Minneapolis police Chief Janee Harteau resigned Friday at the request of the mayor, who said she lost confidence in the chief following last week's shooting death of an unarmed Australian woman by a police officer. Authorities say that officers were responding to a 911 call about a possible sexual assault when she was killed. "The actions in question go against who we are in the department, how we train and the expectations we have for our officers," Harteau said. Her relationship with Hodges was strained, particularly after the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark during a confrontation with two white police officers in 2015. Harteau told the Star Tribune a year later that they had separated amid the strains of her being chief.

Source: CBC News July 21, 2017 23:51 UTC