Resisting arrest here in Ohio is a misdemeanor offense unless the officer is put in major danger or the assailant has a deadly weapon. This will be investigated and I suspect the officer will be charged with something.

He apparently brought it upon himself by grabbing the officers taser and things just esclated and in retribution the guys decided lets burn down a restaurant.

Not what you wrote. You said, "exactly why black people across the nation are so angry."

Why wasn't it about ANY police shooting ANY person regardless of race?

You are on a bandwagon, and I know you are not alone. But people need to wake the hell up. ALL people.

The police are already on pins and needles. It is because politicians are kow- towing to the mob and do not have the guts to stand up to them and protect their constituents. It is better to let their cities burn. Anarchy will reign. America is in trouble and our enemies are gleefully watching. Thank a police officer revert chance you get.

Yea, I was going by memory. The officer has in fact administered the breathalyzer and and was in the process of handcuffing him when he began to fight.

But that wouldn't justify shooting him. The issue that I saw that did was that he stole the officer's taser and fired it at him. That's when the officer returned fire.

Thank a police officer every chance you get.

Actually, what struck me as odd about the whole thing was how pleasant and cooperative Mr Brooks was during the whole process up until the officer tried to cuff him.

He just turned on a dime.

It's amazing how the officer was immediately fired, his partner suspended and the police chief resigned. I think that it was the mayor that made those calls.

In this case, the person was armed and fired a taser at the officer.

Do you condemn the officer defending himself?

There must be a "cleaning brigade". That offends me mightily. I searched and searched before and finally found a British Newspaper that published George Floyd's criminal record. I feel like we are being manipulated and maneuvered. We are the victims of a new religion called political correctness by unseen forces. People are trying to hide public information from behind the scenes. That is wrong. Very wrong, just like it is wrong to break the law and to drive while drunk and to resist arrest and to flee police and to discharge a weapon against officers of the law while fleeing. Every child I ever knew was taught this.

Let me correct a few things in this post. He was was running away but was not shot in the back. During the pursuit, the man turned and fired the taser at the officer. The officer returned fire.

The taser is not a lethal weapon and if this man didn't steal the officer's taser the officer would have been able to use it instead of his gun.

Officers are trained that if someone has a taser or stun gun that they are to shoot. This is because if they are tased or stunned, they are rendered helpless and the perpetrator can then take their gun and shoot them.

A taser, by the way, can be used as a stun gun once the taser cartridge has been expelled.

I have no idea why the officer was picking up brass or that he actually was. I didn't see that. If he was it would no bearing on the case. He shot three times. There is no disputing that so where the brass laid would have nothing to do with this case.

This is easily a justified shooting. Unfortunately, it comes on the heels of what is apparently an unjustified homicide of a black man that is all over the news and has created a toxic political environment.

What you didn’t include was when the man fired the taser at the officer, it was not accurate, as you can imagine if one is drunk, scared, running, and trying to shoot with something he is not trained to use. Here is the article in more detail: Video Investigation: How Rayshard Brooks Was Fatally Shot by Atlanta Police - The New York Times

The Taser was a contact taser and he grabbed and ran 45 minutes after first contact.

Don’t think a taser justifies shooting and killing him. All I will say if he had been white would the officer have shot him.

Actually, yes he can shoot the thug.

It is not about George Floyd it is the straw that broke the camels back. This was not the first black person unjustifiably killed by the police this year or even that month.