That is not good news for anyone involved with bringing a case against the officer:
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said that the reason that Rolfe was charged was because Brooks “did not pose an immediate threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or officers.”Yet, a couple of weeks earlier, Howard charged a police officer “for pointing a taser” at someone because a taser was considered to be a “deadly weapon” under Georgia law.
Howard stepped in that one.
The GBI is currently investigating Howard over the subpoena’s Howard’s office issued in the case regarding Rolfe.Howard issued grand jury subpoenas directing the Atlanta Police Department to turn over its “open investigation regarding Garrett Rolfe and the use of force incident.” Fox 5 Atlanta reports:
The subpoena required that the documents be turned over for the “Grand Jury, June/July term on the of 14th day of July.” Other grand jury subpoenas were issued for phone and surveillance camera videos.
The grand jury subpoenas were reportedly issued while the grand jury was suspended. The grand jury “had been suspended on March 13 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The issuing of grand jury subpoenas while there is no grand jury could be “an ethical or possibly criminal issue,” according to legal experts who spoke with Fox 5.
Another big woopsies, ordered a grand jury subpoena without a grand jury in session, now Howard the DA is being investigated for breaking the law/rules.
Originally posted by Surtur
Atlanta DA who charged officer with murder in the Rayshard Brooks case just lost his reelection bidLol
Perhaps the community is not super pleased with his decision making.