In video, man ignores police demands and is fatally shot

Fresno police Chief Jerry Dyer held a press conference following the video release on Wednesday to detail the circumstances around the police shooting on Dylan Noble on June 25.

Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer admitted the footage is “extremely disturbing”, but he released to clarify the circumstances surrounding the shooting that generated fierce debate about police brutality towards white community. According to Dyer, the man in the truck the officers pursued was believed to have a rifle.

Paboojian said Dylan Noble would be alive if Fresno police had treated it like a normal traffic stop.

The release of the footage comes just one week after two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, were fatally shot by police officers, and footage from both incidents circulated online. Officers then shot him four times, killing him. He acknowledged the video will “raise questions” about whether the last two shots fired were justified.

“Get on the ground now!” officers continually shout at Noble in the video released by police Wednesday. Fresno Police Department. Drop whatever you have in your hand.

Dyer said one of the officers told investigators he thought Noble was either taunting him or was practicing pulling out a gun, although it later emerged Noble wasn’t armed.

Noble then walks away from the officers before walking toward them.

Shots then quickly ring out, and Noble falls to the ground where he continues reaching under his shirt. Once the victim fell to the ground, he is seen moving his hand under his waistband, which led the officer firing a third round at him.

Dyer said Noble’s family was shown the video first, before members of the community had a chance to see it. “In some cases we are one spark away from a forest fire”.

Officials said they showed the video to Noble’s father and stepfather last week. “This is not a time to become violent”.

Police in California have released dramatic footage of officers shooting dead an unarmed teenager.

The video depicts that Noble didn’t stop immediately but eventually pulled over at the Chevron gas station at Shields and Armstrong, about a half of a mile later.

The shooting has sparked fierce protests, with critics of accusing “trigger-happy” police of taking the life of an unarmed young man. However, Noble was not carrying a weapon but had been holding a small plastic box in his right hand.

After he pulls in, the cops can be heard ordering him to put both hands out of the window.

At one point, Noble climbs out of the pickup and an officer yells that he didn’t tell Noble to get out of the vehicle. An officer yells for him to get down but instead he walks back toward the officers.

He continues to walk toward officers with his right hand concealed and his left hand in the air when the shots began coming.

His family thinks Fresno police didn’t need to use deadly force.

After almost three weeks since police shot and killed Dylan Noble the body camera footage of the deadly confrontation is now out to the public.

Noble’s mother and attorney said in a claim filed with the city that the officers used excessive force, and they called the death inexcusable.

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