Cop charged with killing black man

ATLANTA: A white police officer in Montgomery, Alabama, has been charged with murder in the shooting last week of Gregory Gunn, a 58-year-old black man, officials said on Wednesday. Investigators would not discuss what led them to file the murder charge against the officer, Aaron Smith. But city officials on Wednesday afternoon appeared to back away from their initial assertions that Gunn, whose father was among the city’s first black police officers, had been carrying a stick or another object that could have been perceived as a weapon. “In the history of Montgomery, this is not one of our great days,” said Mayor Todd Strange. He said that the city would seek to fire Mr Smith, 23, who has been on the force in Montgomery, the Alabama capital, since 2012.