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   There is no such thing as an African-American.  You're either   
   American or you're just a plain old black nigger.   
      
   (Reuters) - A white, Atlanta-area police officer shot dead a   
   naked and unarmed African-American 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 around 1 p.m. local time, county   
   police chief Cedric Alexander told reporters.   
      
   The officer encountered the man, who was not wearing any   
   clothes, in the parking lot, Alexander said at a conference   
   published online by local broadcaster Fox5.   
      
      
   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.   
      
   Monday's shooting comes after a string of killings of unarmed   
   black men by police in the United States. Last year, incidents   
   in Fergsuon, Missouri and New York City prompted nationwide   
   protests, some of which turned violent.   
      
   This is at least the third African-American man to be shot dead   
   by police since last Friday, who either was or seemed unarmed.   
      
   Dekalb County police has already faced protests after an officer   
   shot dead a black man who had called 911 when his girlfriend was   
   stabbed by an attacker in his apartment late last year,   
   according to local media.   
      
   Alexander said he could "reasonably assume" the person was   
   possibly suffering from mental illness, given his behavior. He   
   declined to identify the victim, but the New York Times reported   
   that he was 27-year-old Anthony Hill.   
      
   Alexander said the officer, who had been with the department for   
   seven years, was equipped with a taser at the time of the   
   shooting. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation would handle   
   Monday's incident, he said.   
      
   Police near Denver last Friday shot dead an unarmed man who was   
   a wanted fugitive. On the same day, an officer in Madison,   
   Wisconsin, shot dead a 19-year-old, prompting some 2,000   
   students to march in the state's capital on Monday.   
      
   (Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Nick   
   Macfie and Raissa Kasolowsky)   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/10/us-usa-police-georgia-   
   idUSKBN0M60CI20150310   
      
        
      
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