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. 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. 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 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. Days after the shooting, Dyer said he felt it would be “premature” to release the video before the investigation was concluded. “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. 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,” said Darren Noble, Dylan’s father, after watching the footage. “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 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”. 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.  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. 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. An officer then shouted: “If you reach one more time, you will get shot again. “Dude, do not reach again, please,” the officer with the shotgun says. 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. 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. “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. 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. 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. The violence continued when a sniper killed five officers in Dallas last Thursday during a peaceful protest against police violence. Read more about recent police-involved shootings: 
 
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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.