‘Definitely wrong on both sides’: Ben Carson condemns handling of Rayshard Brooks police killing

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U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson disapproved of how the events surrounding the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta have unfolded, citing complications in the case as a whole.

“There is definitely wrong on both sides here, but you know the one guy lost his life, and I guess one of the things that should come out of this is when we are training police officers, it should be automatic that if you take your gun out, you have made the decision that whatever has happened is worth taking someone’s life,” Carson said Wednesday on Fox News’s The Story with Martha MacCallum.

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