Police in Fresno, Calif., released body camera videos from two police officers showing the officers fatally shooting Dylan Noble, an unarmed white teenager (Editor's note: This video contains graphic content). (Fresno Police Department) 
 
 Police in Fresno, Calif., on Wednesday released body-camera footage showing officers fatally shooting an unarmed 19-year-old, Dylan Noble. 
 
 The footage from June 25 shows officers pulling over Noble at a gas station in the central California city after police received a report of a man carrying a rifle. 
 
 Noble was unarmed, but as he exited from his pickup truck, he repeatedly ignored officers’ commands. 
 
 The video shows him appear to hide his hands behind his back and walk toward officers, disobeying commands to show his hands, get on the ground and stop advancing. 
 
 “I f—ing hate my life,” Noble shouts a split-second before an officer shoots him twice. 
 
 The video then shows Noble continue to reach toward his waist before he is shot twice more, including one shotgun blast from a second officer. 
 
 The video does not appear to show Noble pulling his hand out “very quickly” before the shooting, however, as Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters last month. 
 
 The release of the footage comes at a tense time for law enforcement in the United States. The fatal police shootings of two black men — Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., — last week prompted nationwide protests over fatal use of force by police. During a July 7 protest march in Dallas, a lone gunman angry over the two shootings opened fire on police, killing five officers and wounding nine others. 
 
 Dyer said Wednesday that he had planned to release the footage Friday but delayed because of the Dallas shooting. 
 
 The fatal shooting of Noble, who was white, did not initially generate national outrage. That, in turn, prompted its own anger and demonstrations. 
 
 A vigil for Noble the day after his death featured Confederate flags and a “White Lives Matter” sign. 
 
 Gail Rowell, grandmother of Dylan Noble's girlfriend, says Noble was at her house just hours before his murder. pic.twitter.com/EZ7QuklxEE — Cresencio Rodriguez (@cres_guez) June 27, 2016 
 
 “I guarantee if an African American guy got shot, it would’ve blown up,” Noble’s friend, David Merkord, told the Guardian. “There definitely would’ve been a bigger crowd.” 
 
 Some Internet commenters claimed the relative lack of media attention was because of Noble’s race. 
 
 “Fresno cops shoot, kill 19-year-old,” wrote one Twitter user. “You didn’t hear about it, well because he was white.” 
 
 The release of the body-camera footage, however, is now steering that anger away from race and toward the broader issue of police officers’ use of deadly force. 
 
 [Aren’t more white people than black people killed by police? Yes, but no.] 
 
 After Noble’s father, Darren Noble, saw the footage during a private July 8 screening, he demanded that the two officers face murder charges. 
 
 “They just wanted to shoot him,” Darren Noble told the Guardian. “They’re just trigger-happy.” 
 
 On Monday, Noble’s mother filed a legal claim against the city saying she had suffered “significant emotional and mental distress as a result of the senseless and brutal shooting death of her son,” the Fresno Bee reported. 
 
 “The officers never had an objectively reasonable basis to shoot Dylan Noble,” the complaint says. “At no time did they use or attempt to use their K-9. At no time did they use or attempt to use a TASER.” 
 
 Before last month’s shooting, the Fresno Police Department was, in some ways, at the forefront of the effort to reform policing in the United States. The department used powerful — and, to some critics, controversial — software to scour data on suspects and predict a person’s threat level. City officials, meanwhile, credited a community-policing approach, emphasizing partnerships and problem-solving instead of mass arrests, for a drop in gang violence and an absence of angry protests. 
 
 But now, something has shifted. 
 
 The incident began about 3:20 p.m. June 25, when Fresno police responded to a call from a woman who reported a man in a camouflage jacket walking around near the city’s airport while carrying a rifle. 
 
 Two officers in the area spotted Noble “peeling out” in his black pickup truck and pulled him over at a Chevron gas station. 
 
 A body camera on the officer who drove the police vehicle captures him and his partner drawing their guns as they step from their squad car. 
 
 “Turn off the truck,” the officer says. “Get your hands out the window. Both hands out the window.” 
 
