Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms revealed that the city's police chief, Erika Shields, resigned yesterday after demonstrations protesting the killing of a black youth by police fire after he slept in his car while she was in the queue of a fast food restaurant.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance said she accepted the resignation of police chief Erica Shields after the killing of Richard Brooks, 27, as dozens of protesters gathered at the shooting site south of downtown.
"I do not think that the use of lethal force was justified and demanded the immediate dismissal of the officer," Butmes told a news conference, adding that the officer who fired the shot was fired.
The authorities have not yet revealed the names of the two officers involved in the shooting, both of whom are white.
Atlanta police have not yet responded to a request for comment. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it was investigating the accident.
Police said Brooks resisted arrest after failing a field test that revealed whether he was drunk or drug users.
Brooks' death came after weeks of mass anti-racist protests across the United States after the death of African-American George Floyd after a policeman perched on his neck for nearly nine minutes during his arrest.
Georgia investigators said the video, taken by an eyewitness, was helping them to investigate.
Office director Vic Reynolds said at a press conference that a video of cameras inside the restaurant appeared to show Brooks fleeing and holding his hand with the officer's stun gun.
Brooks ran to cross nearly six cars and turned his back towards an officer, directing what was in his hand.
"At this point, the officer removed the pistol from his wallet, shot and hit Mr. Brooks in the parking garage, and he fell," Reynolds said.
The recording, posted on social media, Brooks appears on the ground outside his car, as he wrestles with two policemen before he can escape, fearing arrest.
Prennewolds said the brawl started when the two police tried to arrest Brooks.
In the video that a bystander picked up, Brooks seemed to snatch a thunderbolt from one of the policemen he used to apparently stun the young man's leg.
After a few seconds, he freed and started running. The recording then showed that one of the policemen shot the thunderbolt toward Brooks while running behind him, and then the two policemen then left the registration window.
In the video, shots are heard with someone screaming, "You fell for it!", And Brooks then appears, apparently motionless, on the ground.
Fulton County Attorney Paul Howard said in an emailed statement that his office "has already begun an extensive and independent investigation into the incident" while awaiting the FBI's findings.
Protesters closed a major highway in Atlanta and set fire to the restaurant where police shot Young Brooks as he tried to escape from detention.
And footage on a local TV station showed the restaurant consuming the fire for more than 45 minutes before the firefighting teams arrived, accompanied by a number of police. By this time the building next to a refueling station had turned into a pile of charred debris.
Other demonstrators participated in a march to Highway 75 and stopped traffic before the police intervened.
Brooks' lawyers said he was the father of a little girl who was going to celebrate her birthday on Saturday.
Lawyers representing the Brooks family told reporters that Atlanta police had no right to use lethal force even if they were fired from the stun gun, which is a non-lethal weapon.