Mourners are expected to fill the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church on Tuesday afternoon for the funeral of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man who was shot and killed by police outside an Atlanta fast-food restaurant almost two weeks ago.
While Brooks will be remembered at an invitation-only service, the funeral will be broadcast on the church’s internet site, starting about 1 p.m. EDT .
Most mourners on Monday never met Brooks, a 27-year-old father of three, but like Janice Danvers, 67, of Portsmouth, Virginia, wanted to attend Brooks’ viewing. Brooks’ death after being shot twice in the back, with one round piercing his heart, heightened tensions over police brutality and racism in U.S. policing that have raged since the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis in late May.
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