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Rayshard Brooks struggled in system but didn't hide his past
Read full article: Rayshard Brooks struggled in system but didn't hide his pastIn this image made from video and released by the advocacy group Reconnect, Rayshard Brooks speaks during an interview about five months before an Atlanta police officer shot and killed him in earlier June 2020, in Atlanta. In the video interview with Reconnect, Brooks talked openly of his prison time. He described a cycle of job rejection and shame. He talked of a system that takes millions of Americans, many of them Black like him, away from their families and treats them more like animals than individuals. (Reconnect via AP)
Rayshard Brooks struggled in system but didn't hide his past
Read full article: Rayshard Brooks struggled in system but didn't hide his pastIn the video interview with Reconnect, Brooks talked openly of his prison time. (Reconnect via AP)ATLANTA Rayshard Brooks didnt hide his history. He loved it up here, Brooks father, Larry Barbine, said in a telephone interview. Brooks said he didn't want to be in violation of anybody" and told the officers he could walk home. In Ohio, family and co-workers were heartbroken.