 Noble’s truck door appears to swing open. 
 
 “No, I didn’t tell you to get out,” the officer behind the camera continues. “Hey, let me see both your hands. Let me see both your hands.” 
 
 Noble appears to hold his left hand up but not his right. 
 
 “Let me see your hands. Get both your hands out. Both your hands,” the officer says, calling for backup. “Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands.” 
 
 “Both hands. Both hands,” says the partner as a third officer arrives and racks his shotgun. (His body-camera footage was also released Wednesday.) 
 
 “Get your hands out where we can see them,” shouts the first officer’s partner. 
 
 “Both your hands,” the first officer says. 
 
 “Other hand. Right hand up. Right hand up,” his partner says. 
 
 “I think we have a dog with us,” the officer with the shotgun says. 
 
 “Subject keeps reaching for his waistband,” the first officer says into his radio. 
 
 “He’s getting out of the car,” the officer with the shotgun shouts. 
 
 Multiple officers frantically shout for Noble to get on the ground. 
 
 “We don’t have a dog?” the officer with the shotgun asks. 
 
 “Let me see your hands,” the first officer tells Noble as he holds his right hand behind his back and walks toward them. “Stop, stop reaching. Stop.” 
 
 “Get down on the ground. Get down on the ground now. Get your f—ing ass on the ground,” the officer with the shotgun says. “Fresno Police Department. Drop whatever you have in your hand.” 
 
 “Drop,” the first officer says. 
 
 “If you come forward, you’re going to get shot, man,” the officer with the shotgun says. 
 
 “Stop,” the first officer says. 
 
 “Get on the ground now,” the officer with the shotgun says. 
 
 “I f—ing hate my life,” Noble shouts. 
 
 Two shots, apparently fired by the first officer, ring out and Noble falls to the pavement on his stomach. An object — later determined to be a 4-by-4-inch piece of clear plastic, according to the Bee — falls to the ground. 
 
 “Shots fired, subject down,” the officer with the shotgun says into his radio. 
 
 
 
 In a still from the Fresno Police officer’s body camera footage, Dylan Noble can be seen holding his left hand in the air and his right behind his back in the moments before his fatal June 25 shooting. (Fresno Police Department via AP) 
 
 “Get your hands up” the first officer says. 
 
 Noble then rolls onto his back. 
 
 “Let me see your hands,” the officer with the shotgun says. 
 
 Noble then appears to reach with his right hand toward his waistband. 
 
 “Keep your hands up,” the officer with the shotgun shouts. “I cannot see his hands.” 
 
 A third shot rings out, apparently fired by the first officer. 
 
 “Dude, keep your hands out,” the officer with the shotgun says. 
 
 “Don’t reach with your hands,” the first officer says. 
 
 “Quit reaching for what you’ve got,” the officer with the shotgun says. “Keep your hands out. Dude, if you reach one more time, you will get shot again. Stop.” 
 
 Noble’s right hand moves again toward his waistband. 
 
 “Dude,” the officer with the shotgun says, firing once at Noble. 
 
 “Dude, do not reach again, please,” the officer with the shotgun says. 
 
 Noble was taken to a local hospital but died during surgery, according to the Los Angeles Times. 
 
 A memorial has grown at Chevron where a man was shot & killed by police. Friends identified him as Dylan Noble pic.twitter.com/MBV2WnPUmv — Lucero Benitez (@LuceroGBenitez) June 27, 2016 
 
 Two days later, Dyer, the police chief, told reporters that the shooting was a “tragedy” but that body-camera footage of the incident showed why officers “felt, at least in their minds,” the need to open fire. He said the footage showed Noble pulling his hand out “very quickly” before he was shot, adding that, like Noble’s parents, he was baffled by the incident. 
 
 “We’re talking about a 19-year-old young man who doesn’t have any criminal history, and we’re trying to figure out why this occurred,” he said, according to the Bee. 
 
 On Wednesday, at a news conference in which he released the footage, Dyer said an investigation would try to determine whether all four shots were justified and if deadly force could have been avoided. 
 
