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Atlanta's Ebenezer prepares a viewing for Rayshard Brooks

Curtis Compton
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP

A public viewing for Rayshard Brooks, the black man fatally shot by a white Atlanta police officer in a Wendy's parking lot, is being held Monday at Ebenezer Baptist Church. 

The church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his father preached also will host Brooks’ funeral on Tuesday. Officer Garrett Rolfe fatally shot Brooks in the back after Brooks fired a Taser in his direction while running away following a struggle on June 12.  Rolfe was fired and is jailed without bond on a murder charge. Another officer was suspended and faces lesser charges.