A Police Body Cam Shows Shooting Of A Man
WHITFIELD: All right, new body cam video of a fatal police-involved shooting in North Carolina. And a caution for viewers, this video is disturbing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Put it down! Drop your gun! Drop your gun!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Put it down!</s>WHITFIELD: It appears in the video that the man was shot as he had his hands up. The officer yelled for him to drop his gun. However, it's not clear from the video whether the man was indeed holding a gun. CNN Polo Sandoval has been following this investigation. So Polo, what do we know about the 911 call that brought police there in the first place?</s>POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fred, that's a key question that remains unanswered. So that's clearly making it more difficult for investigators who are looking into this case and also the family of this man who lost a loved one, who are trying to get answers of their own because the reality is, according to the information that I have here from authorities, is that they still have been unable to say exactly why Reuben Galindo had initially called authorities to his home in the first place in Charlotte, North Carolina. As we play that, again, that fairly graphic and disturbing video for you, there is that warning but also the importance of seeing this so that you can at least see for yourself what took place, all of this happening on September 6th. Authorities say that Mr. Galindo made a phone call. I listened to those 911 dispatch records yesterday and I heard that exchange between both the dispatcher and this 29-year-old man. And in it you can hear -- Galindo say that he does have a weapon, that he does have a gun, but he does not have ammunition. You then hear the dispatcher repeatedly ask him to store that weapon in a safe place until police officers arrive there, which as we see here they do eventually make it there. Officers did make it there. They did see this gentleman in the front door -- in his front doorstep. And as you're able to see here, his hands are up, but it's very difficult to make out whether or not he did have a handgun or at least a weapon in his hand. Authorities say he did. And that's what prompted this response, this reaction from police to fire, shooting and killing this man. So now there is a full investigation under way. These officers, as you enter procedure, they are on administrative leave as they try to find out a very key component in this all, Fred, will be the toxicology reports. They do have reason to believe that Mr. Galindo had either been drinking or under the influence possibly of some kind of drug, but authorities saying they cannot confirm that until those toxicology reports come back, and then they may have some of these answers.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, Polo Sandoval, thanks so much. We'll be right back.