A former Atlanta police officer who said he feared for his life when he fatally shot an unarmed Black man more than six years ago had his charges dropped Tuesday afternoon.

Sung Kim, a 26-year veteran of the department, faced murder and other charges in the January 2019 task force shooting of Jimmy Atchison.

In dismissing the charges brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office, U.S. District Judge Michael Brown said Kim’s actions amounted to “textbook self-defense.”

“The evidence for self-defense is so overwhelming it is hard to understand how Georgia could have brought these charges in the first place, much less continued with them over the two and a half years since,” he said in his ruling.

Kim, who was working with the FBI’s fugitive task force at the time, testif

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