Naked, unarmed black man shot by white cop

A WHITE, Atlanta-area police officer in the United States shot dead a naked and unarmed black man acting erratically in his apartment complex and who was possibly suffering from a mental illness, the county police chief said.

A Dekalb County police officer responded to a caller, who said a man was “acting deranged, knocking on doors, and crawling around on the ground naked”, on Monday at about 1pm, county police chief Cedric Alexander said.

Alexander said the man ran at the officer, who backed up and ordered the person to stop before shooting him twice. Police did not find a weapon at the scene, he said. The incident occurred in a parking lot.

Monday’s shooting comes after a string of killings of unarmed black men by police in the United States.

Last year incidents in Ferguson in Missouri and New York City prompted nationwide protests, some of which turned violent.

This is at least the third black man to be shot dead by police since Friday, who either was or seemed unarmed.

– Reuters