from The Mind Unleashed:

The head of Atlanta’s police union has confirmed that officers from Zones 3 and 6 became non-responsive in the middle of their shifts on Wednesday afternoon and ceased answering calls in an apparent protest of the charges.

A huge number of police officers in Atlanta, Georgia walked off the job Wednesday evening in response to former Atlanta police Officer Garrett Rolfe facing murder charges for fatally shooting 27-year-old Black man Rayshard Brooks last week.

Decaturish reports that the head of Atlanta’s police union has confirmed that officers from Zones 3 and 6 became non-responsive in the middle of their shifts on Wednesday afternoon and ceased answering calls in an apparent protest of the charges.

The bold move to hold the former police officer accountable for the apparent murder of Brooks has enraged officers, likely sparking the walkout. Vince Champion, southeast regional director of the International Brotherhood of Police officers, denied that his association planned the action.

“The union, we would never advocate this. We wouldn’t advocate a blue flu,” the police association director said. “We don’t know the numbers. Apparently we’re learning that command staff are asking outlying counties for support and aren’t getting it.”

A spokesperson for the Atlanta Police Department had earlier described reports of a walkout “inaccurate.” However, local reports and social media posts by figures like conservative columnist Todd Starnes claimed that “only two precincts are staffed in the entire city of Atlanta,” which has a population of over 520,000 people.

“We have enough resources to maintain operations & remain able to respond to incidents,” APD wrote on its official Twitter account.

Earlier suggestions that multiple officers from each zone had walked off the job were inaccurate. The department is experiencing a higher than usual number of call outs with the incoming shift. We have enough resources to maintain operations & remain able to respond to incidents.

— Atlanta Police Department (@Atlanta_Police) June 18, 2020

On Wednesday, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced that now-former Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe faces 11 charges including felony murder after firing three shots at Brooks, two of which struck him in the back and another that stuck a car with three passengers inside, reports CNN.

After Rolfe shot Brooks, he not only failed to provide timely first aid but apparently exclaimed, “I got him!” before kicking the dying man while he gasped his last breaths, Howard said.

Rolfe’s demeanor after the shooting “did not reflect any fear or danger of Mr. Brooks, but reflected other kinds of emotions,” the district attorney said.

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