 “Were the last two rounds fired by the officers necessary? Based on a reasonable fear, did the officers have to use deadly force? I do not have the answer to that today,” Dyer said, according to the Guardian. “That video was extremely disturbing to watch.” 
 
 Dyer added that he hoped the video, which Noble’s family had called on him to release, would not unleash more violence. 
 
 “Tensions are high,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “In some cases, we are one spark away from a forest fire. And I pray this video doesn’t serve as that spark.” 
 
 The object in Noble’s hand is being investigated by the Justice Department, the Bee reported. According to the Times, it contained malleable clay. 
 
 Unlike the shootings of Sterling and Castile, which became national headlines within hours and were loudly denounced by the Black Lives Matter movement, it was almost two weeks before Noble’s killing began to gain nationwide attention. (A column in New York Daily News by Shaun King three days after the shooting was a rare exception.) 
 
 [Huckabee’s claim that more white people were shot by police in 2015 than minorities] 
 
 As in the case of Sterling and Castile, it was bystander video of the shooting that sparked the media’s attention. 
 
 On July 6, as the nation watched Castile bleed to death on Facebook Live, video emerged of Noble’s shooting 11 days after it had occurred. 
 
 The video, shot from a distance on a bystander’s cellphone, shows the third and fourth shots as Noble lay on the ground. 
 
 New video shows portion of deadly Fresno police shooting of #DylanNoble https://t.co/k7M3Sb9Ej9https://t.co/UtBzlgZr05 — ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 7, 2016 
 
 “It shows how my son was murdered,” Darren Noble told the Guardian on July 7. “You can see he was still alive. He was trying to comply and they’re still yelling at him. You can see his hands in the video. They shot him more times just to kill him.” 
 
 That night, however, Micah Xavier Johnson opened fire on police in Dallas, shifting the public conversation — at least temporarily — toward police safety. 
 
 Whether the release Wednesday of the Fresno police footage pushes the conversation back toward police-involved shootings remains to be seen. 
 
 Also unclear is whether Noble will be remembered for the “White Lives Matter” sign and Confederate flags at his vigil or whether he instead will become a symbol of how police shootings affect all communities. 
 
 https://twitter.com/disturbedseoul/status/751619354156945408 
 
 When one Black Lives Matter supporter tweeted Friday that the movement “stands with Dylan Noble,” she was attacked from all sides. 
 
 “It was suicide by cop,” wrote one commenter who criticized the Black Lives Matter movement. 
 
 “Why do you believe the movement stands with him?” asked a Black Lives Matter sympathizer. “It was believed he was flying his confederate flag when shot.” 
 
 His friends and family say Noble should be remembered simply as a fun-loving country boy who deserved more than to die in a gas station parking lot. 
 
 “They executed him,” Darren Noble told YourCentralValley.com on Wednesday. “There was no reason for them to even have guns drawn down on him for a traffic stop.” 
 
 Warren Paboojian, the father’s attorney, admitted that Noble did not follow officers’ commands but said police could have used nonlethal means of subduing him, including a K-9 reportedly at the scene. 
 
 “They were telling a young boy, who may have been under the influence of some alcohol, to do a bunch of commands for a routine traffic stop,” he said. 
 
 Paboojian added that the family had at least one thing in common with the officers who killed Noble. 
 
 “We don’t want any more violence or any threats to police officers or anyone else,” he said. 
 
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 The aftermath of this Minn. police shooting was live streamed on Facebook ||||| Police in California have released graphic body-camera footage of officers repeatedly shooting an unarmed teenager, including multiple shots that were fired as the adolescent was gravely wounded, lying on his back and barely moving. 
 
 The release on Wednesday of video of the killing of Dylan Noble, a 19-year-old shot at a gas station in Fresno on 25 June, occurred just hours after the police department told the Guardian it would not release the footage. 
 
 Officers privately showed the video to Noble’s family last Friday but had initially refused to release the video to the public until the investigation was complete. 
 
 “They just wanted to shoot him,” said Darren Noble, Dylan’s father, after watching the footage. “They’re just trigger-happy.” 
 
