Atlanta DA loses election

[Bmyers]

Officer Garrett Rolfe was maliciously charged with murder and ten other counts in June by then-District Attorney Paul Howard. Last night, Howard was unseated by a tenacious young woman who worked under Howard for 16 years. Fani Willis won in a landslide with 73% of the vote.

If you recall, Paul Howard is a slimy DA who embraced the media frenzy surrounding Rayshard Brooks' death. Howard conducted a theatrical press conference announcing criminal charges before the Georgia Bureau of Investigation completed an investigation of the shooting. He then audaciously used images from the shooting in his re-election campaign advertisements.

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During the press conference, Howard lied when he described the interaction between Brooks and Rolfe, saying, “Brooks never displayed any aggressive behavior during the 41 minutes and 17 seconds." If you recall from my analysis of the incident, Brooks had committed a felony obstruction by fighting the officers, felony assaults by striking both officers to rob them of the taser, and a felony robbery by stealing the taser while using force. He then suspiciously sought Felony Murder warrants for Ofc. Rolfe from a family court judge without criminal court experience.

Interestingly, at the time this shooting took place, Howard had over 40 other police use of force cases sitting on his desk, but those cases remained ignored because of a lack of associated media attention. Howard appears to have jumped on the opportunity to prosecute Officer Rolfe in an attempt to boost his campaign and divert attention from investigation into his own criminal conduct, for allegations of self-dealing and sexual abuse. Fani Willis suggested that Howard used Officer Rolfe "clearly for his political benefit."
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[David]

[bdcochran]

We hope that our public officials will do their jobs and we become complacent. Glad that he lost.

[David]

May he be one of many that are voted out or removed from office.

[Bob]

The problem is they get replaced by the same thing.