BREAKING: Former Georgia police officer Robert 'Chip' Olsen, convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes in the fatal shooting of an unarmed naked man, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
FILE - In this June 6, 2016 file photo, former DeKalb Police Officer Robert Olsen stands during his arraignment in Decatur, Ga. Olsen, a former Georgia police officer faces up to 35 years in prison when he’s sentenced Friday, Nov. 1, 2019 for the fatal shooting of an unarmed, naked man.
FILE - In this June 6, 2016 file photo, former DeKalb Police Officer Robert Olsen stands during his arraignment in Decatur, Ga. Olsen, a former Georgia police officer faces up to 35 years in prison when he’s sentenced Friday, Nov. 1, 2019 for the fatal shooting of an unarmed, naked man.
DECATUR, Ga. — A former Georgia police officer who was convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, naked man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison.to a call of a naked man behaving erratically outside an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015 when he fatally shot 26-year-old Anthony Hill, an Air Force veteran who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD.
DeKalb County Superior Court Judge LaTisha Dear Jackson sentenced Olsen to a total of 20 years, with 12 years to serve, followed by eight years of probation.Olsen is white and Hill was black. Against a backdrop of white officers around the country frequently not being charged or convicted after shooting black men, Olsen’s trial overlapped with the trials of two other white police officers who shot unarmed black men.
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