 After watching the footage, Noble’s family launched legal action against the city alleging that the shooting was “an inexcusable use of excessive force”. 
 
 According to the Fresno police department’s account of the shooting, officers pulled Noble over while investigating reports of a man carrying a rifle at around 3.20pm. 
 
 Police claim that the officers believed Noble had a gun, though they later learned he had no weapons on him or in his pickup truck. 
 
 Blurry video from a witness that emerged last week captured the final bullets that killed Noble, but the body-camera footage provides a much fuller picture of the shooting. 
 
 The body-camera footage released Wednesday shows that officers approached Noble with their guns pointed at him and repeatedly shouted: “Let me see your hands” and “Both hands.” 
 
 When Noble eventually exited and walked away from his truck, he appeared to have his left arm outstretched and, for a few seconds, his right arm behind his back. He then briefly walked toward the police. 
 
 Officers continued shouting at him to show his hands, with one screaming: “Get your fucking ass on the ground.” 
 
 One officer then fired two shots at Noble, who collapsed onto the ground and rolled onto his back. Approximately 12 seconds later, while Noble was laying on the ground, the same officer fired a third shot. 
 
 An officer then shouted: “If you reach one more time, you will get shot again. Stop.” 
 
 Roughly 15 seconds after the third shot, with Noble barely moving, another officer shot a fourth. 
 
 “Do not reach again, please,” an officer said. 
 
 Narrating the footage, police chief Jerry Dyer repeatedly pointed out moments when, he said, it appeared that Noble had something in his hand. He said the investigation would seek to determine whether each bullet was justified and if there were alternative actions the police could have taken. 
 
 Dylan Noble. Photograph: Courtesy of family 
 
 “Were the last two rounds fired by the officers necessary? Based on a reasonable fear, did the officers have to use deadly force? I do not have the answer to that today,” he said, adding: “That video was extremely disturbing to watch.” 
 
 Dyer also referenced the unrest throughout the country, saying: “In many respects, we are a spark away from a forest fire in our communities in America.” 
 
 Questions over Noble’s death come at a time when communities across the country are grappling with anxieties about police brutality following multiple high-profile deaths by officers. 
 
 
 
 In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police tackled and fatally shot Alton Sterling last week outside of a convenience store while he was selling CDs. 
 
 One day later, during a traffic stop in Minnesota, an officer killed Philando Castile, who told the officer that he had a gun and a permit to carry it, according to his girlfriend, who was sat in the passenger seat. 
 
 The Baton Rouge shooting and the aftermath of the Minnesota shooting were caught on camera in disturbing footage that quickly went viral. 
 
 The violence continued when a sniper killed five officers in Dallas last Thursday during a peaceful protest against police violence. According to police, the gunman, Micah Johnson, was a political extremist motivated by grievances over police shootings promoted by the the Black Lives Matters movement. 
 
 Dyer said he would not release the name of the officers out of fear for their safety. “I don’t want anything to happen in our city like it happened in Dallas.” 
 
 The death of Noble, who is white, received national attention when some protesters in the Central Valley city held up a “White Lives Matter” sign at a vigil. 
 
 
 
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 The appropriation of the political caused controversy online, however friends of Noble said their protests had been misunderstood and they were only seeking justice for their friend. 
 
 The Noble family’s claim for unspecified damages, filed on Monday on behalf of his mother Veronica Nelson, argues that officers “never had an objectively reasonable basis to shoot” the 19-year-old. 
 
 The department has also failed to remedy “systemic violations” and “civil rights abuses” within the police agency, the claim continues, and has shown “deliberate indifference to the use of excessive and often deadly force in encounters with civilians when it is a grossly disproportionate response”. 
 
 Days after the shooting, Dyer said he felt it would be “premature” to release the video before the investigation was concluded. 
 
 The release of the footage appeared to be a last-minute decision. 
 
 On Wednesday afternoon, a police spokesman told the Guardian the department’s position hadn’t changed and the video would not be released. 
 
 About half an hour later, the spokesman said the chief had changed his mind and decided to let the media watch the footage. 
 
