The
resignation was announced by Mayor Ed Lee, who had asked him to quit.
Mr
Suhr and city police had in recent months come under fierce criticism over
fatal police shootings of several black suspects.
Reports
also recently emerged that a number of officers had exchanged racist text
messages.
The
mayor, who until now had supported Mr Suhr, added: "The progress we have
made has been meaningful but it hasn't been fast enough, not for me and not for
Greg, and that's why I have asked Chief Suhr for his resignation."
He
named Toney Chaplin as acting police chief.
The black woman, 27,
was shot and killed earlier on Thursday in the city's Bayview area.
Police
said one of their patrols approached her as she sat in a car that had been
reported stolen.
The
woman allegedly tried to drive off and then crashed into a nearby vehicle.
There
was no immediate indication that she had a weapon or had tried to run down a
police officer before the shooting, the city authorities said.
In April, five people
went on a hunger strike, demanding Mr Suhr be sacked. They ended their strike
last week.
Mr
Suhr, a veteran officer, was appointed city police chief in 2011.
There
are more than 1,000 fatal shootings by police in the US each year, and those
killed are disproportionately African-American.
Source:bbc.com
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