Los Angeles: Minneapolis' Somali-American police officers are "afraid" after a wave of community and online anger in response to last week's fatal police shooting of Australian Justine Damond.

Abdi Warsame, a Minneapolis City Council member, hit back at racist and anti-Muslim comments aimed at the US city's large Somali and East African community since Somali-born officer Mohamed Noor shot dead Australian yoga instructor Ms Damond in a residential alley last week.

"I've heard others describe this tragedy as a terrorist act, as a Muslim against a Christian," Mogadishu-born Mr Warsame told a press conference.

"These statements are dangerous and purely divisive, and they undermine our American values."