Community leaders and attorneys for the family of Roderick Brooks are holding a news conference Tuesday to discuss the officer-involved shooting that took Brooks’ life following an alleged shoplifting incident.
The community leaders will be joined by Brooks’ family at an event scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
Watch the livestream in the video player above.
Brooks was reportedly shot and killed by a Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy back on July 8.
Deputies said the person who fired was a sergeant who pursued Brooks on a foot chase after deputies said he stole from a Dollar General on FM 1960 and pushed the manager at the store.
Authorities say Brooks was able to get ahold of the sergeant’s taser. However, the family’s attorney said they were told otherwise by several witnesses and said there were pictures and videos circulating.
The family of Roderick Brooks said they expect a full investigation of the moments leading up to Brooks’ death and that the video they were shown was ‘doctored up.’
“No more. We won’t see Roderick anymore. We have to go to the grave site and put flowers out there. All we have is memories,” the victim’s sister Demetria Brooks-Glace said.
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The community leaders will be joined by Brooks’ family at an event scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
Watch the livestream in the video player above.
Brooks was reportedly shot and killed by a Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy back on July 8.
Deputies said the person who fired was a sergeant who pursued Brooks on a foot chase after deputies said he stole from a Dollar General on FM 1960 and pushed the manager at the store.
Authorities say Brooks was able to get ahold of the sergeant’s taser. However, the family’s attorney said they were told otherwise by several witnesses and said there were pictures and videos circulating.
The family of Roderick Brooks said they expect a full investigation of the moments leading up to Brooks’ death and that the video they were shown was ‘doctored up.’
“No more. We won’t see Roderick anymore. We have to go to the grave site and put flowers out there. All we have is memories,” the victim’s sister Demetria Brooks-Glace said.
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