Press TV: The incident took place on December 30 after police allegedly saw a gun in the glove compartment of a blue jaguar car.
Screaming repeatedly "Don't you fucking move!" and "Show me your hands!" at the African American man in the passenger seat, one police officer approached the car.
Then, the passenger, indentified as Jerame Reid, stepped out of the car, with his hands raised about shoulder level. But the officers shot him dead.
"The video speaks for itself that at no point was Jerame Reid a threat and he possessed no weapon on his person," Walter Hudson, chairman and founder of the civil rights group the National Awareness Alliance, said on Wednesday. "He complied with the officer and the officer shot him."
The incident took place after months of demonstrations over the killings of unarmed black men by police in New York and Ferguson.
The public protests gained momentum after US grand juries failed to indict police officers in the cases.
The majority of Americans say racial and ethnic discrimination is “a big problem” in the United States and many believe the country’s race relations have gotten worse under President Barack Obama, an Al Jazeera America/Monmouth University Poll has found.
There is also widespread racial disparity in the US criminal justice system. According to a study by the Sentencing Project research group, one in three black males are likely to be sentenced to prison sometime during their life. The figure for white men is one in 17.
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