 At the news conference, Dyer said he did not want to release the footage the day after the shootings in Dallas. “Although tensions remain high at this point, not only here in Fresno but across this nation, I believe the timing is right to release this video.” 
 
 Noble’s father said that while the public would likely be angered by the footage, he hoped there would not be any violent protest. “I don’t want no riot. I don’t want anybody else hurt.” 
 
 He added: “Nothing they do can bring my kid back ... but I want those cops to pay. I won’t be satisfied until they go up on murder charges. They should be held [responsible] like anybody else who killed an innocent kid.” ||||| (CNN) A second video showing the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a black man shot several times while being held on the ground by police outside a Louisiana convenience store, was posted online Wednesday as federal authorities took charge of the investigation and local officials asked residents to keep their protests peaceful. 
 
 The video, obtained by CNN, shows another angle and was recorded closer to the shooting by one of two white Baton Rouge police officers who were answering a 911 report of a man with a gun. It is the second of two bystander videos that show the encounter. One posted online Tuesday night quickly sparked local protests and drew national attention. 
 
 In the new 38-second recording, Sterling is already on the ground, on his back. One officer is kneeling to Sterling's left. The other officer appears to be straddling Sterling's legs. Sterling can be seen from the chest up and his lower legs are also visible. His left arms and hands are not visible; his right arm is by his side. 
 
 After gunshots are heard, the camera pans to the right then back to Sterling, who has a large blood stain on his chest. The officer who was on his legs now lies on the pavement above Sterling's head, his gun pointed. 
 
 The officer radios for an ambulance. As Sterling moves his left arm toward his face and then his chest, the other officer appears to remove something from one of Sterling's right pockets. Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. said Sterling was armed at the time he was killed and one witness said the officer removed a gun from Sterling's pocket. 
 
 Sterling, a 37-year-old man who sold CDs and DVDs outside the store, died of his wounds. The officers involved in Tuesday's shooting -- Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II -- have been placed on administrative leave. A source close to the investigation told CNN the officers were interviewed Tuesday night. 
 
 Officials pledge transparency 
 
 The second video emerged on a day in which Baton Rouge and Louisiana officials said the investigation into Sterling's shooting would be led by federal authorities. 
 
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 The revelation also came as a vigil for Sterling was held outside the convenience store and city officials met with residents of Baton Rouge. 
 
 The U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is leading an investigation into what happened. The U.S. attorney's office in Baton Rouge, the FBI and state police also will be involved in the investigation, Gov. John Bel Edwards said. 
 
 Tensions are running high in the city of 238,000 people as officials vowed to be transparent about how they handle the controversial case that has sparked vigils in cities around the country. 
 
 Searching for answers 
 
 Edmond Jordan, an attorney representing Sterling's family, said the first video of the shooting raises troubling questions. 
 
 "I think that the city is going to have to give us some good answers," Jordan, who is a Louisiana state legislator, told CNN. "And I don't know if they'll be able to." 
 
 Quinyetta McMillon, the mother of one of Sterling's children, teared up as she discussed the first shooting video. Her 15-year-old son stood beside her, sobbing. 
 
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 "The individuals involved in his murder took away a man with children who depended upon their daddy on a daily basis. ... As this video has been shared across the world, you will see with your own eyes how he was handled unjustly and killed without regard for the lives that he helped raise," she said. 
 
 McMillon vowed to join fellow citizens of Baton Rouge in making sure those responsible are held accountable. 
 
 "I, for one, will not rest," she said, "and will not allow y'all to sweep him in the dirt." 
 
 A police incident report says Sterling was shot by one of the officers, but doesn't specify which. 
 
 Edwards called for calm and unity, saying he has "very serious concerns" after watching the video. 
 
 "The video is disturbing to say the least," he said. 
 
 The first video 
 
 At 48 seconds, the first video is longer and begins with the camera facing a car dashboard as the three men stand near the vehicle. A single pop is heard. Then someone yells, "Get on the ground." 
 
 Another pop follows. 
 
 The camera then pans up to two officers confronting a man in a red shirt. The man is Sterling, according to his family's attorney. 
 
