Phillip Jackson is a social justice reporter with HuffPost. Before this, he worked as a criminal justice reporter with the Baltimore Sun. Jackson has appeared on MSNBC with Lawrence O'Donnell and has worked in Philadelphia and Memphis covering policing, race and protests. Phillip can be reached at phillip.jackson@huffpost.
Sgt. Garrett Hardin, a deputy in Harris County, fatally shot Roderick Brooks last year.A grand jury on Thursday charged Garrett Hardin, a deputy in Harris County, Texas, with first-degree murder after last year’sOn July 8, 2022, Hardin responded to a 911 call from a Dollar General employee in Houston who was reporting a shoplifter. The employee said the shoplifter had hit her as he left the store but she did not believe he had a weapon.Hardin arrived at the scene and chased Brooks, 47.
Hardin was placed on administrative duty pending the case going before a grand jury, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. Following the indictment, the office said, he “will be relieved of duty” and faces potential disciplinary action. “After waiting over a year for this case to go to a grand jury, the family is relieved that the journey for justice on behalf of Roderick Brooks has begun,” an attorney for Brooks’ family said in a statement after the indictment. “They are looking forward to the prosecution of this rogue cop who used his badge and gun under the color of law to murder Roderick Brooks.”
“This is not his first time, but the family prays it will be his last time using his position to exact injustice and the taking of life on anyone else,” the attorney said.
Brooks’ family filed a wrongful death lawsuit last September, citing Hardin’s history of issues in the department. The lawsuit is ongoing.
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