Milwaukee shooting: Federal probe for Dontre Hamilton death

The US justice department says it will review the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer last April in Milwaukee.

The decision came after a local prosecutor said he would not bring charges against the officer.

He ruled that Christopher Manney had acted in self-defence when confronted in a park by Dontre Hamilton.

The launch of the federal investigation follows protests across the US over the shootings of two other black men.

In both cases grand juries decided not to indict the white police officers.

One of the incidents occurred in New York, where Mayor Bill de Blasio has called for the city to heal after the subsequent fatal shooting of two police officers.

Source: BBC