A CNN crew was harassed in Atlanta following the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks.
CNN national correspondent Natasha Chen said her team was confronted by demonstrators Saturday night outside of a Wendy’s following the news that Brooks, a 27-year-old black man, was shot and killed there by the police the previous night.
“There were protesters very angry that we were recording this and tried to block our cameras … and at that point they got aggressive, and our camera, our CNN camera was broken,” Chen said during a segment following the incident on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
She recounted that the protesters tried to prevent her from recording with her cellphone. The team left the scene, she said. The Wendy’s was later set on fire.
Brooks died Friday night after he failed a sobriety test and reportedly had a struggle with a police officer over a Taser outside of a Wendy’s. The death prompted Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields to step down, the officer who shot Brooks, Garrett Rolfe, to be fired.
CNN, which is based in Atlanta, experienced its headquarters being vandalized earlier this summer when protests and riots broke out in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
