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		</div><p>Atlanta’s police chief has resigned hours after a black man was fatally shot by officers in a struggle.</p>
<p>Authorities said the dead man had grabbed an officer’s Taser, but was running away when he was shot.</p>
<p>Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the resignation of Police Chief Erika Shields at a Saturday news conference as roughly 150 protesters marched outside the Wendy’s restaurant where 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot late on Friday.</p>
<p>The mayor also said she called for the immediate firing of the officer who opened fire at Mr Brooks.</p>
<p>“<i>I do not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force and have called for the immediate termination of the officer,</i>” Ms Bottoms said.</p>
<p>She said it was Ms Shields’ own decision to step aside as police chief and that she would remain with the city in an undetermined role.</p>
<p>Interim Corrections Chief Rodney Bryant would serve as interim police chief until a permanent replacement is found.</p>
<p>The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the shooting, said the deadly confrontation started with officers responding to a complaint that a man was sleeping in a car blocking the restaurant’s drive-thru lane.</p>
<p>The GBI said Mr Brooks failed a field sobriety test and then resisted officers’ attempts to arrest him.</p>
<p>The GBI released security camera video of the shooting on Saturday. The footage shows a man running from two police officers as he raises a hand, which is holding some type of object, towards an officer a few steps behind him.</p>
<p>The officer draws his gun and fires as the man keeps running, then falls to the ground in the car park.</p>
<p>GBI director Vic Reynolds said Mr Brooks had grabbed a Taser from one of the officers and appeared to point it at the officer as he fled, prompting the officer to reach for his gun.</p>
<p>“<i>In a circumstance like this where an officer is involved in the use of deadly force, the public has a right to know what happened,</i>” Mr Reynolds told a news conference on a day when protesters gathered at the scene of the shooting and in other areas of Atlanta.</p>
<p>The shooting came at a time of heightened tension over police brutality and calls for reforms across the US following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.</p>
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