Reports surfaced on Wednesday night that many Atlanta police officers, furious that Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced that the police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks last week was charged with felony murder, didn’t report for their shifts. The rumors of police officers walking off the job is reminiscent of a scene roughly 39 years ago.
In December 1981, police officers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, went on a 16-hour strike after two police officers were shot and killed by a black teenager, and a Milwaukee alderman stated, “The person could have suspected that the police were simply going to kill him, and because of that, he might have acted out of fear rather than out of any kind of sensible surrender to the police.”
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