Opinion: White Southerners, our souls are at stake. We must speak up now

Two bullets in the back of Rayshard Brooks. His crime? Falling asleep in a long Wendy’s pickup line in Atlanta. Drunk. Offered to walk to his sister’s nearby home. No. Officers talked to him for half an hour. Then went after him with their guns when he tried to escape, waving a Taser he had grabbed from one of the officers.

Two bullets in the back of Rayshard Brooks. His crime? Falling asleep in a long Wendy’s pickup line in Atlanta. Drunk. Offered to walk to his sister’s nearby home. No. Officers talked to him for half an hour. Then went after him with their guns when he tried to escape, waving a Taser he had grabbed from one of the officers.