The police were removed from service after the incident and have since submitted their resignation application.

The local police chief has also resigned after the events that led to renewed Black Lives Matter protests.

On Wednesday, it became clear that the charge against the police who shot the man is manslaughter.

The female police officer stopped a 20-year-old man for a traffic offense on Sunday, April 11 in the Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

According to the police, the unarmed man then left his car and the policewoman fired her service weapon.

This after she is said to have mistaken her electric pistol and her sharply charged weapon.

The man was hit in the chest and died of his injuries.

The fatal shooting occurred just 16 kilometers from the ongoing trial in which a police officer is accused of causing George Floyd's death - the incident that led to the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.

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The situation in Minneapolis is already tense due to the ongoing trial after George Floyd's death.

Photo: TT

The text is updated