San Francisco police officers shot and killed a 27-year-old black woman near the city’s Bayview neighborhood on Thursday morning, authorities said.

The woman, who has not been identified, was allegedly in a stolen car when she was approached by two uniformed officers. The woman “did not comply originally with the investigation” and drove off, then quickly crashed the car, police chief Greg Suhr said at the scene of the shooting.

One of the officers, a sergeant, fired a single shot at the woman, striking her. The officers immediately removed the woman from her car and administered CPR, Suhr said.

The woman was transported to the hospital, where she died.

“This is exactly the kind of thing, with all of our reforms, that we’re trying to avoid,” Suhr told reporters.

The chief did not state whether or not the woman was armed.

The shooting comes amid a string of controversial shootings and scandals for the San Francisco Police Department.

It took place less than two miles from where a group of police shot and killed Mario Woods, a 26-year-old black man, in a barrage of gunfire on 2 December 2015. Bystander video of the shooting contradicted police statements that Wood, who was carrying a knife, extended his arm toward police prior to their opening fire.

The neighborhood, known as the Bayview, is one of the only remaining black neighborhoods in San Francisco, a city whose black population has fallen to less than 6%.

In April, police shot and killed Luis Gongora, a homeless man who they claimed had charged at the officers with a knife. Numerous eye witnesses challenged the police version of the incident, which surveillance footage showed unfolded in just 30 seconds.

Since 2015, the department has also been forced to reveal two separate batches of racist and homophobic text messages exchanged between groups of officers, forcing prosecutors to reexamine thousands of criminal cases.

The department is currently under a voluntary review by the Department of Justice’s office of community oriented policing services.

Four of the city’s 11 supervisors have called for chief Suhr to resign.

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