 Still frames from the video that appears to show Alton Sterling being shot to death. 
 
 An officer pulls him over the hood of a silver car and pins him to the ground. Once he's down, the officer begins to assist a second officer in restraining Sterling. 
 
 Seconds later, someone shouts, "He's got a gun." 
 
 An officer can be seen drawing something from his waist and pointing it at the man on the ground. 
 
 More yelling follows, though it's hard to make out what's being said. Then there are two bangs. 
 
 The witnesses inside the car shout and swear. Three more bangs go off. A woman in the car starts crying. 
 
 More witnesses? 
 
 Investigators said they'll review multiple videos of the shooting, and they're canvassing for witnesses. 
 
 "If you have any information, we urge you to come forward," the police chief said Wednesday. 
 
 The owner of the convenience store where Sterling was killed said he's sure the shooting was caught on his store's surveillance cameras, though he hasn't seen it. Police took the video later Tuesday, he told CNN. 
 
 There also is police body camera footage of the shooting of Sterling -- even though the cameras were dislodged -- Baton Rouge police Lt. Johnny Dunham told reporters. The cameras continued to record, he added. 
 
 "That footage may not be as good as we hoped for," Dunham said. 
 
 Authorities haven't said what those police videos or other surveillance footage of the scene show. 
 
 A source involved in the investigation told CNN that none of it is nearly as clear as two bystander videos. The source also told CNN the witness who called 911 said Sterling was "brandishing a gun," not pointing it at someone. 
 
 The 'CD man' 
 
 Sterling was known as the "CD man," a laid-back guy who would sell tunes and DVDs outside the convenience store where he was shot, according to local media. 
 
 "Alton was a respected man. He was beloved in the community. He did not deserve the treatment and this excessive force that was exerted on him by the police department," Jordan, his attorney, told CNN. 
 
 Now Sterling's family is "grieving and mourning for an unnecessary loss of life," the attorney said. 
 
 "Alton was out there selling CDs, trying to make a living. He was doing it with the permission of the store owner, so he wasn't trespassing or anything like that. He wasn't involved in any criminal conduct," Jordan said. 
 
 Abdullah Muflahi, the owner of the Triple S Food Mart, said he saw the officers slam Sterling on a car. 
 
 "They told him not to move," he said. "He was asking them what he did wrong." 
 
 He said the officers then used a Taser on Sterling at least once before shooting. 
 
 Both got on top of him, and one ordered him not to move, Muflahi said. 
 
 The one closest to Sterling's legs yelled "gun," he said, and the shots followed. 
 
 Just five minutes before, he walked into the store getting something to drink, joking around, (and we were) calling each other names. Abdullah Muflahi, owner of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge 
 
 After the shooting, Muflahi said an officer reached into Sterling's pocket and pulled out a gun. 
 
 Muflahi said he'd known Sterling for six years and never saw a confrontation between Sterling and anyone. Sterling never got into fights, he said. And the store owner said he wasn't aware of any incident Tuesday that would have spurred a 911 call. 
 
 "Just five minutes before," Muflahi said, "he walked into the store getting something to drink, joking around, (and we were) calling each other names." 
 
 Later, Muflahi said he didn't hear Sterling say anything after the initial confrontation. 
 
 "(Sterling) was really confused," Muflahi said. "He didn't know what was going on or why they were there." 
 
 He said Sterling never showed a weapon. 
 
 "The gun was never anywhere in his hand, nor his hand wasn't near, inside his pocket," he said. 
 
 Sterling has had encounters with law enforcement before. 
 
 In 2009, he was charged with carrying a weapon (a firearm) while in possession of a controlled substance (marijuana). He pleaded guilty two years later and was sentenced to five years in prison, with credit for time served and a recommendation of work release and drug treatment. Sterling had pleaded guilty to other charges in the past. 
 
 There's no evidence that officers who responded to the convenience store early Tuesday were aware of his criminal history. 
 
 Cause of death: 'Multiple gunshot wounds' 
 
 A preliminary autopsy found Sterling's cause of death was from "multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and back," East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner William "Beau" Clark said. 
 
