Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announces the charge of an officer for the fatal shooting of a black man./Credit:	Alameda County District Attorney

Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announces the charge of an officer for the fatal shooting of a black man./Credit: Alameda County District Attorney

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A White officer is charged in the fatal shooting of a Black man under California's tougher deadly-force law

A White officer has been charged with felony manslaughter in the fatal shooting in April of a Black man in a Walmart store, a crime alleged under a newly strengthened California law that requires police to use deadly force only when needed to defend human life, the county prosecutor said.