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A federal judge dismissed criminal charges against a former Atlanta police officer in the death of Jimmy Atchison, ruling that the actions Sung Kim took leading to the shooting of the 21-year-old Black man during an arrest operation were "textbook self-defense."

U.S. District Judge Michael Brown said in his ruling Tuesday that "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."

Kim was indicted in December 2022 on charges including involuntary manslaughter, felony murder and aggravated assault in the wake of the 2019 killing of Atchison, the subject of an arrest warra

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