Steven Gaynor, the President of Cobb County Fraternal Order of Police, said that the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks was justified under Georgia law.
Brooks, 27, was killed by an Atlanta police officer outside a Wendy's restaurant after failing a sobriety test, fighting with two officers, taking a Taser from one and running away.
"I think you can justify this case by Georgia law. It specifically gives the right based on the aggravated assault and the threat he poses to the public and the officers there," Gaynor told CNN's Chris Cuomo. "It specifically gives them by law the right to shoot him. He chose to make those actions. He chose to do what he did. He could have been like 100 other DUIs that night -- got arrested, bonded out, and brought home to his family."
Officer Garrett Rolfe was fired after footage showed him shooting at Brooks multiple times from the back as Brooks fled. The second officer, Devin Brosnan, is on administrative duty.
Gaynor said that a Taser is not a deadly weapon when used by a trained individual, because a "trained individual knows where to aim it," but "an untrained individual does not and then it becomes a deadly weapon at that point."
Of the officer's decision to shoot and not just let Brooks run away, Gaynor said, "now we know what the criminal history is, but we didn't know at the time."
"Could he carjack somebody? Could he be scared so much that he’s going to kidnap somebody in another car? Is he going to hurt a civilian? There’s a lot of things that come into play that you have to play out and go 'I am responsible for this person I was going to arrest' and he now has a weapon that I provided him because he took it from me," he said.
Gaynor said that Brooks' actions when he was placed under arrest "causes what occurs in his death, not the previous action where they are all compliant."
"They go to put the handcuffs on him -- a lawful arrest with detention -- and he chooses to fight. That causes all of these things to then spiral. So you’ve got to take those into account," Gaynor said.
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