From [HERE] The family of Caine Rogers, a 22-year-old Black man shot and killed by a white Atlanta Police officer in 2016, has released new video from the night of the fatal shooting and are renewing their calls for action from the city.

Rogers' parents and their attorneys made the video public during a Tuesday morning news conference on Zoom - which they said they fought hard to obtain and share. 

Rogers was shot and killed by former Atlanta Police officer James Burns the night of June 22, 2016. Burns was responding as backup to a call of a suspicious person possibly breaking into cars at an apartment complex off Monroe Drive. 

When Burns arrived at the scene Rogers' vehicle was slowly pulling off. He flips on his lights and siren, but the car continues forward. Burns jumps out of his patrol car and orders the car to stop, but it keeps going. It is clear in the video that the Black man’s video posed no threat to the white officer. The officer’s car was pulled up and parked on the left side of the street (illegally) and the Rogers drove on the right side of the road - as any driver would.

Burns then fires a fatal shot through the front passenger window, hitting Rogers in the head.

Burns' dashcam video, which had been withheld from the public as part of the ongoing investigation, shows the aftermath.

Burns' dashcam video, which had been withheld from the public as part of the ongoing investigation, shows the aftermath.

"Burns was indicted two months after the incident in 2016. He was reindicted in 2018 to fix a procedural matter," according to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office. Four year’s later the case though is still working its way through the court system with a trial date yet to be set - a real aggressive prosecution no doubt - surely as rigorous and vigorous as when a white cop is murdered by a Black man.

During the Tuesday Zoom call, Rogers parents, who sued the City of Atlanta soon after the fatal shooting, said the delays have dragged on for too long and the inaction has grown to become "disrespectful." 

"Rogers parents, Melva Rogers and Deravis Thomas, are appreciative that Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms and the city of Atlanta have highlighted the death of Rayshard Brooks and the tasing of two HBCU students, but they wonder why the mayor or city has done nothing regarding their son's killing at the hands of APD officer James Burns," family attorneys with the Cochran Firm noted in a statement.

They said that the city - neither under the leadership of Mayor Kasim Reed nor Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms - has not contacted them to formally apologize for what happened. They said the city has also failed to take responsibility for the actions of the former officer.

"The city has yet to acknowledge us in any capacity," Deravis added. "No one has ever reached out to us to even apologize to us on behalf of this officer that they hired."

They're now asking to sit down with the mayor and have the lawsuit against the city - which is on hold because of the delays with the criminal case, and, now, COVID-19 - settled. They are also asking for the mayor to establish what they're calling a reconciliation commission to address past and unresolved cases of injustice involving APD officers. 

Meanwhile, they're hoping that the incoming Fulton County DA, Fani Willis, will continue the work current DA Paul Howard has done on the case and help push it forward to a resolution.

11Alive contacted both Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' office and Burns' attorney for comment.

Bottoms released the following statement:

"The fact that this incident occurred in 2016, before I was Mayor, yet remains unresolved four years later, only highlights the need for urgent action and reform.  My thoughts and prayers are with the family of Caine Rogers and every other family awaiting justice.” 

lol. Black rolebot’s administration inherited this case and her administration continued to withhold the “public video” and slow roll a criminal prosecution of one of its own. Mayor is a joke - what is the difference between a Black strawboss/puppetician and racist puppetician? They are essential to the refinement of racism white supremacy and the system of physical coercion.