In my 38 years at the bar, I have seen overcharging often enough by prosecutors, but these charges are circling Pluto:

Prosecutors brought murder charges Wednesday against the white Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in the back, saying that the black man posed no threat when he was gunned down and that the officer kicked him and offered no medical treatment as he lay dying on the ground.

Brooks was holding a stun gun he had snatched from officers but was 18 feet, 3 inches away when he was shot by Garrett Rolfe and was running away at the time, District Attorney Paul Howard said in announcing the charges five days after the killing outside a Wendy’s restaurant rocked the city.

The felony murder charge against Rolfe carries life in prison without parole or the death penalty. He was also charged with 10 other offenses punishable by decades behind bars.

“Mr. Brooks never presented himself as a threat,” Howard said.

Go here to read the rest.  Go here to read the facts of the shooting.  Let’s unpack this shall we?  First let’s take a look at Georgia law regarding the use of deadly force, something the Atlanta DA obviously has not done:

(a) A person is justified in threatening or using force against another when and to the extent that he or she reasonably believes that such threat or force is necessary to defend himself or herself or a third person against such other’s imminent use of unlawful force; however, except as provided in Code Section 16-3-23 , a person is justified in using force which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm only if he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury to himself or herself or a third person or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.

Georgia Code Title 16. Crimes and Offenses § 16-3-21

So the issue is whether the stolen taser pointed at the cops by Rayshard Brooks could have caused death or great bodily harm.  Well, that is easy.  About a thousand people have died immediately after being tased in the US over the past two decades.  Far more have been seriously injured after receiving a taser’s 50,000 volts.  Being tased is preferable to being shot, but it is a serious, and potentially lethal, action.  Oh, and the Atlanta DA agrees with me.  How do I know this?

Update:  Blue Flu hits Atlanta:

Decaturish reported that Vince Champion, southeast regional director of the International Brotherhood of Police officers, said that police officers had stopped answering calls midshift.

“The union, we would never advocate this. We wouldn’t advocate a blue flu,” Champion said. “We don’t know the numbers. Apparently we’re learning that command staff are asking outlying counties for support and aren’t getting it.”

“Why would you put your officer in Fulton County and take the chance of this happening?” Champion told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “You have an officer who just heard what Paul Howard said, saying he’s going to be in prison for the rest of his life or put to death, and now he’s got to surrender.”

“Blue Flu”, the name given to such job actions by police departments, is a job action used by police unions and officers who wish to raise objections to policies enacted by city officials or other departments. Officers generally call in sick or slow down there response to calls to show there displeasure with policies.

The incident comes just hours after Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced that fired Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe is charged with felony murder and several other counts in connection to the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks, who was killed during an encounter with police at a Wendy’s restaurant off University Avenue Friday night, June 12. The police union has disputed the charges, and accuse the Filton County DA of “activism in place of applying the law.”

Despite the denial from the Atlanta Police, rumors persisted that the police in those zones would not respond to any calls other than one for an officer down. In addition, there were multiple reports on social media that listeners to the police scanner of those zones noted the lack of regular chatter on those channels.

Go here to read the rest.  I suspect this Blue Flu will become a greater epidemic nationally than the Wuhan Flu.  Cops are essential to preserving civilization.  If their political masters give every sign of being in league with those wishing to destroy civilization, and throwing officers who do their duty to the looter wolves, what cop in his right mind is going to risk his life for them and the idiot voters who placed them in power?  Call this Officer Friday Shrugged.  Protect and Serve, the motto of the police, carries the implicit qualifier that there must be something worth protecting and serving.  Leftist politicians in blue cities and states are doing their worst to convince cops that all they are protecting and serving are politicians who despise them and who will ruin their lives with criminal charges whenever they find it expedient to do so.