The case against two Atlanta police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks in 2020 has been dropped, with authorities finding that they could not criminally charge them.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the special prosecutor overseeing the case announced Tuesday afternoon (August 23) he wouldn’t pursue charges against the officers.

During an afternoon news conference in Morrow, Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia shared the decision.

On June 12, 2020, the 27-year-old Brooks was shot and killed after Officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan tried to arrest him in the parking lot of a South Atlanta Wendy’s. The shooting caused protests at the restaurant, which was burned to the ground a day later.

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On Tuesday, Skandalakis went through an extensive slide presentation on the case’s background and provided video analysis of the incident.

“This case of Devin Brosnan and Garrett Rolfe is not like the George Floyd case,” Skandalakis said, according to the AJC, noting that Brooks’ case was different from those of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. “This is not a case in which an officer was kneeling on a prone suspect for nine minutes. It’s nothing like that. Nor is it like the Ahmaud Arbery case, where armed citizens were chasing a person down through a neighborhood. This case, its facts, are different. Its facts are distinct. But you can’t ignore the fact that all of this was happening about the same time.”

Five days after Brooks’ shooting, former Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced criminal charges against both officers. Rolfe was charged with 11 counts, including felony murder while Brosnan was charged with aggravated assault and violating his oath of office, but that was prior to more details being released about what happened.

Brooks allegedly resisted when officers attempted to arrest him on a DUI charge. Investigators say the man, who was asleep at the wheel in a drive-thru line, struggled with the officers as they fell to the ground and Brosnan hit his head hard enough to cause a concussion.

Brooks then allegedly took Brosnan’s Taser and was seen aiming it at Rolfe while running, firing once and missing. Rolfe then fired three bullets at Brooks, hitting him twice in the back.

In a statement, Atlanta city councilman Antonio Lewis, who represents the district where Brooks’ shooting took place, rejected the decision, saying that Brooks should still be alive.

“Seeing the charges dismissed truly pains me. Rayshard Brooks was asleep at the wheel in a drive-thru line. That’s all,” he said. “I understand the need for accountability, but he didn’t have to lose his life. This shooting happened in my district and the community still feels the hurt and the devastation from it. We must continue to work toward keeping our neighborhoods safe, but we also must hold police accountable.”