 He declined to provide additional details about how many gunshot wounds Sterling sustained. 
 
 A full autopsy will be completed over the next 60 to 90 days, Clark said, pending toxicology results. 
 
 Salamoni and Lake, the officers involved, were placed on administrative leave Tuesday morning, police said. 
 
 Salamoni is a four-year veteran of the department. Lake has been with the force three years. 
 
 'He was handled unjustly' 
 
 At a news conference, the president of the NAACP branch in Baton Rouge called for the police chief and mayor to resign in the wake of the shooting. 
 
 "We're actually here today to speak to the culture of the Baton Rouge Police Department. This incident is only one incident in many," Michael McClanahan told reporters. "What we're going to do is root out the 1% of bad police officers that go around being the judge, the jury and executioner of innocent people, period, but more specifically, innocent black lives." 
 
 The officers involved should be held accountable, McClanahan said. 
 
 "I'm calling on anybody in this city with any backbone to go and arrest those two officers," he said. "If the system will work for anybody, let it work for them, too." 
 
 "I don't plan on resigning," police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. said. "We have done a lot of good in this community. We have worked very hard in this community. Do we have an issue right now? Yes. But we are working right now to bring the truth out." 
 
 'We ain't running from this' 
 
 People gathered Wednesday night at the site of the shooting to hold a vigil for Sterling. 
 
 Aaron Banks, lifelong Baton Rouge resident, was there. 
 
 "I'm feeling all sorts of emotions from this crime," he said. 
 
 Earlier, protesters took to the streets near where Sterling was killed after news of his death spread. 
 
 Members of Sterling's family were among them, Jordan said. 
 
 "Pretty much everybody who knows him knows he's a sweet person," his sister, Mignon Chambers, told CNN affiliate WVLA-TV 
 
 "It wasn't right, and something needs to be done." 
 
 The protests were largely peaceful, according to local media. 
 
 Some streets were shut down, a few individuals spoke and those on the scene mostly played music and chanted. 
 
 "We ain't running from this," one man could be heard telling the crowd. "We gonna pray first, but we gonna stand tonight. We gonna stand tomorrow. And we gonna stand as a community." ||||| A man who believed his home was being burglarized early Thursday shot through his front door, hitting a man in the chest, Las Vegas police said. 
 
 The victim, a man in his 20s, and the second person were at the door after confusing the home with another in the neighborhood, police said. 
 
 They had been celebrating a birthday with another person at a nearby house. They left for a short time and thought they were returning to the same house, but instead confused the homes and knocked on the door at 9218 Wittig Ave., near Fort Apache and Elkhorn roads, just before 2 a.m., police said. 
 
 They did not understand why they weren’t being let back in and banged on the door while arguing with the homeowner, who had come to the door, police said. The homeowner shot one time through the closed door, hitting one of them in the chest. 
 
 The wounded man was taken to University Medical Center. His condition was not released. 
 
 Police did not release the names of anyone involved. 
 
 The home is owned by Victor Thompson, a captain with the Las Vegas Fire Department, according to property records and a fire department spokesman. 
 
 Nobody answered the door Thursday morning, and a phone call to Thompson went unanswered. 
 
 A bullet hole was visible just inches from the front door’s peephole, and two Las Vegas fire trucks parked outside while crews went inside for a short time. 
 
 Residents who live nearby described the neighborhood as quiet, yet easy to get lost in. 
 
 Keith Patton, who lives the street behind where the shooting happened, said he and his mother have confused the houses by driving or walking up to the wrong driveway several times. 
 
 The shooting remained under investigation. 
 
 A homeowner’s decision to shoot through the door because he believed someone was breaking into his home could be within Nevada’s “stand your ground” law, two Las Vegas defense lawyers said. 
 
 Whether the shooter will be charged is unclear. In the past, investigators have asked the Clark County district attorney’s office to review such cases and determine if a crime was committed. 
 
 In 2012 prosecutors declined to charge a man who fatally shot a would-be burglar through a backyard window. 
 
