SHARE COPY LINK The parents of Dylan Noble and their attorneys held a news conference in Fresno on July 7, 2016. They denied assertions that Noble was depressed or unhappy when he was shot dead by Fresno police after a traffic stop June 25. Kelsey Grey The Fresno Bee 
 
 The parents of Dylan Noble and their attorneys held a news conference in Fresno on July 7, 2016. They denied assertions that Noble was depressed or unhappy when he was shot dead by Fresno police after a traffic stop June 25. Kelsey Grey The Fresno Bee ||||| 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.” ||||| 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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– 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.