Resisting arrest is Atlanta's killer -- and America's
The crime in Atlanta's latest racial explosion is that city authorities with hair-trigger quickness fired Officer Garrett Rolfe for shooting Rayshard Brooks in the back. Published June 15, 2020
Ralph Z. Hallow, the chief political correspondent of commentary, served on the Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Washington Times editorial boards, was Ford Foundation Fellow in Urban Journalism at Northwestern University, resident at Columbia University Editorial-Page Editors Seminar and has filed from Berlin, Bonn, London, Paris, Geneva, Vienna, Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Belgrade, Bucharest, Panama and Guatemala.
The crime in Atlanta's latest racial explosion is that city authorities with hair-trigger quickness fired Officer Garrett Rolfe for shooting Rayshard Brooks in the back. Published June 15, 2020
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