You might think that it would be difficult to cause any kind of serious problem in a Wendy’s drive-thru. The concept is pretty simple: You sit in the car, and when it’s your turn, you drive up, get your order, and then you drive off. In an orderly society, it’s a pretty straight-forward, fool-proof system.
But in the days after George Floyd was canonized, of course, all rules were suspended. Things started breaking down. Accordingly, on June 12 of that year, a 27-year-old man named Rayshard Brooks decided to treat the Wendy’s drive-thru like a motel room. He got drunk out of his mind and passed out in his car, as he waited to get his hamburger and frosty. Then, when two police officers arrived in an attempt to keep the drive-thru moving, Brooks started fighting with one of the officers, stole his taser, and began running away. A few seconds later, Brooks turned around and pointed the stolen taser at the officers, at which point he was shot and killed. It was not only a justified police shooting but perhaps one of the most justified police shootings ever caught on film.
Nevertheless, just a few days later, the top prosecutor in Fulton County Georgia, a guy named Paul Howard,…
