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#Ex-cop in Rayshard Brooks death allegedly never reported 2015 shooting

#Ex-cop in Rayshard Brooks death allegedly never reported 2015 shooting

June 17, 2020 | 2:01pm

The former Atlanta cop who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks was also involved in the 2015 shooting of another black man — but never reported that shots were fired, according to a new report.

Garrett Rolfe, 27, was among three officers who shot and wounded Jackie Jermaine Harris after a car chase, sending him to the hospital, The Guardian said in a report Wednesday.

But the cops never mentioned that they fired their weapons in their reports on the incident, according to a judge who later reviewed the case.

“It’s the wildest case I’ve seen in my 34 years here,” Judge Doris Downs said during a 2016 court hearing, the outlet reported.

“None of the police put in the report that they shot the man — none of them,” Downs said. “And they sent him to Grady (Memorial Hospital) with collapsed lungs and everything, and the report doesn’t mention it.”

“I am ethically going to be required to turn all of them in,” the judge said.

But it’s unclear if any action was ever taken against Rolfe or the other two cops, The Guardian said.

Disciplinary records released by Atlanta officials Tuesday listed the 2015 case as a firearms discharge incident, but did not include details and did not list the outcome of the incident nor note if any action was ever taken.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation told The Guardian that it did not investigate the shooting.

Harris — who later pleaded guilty to theft, property damage, damaging a police vehicle and fleeing police charges — was sentenced to time already served in jail and one year of probation.

“I just don’t want them to get away with what they did to me,” Harris told the paper.

His attorney, Serena Nunn, said the cops who shot her client in 2015 admitted that Harris was injured during the incident, but neglected to mention that they also shot him.

“Being shot in the back and ultimately having your lung collapse is something more than an injury that was caused during the incident,” Nunn said. “We do expect officers to uphold the law. I cannot think of a plausible reason as to why they would have omitted that information.”

Rolfe was fired Saturday, one day after he shot Brooks twice in the back after a scuffle during which Brooks took one of the cops’ Tasers.

According to the records released this week, Rolfe received a written reprimand for a 2017 use of force incident involving a firearm. He was also the subject of 12 citizen complaints during his seven years on the Atlanta police force.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard is scheduled to announce Wednesday whether Rolfe and a second cop, Devin Brosnan, will face criminal charges in Brooks’ death.

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