arson in the burning of a fast food restaurant in the wake of Rayshard Brooks’ killing was granted bond Wednesday

Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, taking part in a funeral rich with historical echoes and filled with a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too many times before.

Family and friends gathered to mourn the death of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man shot by police outside a fast-food restaurant in Atlanta.

A newspaper report says the former Atlanta police officer charged with felony murder  in the fatal shooting of an African American man was involved in another shooting five years ago that left a man with a punctured lung

A judge on Friday denied bond for the former Atlanta police officer who has been charged with felony murder and other crimes after fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks in the back after Brooks fired a stun gun in his direction. Judge Jeffrey Frazier found probable cause exists to detain Garrett Rolfe for the slaying of Rayshard Brooks outside a Wendy’s...

Atlanta police officers have called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man in the back

Atlanta police officers have called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man in the back

Atlanta police officers charged in fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks; Brooks’ family attorney says the charges are only the beginning.

Prosecutors across the country are defying traditionally cozy relationships with police departments, swiftly charging officers with assault and other crimes in the protests following the killing of George Floyd and dropping charges for demonstrators arrested by police

Prosecutors brought murder charges Wednesday against the white ex-Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in the back, saying that the Black man posed no threat when he was gunned down and that the officer kicked him and offered no medical treatment as he lay dying on the ground.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard, Jr., announced 11 charges against former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe in the death of Rayshard Brooks.

The police killing of a black man in Atlanta who was being arrested for being intoxicated is hotly debated by law enforcement experts and others.

The family of Rayshard Brooks spoke out at a press conference on Monday, asking for the police officers involved in his death to be charged and convicted. Police shot Brooks twice in the back outside of a Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday night after someone reported Brooks for sleeping in his car.

Multiple cameras including Atlanta Police bodycams and dashcams captured the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks. Brooks was being handcuffed by police when a struggle ensued and Brooks tries to flee with an officers’ stun gun. He was shot in the back three times and later died at a nearby hospital. Police were called to...

The widow of Rayshard Brooks, who was shot by police outside of an Atlanta Wendy’s Friday, said she cannot watch the videos of her husband being killed, NBC News reports. “I’m already in enough pain right now so to see anything of my husband being shot down … I couldn’t see that. I can’t stomach that right now,” Tomika Miller...

Anti-racism protesters are calling attention to the deaths of two more Black men, one who was found hanging from a tree in California and another who was fatally shot by police outside an Atlanta restaurant.