Chaos erupted at a Minneapolis press conference Friday night as the city’s mayor nominated a new police chief amid city-wide anger in the wake of the officer-involved shooting of an Australian bride-to-be. 
 
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 Minneapolis residents and demonstrators attended the news conference, and one man began shouting down Mayor Betsy Hodges, yelling, “we do not want you as mayor” and that she is “ineffective” to applause from those gathered. As Hodges left the room, the demonstrators chanted “Bye Bye Betsy!” Signs with the phrases "Messy Betsy" and "You are next" were seen in the crown, The Associated Press reports. 
 
 About an hour later, Hodges returned to speak to the gathered press and take questions. The mayor had asked for Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau resignation after she “lost confidence in the chief’s ability to lead.” She announced that she has nominated Assistant Chief Medaria "Rondo" Arradondo to lead the department. 
 
 Earlier Friday night, Harteau had announced that she is resigning in the wake of the deadly shooting last weekend. 
 
 Maria Alejandra Cardona/Minnesota Public Radio via AP 
 
 "[L]ast Saturday’s tragedy, as well as some other recent incidents, have caused me to engage in deep reflection," Harteau said in part in a statement posted on the police department's Facebook page. 
 
 She continued: "The recent incidents do not reflect the training and procedures we’ve developed as a Department. Despite the MPD’s many accomplishments under my leadership over these years and my love for the City, I have to put the communities we serve first. I’ve decided I am willing to step aside to let a fresh set of leadership eyes see what more can be done for the MPD to be the very best it can be." 
 
 Justine Ruszczyk, 40, who went by her fiancé Don Damond's last name, was killed by a police officer on July 15 after she called 911 to report what she believed was a sexual assault occurring near her home. 
 
 Authorities said officers Matthew Harrity and Mohammed Noor responded to Ruszczyk's 911 call, but never found a suspect. They were startled by a loud noise and then Ruszczyk approached the driver's side of the car and Noor, who was on the passenger side, fired his gun through the open driver's side window, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. 
 
 Harrity's attorney, Fred Bruno, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that it was "certainly reasonable" for the police officers to assume they could be the target of an ambush. 
 
 Noor has not made any statements to investigators and has declined to be interviewed, according to Minnesota Department of Public Safety. 
 
 Both officers have been placed on standard paid administrative leave pending the investigation. Ruszczyk's death has been ruled a homicide. 
 
 Police have launched an internal affairs review of the officers' use of force. 
 
 Harteau faced criticism for her notable absence in the days following Ruszczyk's death, but she told reporters Thursday that she was in a remote area, "backpacking in the mountains," which made it difficult for her to return. She was scheduled to return on Aug. 1, she said. 
 
 Hodges said in a statement that she asked for Harteau's resignation. 
 
 "I've lost confidence in the Chief’s ability to lead us further — and from the many conversations I've had with people around our city, especially this week, it is clear that she has lost the confidence of the people of Minneapolis as well," Hodges said. “In conversation with the Chief today, she and I agreed that she would step aside to make way for new leadership. I asked Chief Harteau for her resignation, she tendered it, and I have accepted it.” 
 
 On Wednesday, the Minneapolis Police Department released transcripts from Ruszczyk’s Saturday’s 911 call, detailing what she believed was a sexual assault occurring near her home in Minneapolis' Fulton neighborhood. 
 
 "I can hear someone out the back and I -- I'm not sure if she's having sex or being raped," Ruszczyk tells the 911 operator, according to the transcript released by police. 
 
 Robert Bennett, the attorney representing both Damond and family of Ruszczyk, told ABC News this week "the family wants justice in its largest sense." 
 
 "I think Justine is the last person you’d expect to be killed by police," Bennett said. 
 
 Bennett said that the idea that Justine Damond could have been thought of as a threat is "patently, utterly, ridiculous." 
 
 "If that’s the excuse they want to use to shoot people, I guess they can use any excuse they want, we’re all in danger," the attorney said. 
 
 The Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Friday that a witness to the shooting has been identified and interviewed, though the agency did not disclose what the witness, a bicyclist, said. ||||| Video (01:55) : In her first public remarks since returning from a hiking trip in Colorado Thursday, Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau condemned the actions of officer Mohamed Noor. 
 
 In her first public appearance since a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Justine Damond, Chief Janeé Harteau said the department will work on regaining the public’s trust, acknowledging that “Justine didn’t have to die.” 
 
 The shooting and any possible misconduct are still under investigation by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but Harteau repeated several times at a news conference Thursday that the death was unnecessary and the officers should have turned on their body cameras, casting the shooting by officer Mohamed Noor as “one individual’s actions” and not reflective of the department. 
 
 “Based on the publicly released information from the BCA, this should not have happened,” Harteau said, referencing a preliminary investigative report released earlier in the week. “On our squad cars you will find the words ‘To protect with courage and serve with compassion.’ This did not happen.” 
 
 “I believe the actions in question go against who we are as a department, how we train and the expectations we have for our officers,” she continued. “These were the actions and judgments of one individual.” 
 
 Harteau stopped short of calling the shooting was legally unjustified, saying “that’ll be part of the criminal investigation.” 
 
