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A white US police officer fatally shot a unarmed African American man in Atlanta, Georgia, authorities said.

The officer, who was responding to reports of a suspicious person, fired two shots killing the black man who was running around in an apartment complex.

The man was in the parking lot of the complex when the officer encountered him. He charged at the officer who "stepped backward, drew his weapon and fired two shots" striking the victim in the upper body.
However, the public safety director of DeKalb County, Cedric Alexander explained that in the light of the man running around aimlessly in the apartment complex, and then it would be more likely to assume that the man might have been experiencing some mental health issues.

Alexander said that the officer could have used his stun gun and pepper spray he had access to at the time of the shooting, asking why he chose to use his gun.

The fatal shooting came at the time that US police were under harsh criticism for using brutal tactics against people of color and minorities.
Alexander said "What I have requested here [is] a result of what's going on currently across this country as it relates to police shootings" which is certainly "a concern to many Americans".

The incident happened just two days after another white officer fatally shot an unarmed African American teenager in Madison, Wisconsin.
Officer Matt Kenny, 45, shot 19-year-old Tony Robinson during an altercation in an apartment in Madison.

Henceforth, the killings of several unarmed black men by white police officers in recent months and decisions by grand juries not to indict the officers had triggered large-scale protests across the US.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team