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Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Yahoo
‘I was doing my job:' Atlanta bar employee recounts fight with APD officer
Atlanta police are still investigating a bar fight between an employee and an off-duty police officer. Investigators say the employee, Rae Penrice, is the current suspect in the case. Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes spoke with Penrice on Friday to get his side of the story. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] 'It was like something above the law,' he said. Several witnesses told Channel 2 Action News that the officer, Garrett Rolfe, started the fight and should've been the one to go to jail. Rolfe, the same officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, is currently on leave while police investigate. 'I was doing my job, just greeting customers and cleaning up and making sure the front straight," Penrice described. He says a female coworker at X in midtown Atlanta told him that Rolfe and a friend had taken photos of her after accusing her of overcharging for drinks. 'I told them, 'I'm Rae, I work here and y'all were asked to leave, so why won't you?' And in the course of me saying those words, I was struck, I was hit. I was hit several times,' he recalled. 'I got hit right here in my temple area, I got hit in my neck, I got hit right here underneath my jaw. And those were the ones that were substantial because those were the ones I felt for a few days. And at that point, I just had to defend myself after the attack.' RELATED STORIES: 911 calls shed new light on moments before employee, APD officer got into bar fight Officer who shot, killed Rayshard Brooks in 2020 under investigation after Atlanta bar fight Former neighbor defends officer charged with shooting Rayshard Brooks He says he hit the officer to stop the attack. Penrice called 911 after he says a group of people followed him to the back alley as he took out the trash. The bar employee was subsequently arrested after police arrived. Fernandes reached out to police who said they cannot comment until the investigation is over. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Daily Mail
05-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Bikini-clad girls are hunted by police after thugs attack off-duty police officer and throw drink over her when she tries to stop them barge through barriers without paying
A posse of bikini-clad girls are being hunted by police after violently attacking an off-duty police officer. The thugs launched themselves on the brave officer at Wood Green London Underground station, north London at 4.20pm on Thursday, June 12 after she challenged the girls who had attempted to barge through on to the train barriers without tickets. The force said the officer was then attacked by the mob, who punched and kicked her before throwing a drink over her head. CCTV images of the shocking incident show the alleged alleged attackers included four teenage girls and two teenage boys. Anyone with information is asked to contact British Transport Police by texting 61016, quoting 453 of 12 June. A spokesperson said: 'Detectives investigating an assault at Wood Green Underground Station have today released these images in connection. At around 4.20pm on Thursday, June 12 the victim, an off duty police officer, challenged a group of people who 'She was then set upon by the group who punched and kicked her and threw a drink over her head. Officers would like to speak to the people pictured as they believe they could have information which could help their investigation. 'Anyone who recognises them is asked to contact British Transport Police by texting 61016 or by calling 0800 40 50 40, quoting reference 453 of 12 June. Alternatively, you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.'
Daily Mail
19-06-2025
- Daily Mail
Shocking moment Spanish cop chokes 'thief' to death after he 'stole his phone' - as members of the public plead with the officer to stop
This is the horrific moment an off-duty Spanish cop choked a suspected phone thief to death in front of passersby as they pleaded with him to 'let him breathe'. The unnamed 58-year-old policeman was out for dinner with a friend on Tuesday in the Spanish town of Torrejon de Ardoz in northeastern Madrid when a man allegedly stole his phone and ran off. The alleged thief was chased by the cop, who slammed him to the ground and held him in a neck restraint. A disturbing video shows the police officer lying on the ground as he holds the man in a deadly chokehold. 'Call the police', the cop calls out to onlookers as his victim lies motionlessly on the pavement. Neighbours are heard pleading with him to let go of the man, telling him: '[The police] are nearly let him breathe'. But he ignores them and continues to press into the man's neck. 'Sir, please get off him. The police will be here let him breathe a little bit', a man off-camera says. The policeman's friend, also understood to be an off-duty officer, is seen crouching on the ground as a passerby kicks him. Police arrive at the scene, and the video cuts out. The suspected phone snatcher, a 35-year-old man of Moroccan origin, was unresponsive by the time officers arrived at the scene and soon went into cardiac arrest. Despite efforts from paramedics to save him, he was pronounced dead at the scene. First responders said he died by strangulation, but an autopsy will be carried out to determine his cause of death. The unnamed cop was arrested and interviewed by authorities. He is set to appear in court on Thursday. The two off-duty cops are understood to have been drinking. A judge investigating the case has requested that the detained police officer be given a breathalyser test. Sources close to the investigation say the victim had recently been released from prison, Spanish newspaper El Pais reports. The shocking incident has sparked outrage in Spain, with politicians condemning the treatment of the suspected thief and demanding an immediate investigation. 'Two police officers, who were apparently under the influence of alcohol, have murdered a person in Torrejón. This reflects how institutional racism and abuse of power are normalized, even outside of working hours,' a spokesperson for political party Más Madrid spokesperson said in Congress. 'We demand an immediate investigation into this alleged murder due to asphyxiation caused by a police officer in Torrejón', Más Madrid added in a social media post. The clip, which has gone viral on social media, has also prompted horrified responses from Spanish internet users. 'Murdering a person for a simple phone. An off-duty municipal police officer suffocates a is how the capitalist world is, a telephone is worth more than a person's life. What a disgusting society!', one X user wrote. Another user likened the strangling of the man in Madrid to the brutal killing of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in 2020. ''I can't breathe.' These were the words George Floyd uttered minutes before his death when a New York police officer killed him by asphyxiation. The same incident was repeated today in Madrid', an X user wrote on the social platform. Floyd was killed on May 2025, 2020, in a brutal act of police brutality when cop Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nine minutes. His killing cued widespread protests in the US and propelled the Black Lives Matter movement to the forefront of American politics. The death of a man at the hands of police in Spain comes years after M adrid was rocked by violent riots when a Senegalese street vendor died while being chased by cops in 2018 Mame Mbaye Ndiaye, 35, had been selling his wares on the central Puerta del Sol square, which attracts scores of tourists daily, when police intervened. Fellow vendors said police chased him through the streets, forcing him to run with his heavy merchandise wrapped in a sheet. He went into cardiac arrest and died in a street close to his home in the Madrid neighbourhood of Lavapies some 15 to 20 minutes later. When Mr Ndiaye suffered the cardiac arrest, he was with a friend who called the police. Several officers arrived and tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate him. His death sparked outrage in the Spanish capital, resulting in violent clashes between police and protestors.
