{"id":40157,"date":"2020-06-14T11:19:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T18:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40157"},"modified":"2020-06-14T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T18:19:42","slug":"republicans-on-parade-6-14-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/14\/republicans-on-parade-6-14-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade&ndash;6\/14\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RepublicansOnParade8.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the one hundred seventy-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is Garrett Rolfe, a Republican police officer in Atlanta. He is so honored for murdering yet another unarmed Black man, by shooting him in the back as he fled.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>L<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"216\" title=\"0614PigMurder\" align=\"left\" style=\"float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0614PigMurder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0614PigMurder.jpg\" border=\"0\">ess than 24 hours after a white police officer shot and killed an African-American man outside a fast-food restaurant, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta announced on Saturday that the city\u2019s police chief had resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Early on Sunday morning, Sgt. John Chafee, a spokesman for the Atlanta Police Department, said the officer who shot the man had been fired\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026The authorities said the man, Rayshard Brooks, 27, had run from the police on Friday night after failing a sobriety test and grabbing a Taser from an officer during a struggle with him. Ms. Bottoms said that security footage appeared to show that Mr. Brooks had fired the Taser toward the officer, who was chasing him before he was killed, but that she did not consider that a justification for the shooting\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/13\/us\/atlanta-police-shooting-rayshard-brooks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Warning: the following video contains graphic footage of a Republican murder.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hnRuWcgflaE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Body cam footage of Rayshard Brooks\u2019 death shows calm, then chaos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hnRuWcgflaE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To be fair, I have to say that Brooks\u2019 conduct was far from acceptable.&nbsp; Police and Republicans are claiming that Rolfe was in fear for his life, because Brooks fired the TASER at him.&nbsp; However, police and \u201cexpert witnesses\u201d have testified in court the use of TASERs by police is justified in crowd control, because it is a non lethal weapon.&nbsp; Therefore, Rolfe could not have feared for his life from a non-lethal weapon.&nbsp; Furthermore, once the TASER had been fired and missed, it could not be fired again and was no threat to Rolfe.&nbsp; For Rolfe to shoot an unarmed fleeing Brooks in the back is a racist Republican murder.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred seventy-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is Garrett Rolfe, a Republican police officer in Atlanta. He is so honored for murdering yet another unarmed Black man, by shooting him in the back as he fled. Less <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/14\/republicans-on-parade-6-14-2020\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3924,3998,3783,3714],"class_list":["post-40157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gop-murder","tag-police-misconduct","tag-republicans-on-parade","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}