 The brief but expansive news conference gave no more information as to why Noor shot Damond after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault last Saturday in south Minneapolis. The death of the 40-year-old spiritual teacher, who was engaged to be married, drew international attention and widespread mourning. In an interview Thursday, Mayor Betsy Hodges also reiterated calls to reform the city’s body camera policy. 
 
 Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau made her first remarks Thursday since the high-profile shooting death of Justine Damond. Behind Harteau was Assistant Chief Medaria Arradondo. 
 
 Harteau’s news conference, attended by several members of the Australian media, spanned from Noor’s training to why Harteau had been absent from public eye since the shooting. Harteau said she did not know Noor well, and had only spoken to him in passing, but that he “absolutely” performed well in his training. She dismissed claims from critics such as former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who on Wednesday called Noor, who is Somali-American, “an affirmative action hire.” “This is about an individual officer’s actions. It is not about race or ethnicity,” Harteau said. “We have a very robust training and hiring process. This officer completed that training very well, just like every officer. He was very suited to be on the street.” 
 
 Harteau emphatically maintained that based on what she knows, both officers body cameras should have been running. Plans are in place to enhance the current policy for when they should be on — and that’s in multiple scenarios, she said, “Certainly when you’re going to have interaction when you’re dispatched to a call.” 
 
 However, she said the program is only eight months old, so “It’s not second nature for officers to put those cameras on yet.” 
 
 Harteau said she spoke with Damond’s fiancé, Don Damond, who told her he worried the shooting would send a message to the community that it’s unsafe to call 911. 
 
 “Although disheartening, I understand the fear and why it exists,” she said. “This has had a negative impact on the community trust we’ve built. Moving forward, we will work toward regaining the trust with everything we do.” 
 
 Harteau said she wishes Noor would reconsider his decision to refuse to be interviewed by investigators, because “there are questions that need to be answered and he is the only one that has those answers.” 
 
 Noor’s partner that night, Matthew Harrity, told investigators that as he was driving in an alley he was startled by a loud sound near their squad, according to a BCA report released Tuesday. 
 
 Damond approached the driver’s side window of the squad car “immediately afterward,” according to the BCA. Noor shot from the passenger seat, across his partner and through the window, striking Damond in the abdomen. She died at the scene 20 minutes later. 
 
 Asked about firing the shot from inside the squad, Harteau was succinct: “That’s not how we train.” 
 
 The BCA has declined to provide any additional information into the investigation. A spokesman for the Hennepin County attorney’s office said Thursday that the BCA has not provided a timeline for when the investigation will be completed. 
 
 Harteau has been out of town since the shooting, and she said Thursday she was backpacking in remote mountains on a personal trip, but receiving briefings. 
 
 Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges expressed similar sentiments to Harteau Thursday, saying that the fatal police shooting of Justine Damond should not have happened — and that the lack of body camera footage from the incident is unacceptable. 
 
 “Given the facts that we know that the investigators have given us, those body cameras should have been on,” Hodges said in an interview. “Why weren’t they?” 
 
 Hodges said she expects the police department “to make any and all changes needed to our policy so that we can be sure we will have bodycam footage when we need it,” and to take the events surrounding Saturday’s shooting into consideration when making those changes. 
 
 Earlier this week, Damond’s family hired Twin Cities attorney Robert Bennett, who is known for working on high-profile police misconduct cases. He recently represented Philando Castile’s mother in a lawsuit, settled for $3 million, over the police shooting death of her son. 
 
 Bennett said Damond’s relatives are seeking a transparent investigation, body camera policy reform and changes in how officers are trained and selected. He added that they also want swift discipline — including possible termination — for Noor. 
 
 Following the criminal investigation, Bennett said it is likely Damond’s family here and in Australia will consider a lawsuit. 
 
 “I can’t conceive the circumstances where they wouldn’t,” he said. 
 
 Staff writers Hannah Covington, Brandon Stahl and Miguel Otárola contributed to this report.
– Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau has stepped down at the request of Mayor Betsy Hodges, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Harteau is leaving the police department less than a week after Justine Damond was shot and killed by officer Mohamed Noor. "I’ve lost confidence in the chief’s ability to lead us further—and from the many conversations I’ve had with people around our city, especially this week, it is clear that she has lost the confidence of the people of Minneapolis as well," Hodges said in a statement. According to the New York Times, authorities have yet to offer any explanation for the shooting of Damond. The 40-year-old Australian woman had called 911 Saturday night to report a possible sexual assault near her home. Harteau had been widely criticized for not returning to Minneapolis from vacation quickly enough following the shooting. She said she was "backpacking in the mountains" at the time, so it was difficult to get back, ABC News reports. Minneapolis city council members had also expressed a desire for Harteau to resign Friday. "Last Saturday’s tragedy, as well as some other recent incidents, have caused me to engage in deep reflection," Harteau said in a statement announcing her resignation. Harteau had been with the Minneapolis Police Department for 30 years. Mayor Hodges is facing re-election in November and has been criticized for her handling of police issues. The shooting of Damond was ruled a homicide and is under investigation.