A police officer responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex arrived on the scene, exited his vehicle and shot the man almost immediately.
Robert"Chip" Olsen, then a DeKalb County officer, fatally shot 27-year-old Anthony Hill on March 9, 2015.
Olsen is white and Hill was black. Against a national backdrop of officers not facing charges after shooting black men, the indictment itself is noteworthy. Hill had been medically discharged from the Air Force and was being treated for bipolar disorder but had stopped taking his medication because he didn't like the side effects, his girlfriend, Bridget Anderson, said right after he died.
During a May 2018 pretrial hearing on a request by Olsen's attorneys to dismiss the charges because Olsen had acted appropriately, the apartment complex maintenance supervisor said he saw Hill outside the leasing office in shorts and a T-shirt saying strange things, like,"The devil is coming," and asking for help. He got Hill to go to his apartment, but Hill reemerged without clothes. Leasing office staff called 911.
The second officer to arrive testified that Olsen said Hill ran at him and"started pounding on him." Olsen testified that he didn't remember that conversation. The fact that Hill was naked and unarmed is a major challenge for the defense, which will also have to explain why Olsen didn't use less-than-lethal force, like a stun gun or pepper spray, he said.
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