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| - The daughter of US civil rights icon Martin Luther King called Tuesday for more pressure to ensure equal justice for African Americans as Rayshard Brooks, whose killing in Atlanta by a policeman sparked angry protests, was buried in Atlanta. "Rayshard Brooks' death will not be in vain," Bernice A. King said at a funeral for Brooks, who was shot dead on June 12 after being detained by police at a Wendy's fast-food restaurant. "We cannot stop our cry for justice and our fight for freedom," she told Brooks' family, friends and supporters at Ebenezer Baptise Church, where her father had been pastor. "We cannot stop our demonstrations until our voices are heard and our demands for police reform are met." The latest in a series of police killings of African Americans, Brooks, 27, was detained by Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan who found him asleep in his car in the restaurant's drive-in line. Over a calm 20-minute interaction, they gave him an alcohol test and, after it proved positive, sought to arrest him for driving under the influence. After a brief struggle Brooks ran off with one of the officers' Tasers and Rolfe shot him twice in the back. Rolfe was fired and charged with murder while Brosnan, who agreed to cooperate with the investigation, was charged with aggravated assault. Atlanta District Attorney Paul Howard said Rolfe had no justification for shooting Brooks as he fled, and aggravated the case by kicking his body as he lay on the ground bleeding. Brooks' shooting came less than three weeks after a Minneapolis police officer's killing of handcuffed African American George Floyd on May 25 fuelled a national uproar over racism and police brutality. At the funeral, King called for a "revolution of values" across the country to end systematic racism. "There can be no peace in Atlanta nor anywhere in our nation where there is no justice," she said. "No justice, no peace," she added, repeating the chant of protestors around the country. pmh/bgs
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