North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper is also calling on Charlotte officials to release police video of the shooting of a man by an officer this week.
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Charlotte has been rocked by three nights of violence-marred protests, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency in the southern USA city.
He was shot and killed during a parking lot encounter with police searching for another person wanted for arrest.
The footage, recorded by Keith Lamont Scott’s wife and released Friday by his family, offers a raw look at how the situation unfolded but does not show whether Scott had a gun as police have said.
Scott’s family has viewed the police footage and are leading calls for it to be made public.
The police say he had a handgun. Police have said he did, while witnesses say Scott held only a book.
“Don’t shoot him. He has no weapon”, Rakeyia Scott can be heard saying. “He has a TBI (traumatic brain injury)”, Rakeyia Scott says.
Several neighbours have told AFP Mr Scott, 43, was disabled, and had a stutter among other issues.
“Don’t shoot him! He has no weapon”, she can be heard telling officers as they yell at Scott, “Drop the gun!”
“Don’t let them break the windows”. At one point, she tells her husband to get out of the auto so police don’t break the windows.
“Keith. Don’t you do it”, she adds, a moment before the sound of four quick gunshots, at which point the phone is pointed away from the shooting.
The law passed by the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature runs counter to a nationwide trend in which some cities are trying to show greater transparency by releasing videos soon after a shooting.
Roberts told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the videos did not provide “a very clear picture”.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney says there is footage from at least one police body camera and one dashboard camera. It does not indicate whether Scott had a gun.
“The officer perceived his failure to comply with commands, failure to drop the weapon and facing the officers as an imminent threat”, Putney told Fox News.
Charlotte’s handling of the case stands in stark contrast to a similar police shooting last Friday involving an African-American man in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
After darkness fell, dozens or people carried signs and chanted to urge police to release dashboard and body camera video that could show more clearly what happened.
Representatives for the police department and the mayor’s office didn’t return emails from The Associated Press seeking comment on the family’s video.
Also late Friday, two Trump campaign officials said they were no longer planning a post-debate trip next week to the city.
“His hands are down by his side”.
“I assume on October 1, when the new law is enacted, someone will be requesting that tape, and it will most likely go to a third-party arbitrator, which would be the judge”, he told reporters.
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In Charlotte, the officer identified as having shot Scott, Brentley Vinson, is black. “You do see something in his hand, but it’s impossible to make out from the video what it is”.
