Protesters accuse white officer of killing innocent black

ATLANTA - Hundreds of protesters lined the sidewalks near police headquarters Monday to protest the shooting of a black teenager accused of trying to run over an officer. <br> <br> Eighteen-year-old Corey Ward was shot and killed by a plainclothes policeman early on July 14 in Atlanta&#39;s Buckhead nightclub district. <br> <br> Atlanta police said officer R.S. Bunn shot Ward in the head as Ward charged his mother&#39;s Chevy Tahoe at him. The officer was pinned between the Tahoe and a police car. <br> <br> Ward&#39;s family has said the teen was doing nothing wrong and had no way of knowing Bunn was a police officer because he wasn&#39;t wearing a uniform. Family members and friends said Ward fled in his car because he was afraid of a white man brandishing a gun. <br> <br> About 250 protesters marched outside City Hall East Monday during afternoon rush hour, winning honks of support from commuters. Many marchers wore T-shirts with Bunn&#39;s senior portrait and the words, ``Always Smiling.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> A woman who described herself as a family friend, Rita Owens, said the killing was racial profiling. <br> <br> The man who organized the march, Atlanta activist Markel Hutchins, spoke to the crowd using a bullhorn and led a singing of ``We Shall Overcome.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Hutchins said, ``If we allow them to kill Corey unchecked, they will kill countless others. Because we have a black police chief, we think we&#39;re immune to racial profiling.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> The officer has been placed on administrative leave.