A public viewing for Rayshard Brooks, the Black man shot in the back by an Atlanta police officer outside a Wendy’s restaurant, is planned for Monday at the city’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, with a private funeral to follow the next day. Brooks’ June 12 death at the hands of officers who were called to the scene because he had fallen asleep in his car further heightened tensions over police brutality and racism in American policing that had been burning since the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis in late May.
