CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge has ordered the release of video showing a fatal shooting by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police in 2012.
The Charlotte Observer reported that the ruling is the second time a judge has ordered the release of video of a Charlotte police shooting under a new state law.
Mecklenburg County Superior Judge Lisa Bell ruled the police department must release to the newspaper the footage in the killing of 28-year-old Michael Laney, whose family and police give conflicting accounts of what happened.
A prosecutor ruled officers were justified in the shooting. Family members said the shooting was unnecessary and officers overreacted.
Earlier, another judge ordered the release of video in the June 2 police shooting of Rodney Rodriguez Smith.
- Posted January 26, 2017
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