 Demarcus Carter, a 19-year-old with a history of committing residential burglaries, was unarmed when he was killed in March 2012, prosecutors said. There was evidence Carter was trying to enter the Summerlin home when he was shot. 
 
 A difference between Carter’s death and Thursday’s incident is that police said the men knocking on the door were not trying to break-in but trying to return to a birthday gathering. 
 
 However, Nevada’s “stand your ground” law allows a reasonable person to protect himself in such a situation, defense lawyer Chris Rasmussen said. 
 
 “You can use deadly force if you have a reasonable belief that your life is being threatened. If someone’s breaking through your front door, you don’t have to wait for them to get through the front door” to shoot, Rasmussen said. 
 
 Nevada’s “stand your ground” law has been a staple in state court rulings since the 1800s, when gun violence often erupted in mining towns. However, it wasn’t codified by the Legislature until 2012. 
 
 The key language in the law is whether a shooter had a reasonable fear. 
 
 “It all comes down to what a jury is going to think is reasonable,” Rasmussen said. “That it happened at 2 a.m. and not 2 p.m. is significant.” 
 
 Defense lawyer Dewayne Nobles concurred. 
 
 “Did he feel he was in imminent danger for himself or his family?” Nobles asked. 
 
 Nobles pointed out that investigators should look at the circumstances of the incident, including whether the men outside were yelling or pounding on the door. 
 
 “It might be different if they were knocking on the front door saying they forgot their keys,” Nobles said. 
 
 In a 2008 case, Emmanuel Dozier awakened to the sound of men trying to break into his Henderson home. Believing they were attempting a home invasion robbery, Dozier shot through his front door and wounded three men. At the time, his girlfriend, her 13-year-old daughter and the couple’s 3-month-old son were in the home. 
 
 It turned out the men were Las Vegas police SWAT officers serving a drug-related search warrant. The SWAT officers said they announced themselves as police before using a battering ram and a shotgun to try and break down the door. 
 
 Dozier, when he realized he was shooting police, quickly surrendered. 
 
 He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to between four and 10 years in prison. 
 
 Rasmussen said Dozier’s situation was different than what happened Thursday. It is why police must announce who they are before entering a residence. 
 
 Contact reporter Francis McCabe at fmccabe@reviewjournal.com or 702-224-5512. Find him on Twitter: @fjmccabe 
 
 Review-Journal reporter Colton Lochhead contributed to this report. 
 
 Contact Ricardo Torres at rtorres@reviewjournal.com and 702-383-0381. Find him on Twitter: @rickytwrites. Contact Francis McCabe at fmccabe@reviewjournal.com or 702-224-5512.
– Another fatal police shooting from last month is getting attention, and the police department involved released body camera video footage from the incident Wednesday, the Fresno Bee reports. Dylan Noble, 19, was killed in Fresno, Calif., on June 25 after police responded to a 911 call about a man walking around with a rifle. While in the area, officers pulled over Noble's pickup; they say Noble was "peeling out" and continued to drive after they signaled him to stop. After pulling into a gas station, Noble got out of his truck and walked toward the officers. The video shows him repeatedly ignoring officers' commands to stop and to show both his hands. Officers believed Noble, who repeatedly reached toward his waistband, was armed; they ultimately shot him twice after he yelled "I [expletive] hate my life" and continued toward them. After "pleading" with him to show both hands, officers shot him two more times while he was already on the ground. It was ultimately determined that what Noble had in his hand was a 4-inch-by-4-inch piece of clear plastic with something resembling gray clay inside; the Department of Justice is analyzing it. Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says the department is investigating and that he will focus on whether the third and fourth shots were "absolutely necessary." As the Washington Post reports, soon after Noble's death, people pointed out on social media that the shooting wasn't getting as much attention as the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, presumably because Noble was white. (At a vigil the day after his death, there were Confederate flags and a "White Lives Matter" sign present.) Now Noble's father tells the Guardian the new video shows police were "trigger-happy," and his mother has started the process of suing the city, the Bee reports. In addition to the internal investigation and the DOJ, the county DA's office and the FBI are also investigating.