White Cop Kills Unarmed Naked Black Man in His Apartment Complex

The officer was responding to reports of a suspicious man on Monday. The caller had said a man was “acting deranged, knocking on doors, and crawling around in the ground naked.”

When the cop arrived, the man, identified as Anthony Hill, 27, ran at him. The officer ordered him to stop while backing up, drew his weapon and fired two shots at the naked man, said Cedric Alexander, the public safety director of Dekalb County.

One witness said the officer told Hill to go inside or he was going to get arrested.

“He was acting crazy but he was calm like he didn’t know where he was. He was like kind of lost in his face,” the witness said.

The police department turned over the case to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations to launch an independent probe, after police found no weapon at the scene.

"What I have requested here [is] a result of what's going on currently across this country as it relates to police shootings," Alexander told reporters. “The officer was white; the deceased man was African-American.”

The public safety director believes the man may have had a mental illness.

"I can only reasonably assume that if he was running around the apartment complex naked, I believe we can make the assumption there may have been some mental health experience that he might have been having," Alexander said.

Alexander also questioned why the officer drew his weapon instead of using his stun gun and pepper spray. He said this and other incidents highlight the need for more police training on how to deal with the mentally ill.

"That's becoming more and more apparent," he said. "We have already, as many departments have begun to do, look at how to expand our mental health training when we find it certainly necessary to do so. Because it appears that we're seeing more and more of these cases across the country in which police are engaging with those who appear to be in distress."

The police department has not disclosed the officer’s name, but said the seven-year veteran was placed on administrative leave.