A woman accused of setting fire to the Wendy's fast-food restaurant in Atlanta where police shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of arson, authorities said. Natalie White, 29, was taken into custody by Fulton County sheriff's deputies on the
ATLANTA - A woman accused of setting fire to the Wendy's fast-food restaurant in Atlanta where police shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of arson, authorities said.
White's arrest was announced by the sheriff's office on Twitter. The county jail telephone line said White had been booked on two counts of first-degree arson. The identity of her attorney could not immediately be ascertained. Brooks' death on June 12 heightened tensions over police brutality and racial bias in U.S. law enforcement that have raged since the killing of George Floyd in police custody with a knee to his neck in Minneapolis in late May.
According to prosecutors' account, what began as a cordial encounter with police deteriorated into a physical struggle, with Brooks grabbing one of the officers' Tasers and running across the parking lot as he was shot from behind.
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