Protesters who have filled the streets to push for the release of video of a fatal police shooting could see their task get much harder if Charlotte authorities do not share the footage within a week.
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Police-involved shootings of black men have sparked protests in city after city.
A curfew beginning at midnight (0400 GMT) is in effect for a second night after protesters defied the order on Thursday.
The family of a black man killed in the USA state of North Carolina has released footage of the moments before he was shot dead by police.
The shooting has led to a fourth night of protests in the city of Charlotte.
A collection of notes are left by concerned community members at a small memorial at the scene of the death of Keith Scott September 23, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney says there is footage from at least one police body camera and one dashboard camera.
No one was arrested and no property was damaged.
They lit candles and offered prayers.
Scott was shot Tuesday, and while police have said he was armed, witnesses said he held only a book. The video recorded by Rakeyia Scott does not show whether the man had a gun. The family of Mr Scott has been shown that footage and demanded that police release it to the public. “He is acting calm”, the lawyer, Justin Bamberg, told CNN.
The video shows officers continuing to try to get Scott to come out of his truck and drop his weapon.
OFFICER: Don’t shoot. Drop the gun. Police Capt. Mike Campagna told reporters that officers would not seek to arrest curfew violators as long as they were peaceful.
Marchers briefly entered an interstate highway running through the city but quickly returned to the local streets.
Several people wrote the names of victims of police shootings across the country in chalk on a Charlotte street, as armed National Guard troops stood by.
Tulsa authorities on Thursday charged the police officer who killed Crutcher with first-degree manslaughter. It was released to NBC News after law enforcement once again refused to release their footage.
Still, Putney has previously said that the video, when considered with the rest of the evidence, supports the police account.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has yet to weigh in directly on the video release.
Team Clinton announced shortly after 9:30 p.m. Friday that after “discussion with community leaders”, the candidate would push back her journey from this coming Sunday to the following weekend so as not to cause any disruptions. She tells him again not to do it.
“At this point we do have very stressed resources for security”, she said.
“We can do this peacefully and I would prefer that”, he said.
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The New York Times posted the video, recorded by the wife of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, on Friday.
