On June 23rd police in Minneapolis were responding to a call that someone was firing a handgun in a residential neighborhood.

Upon arriving at the scene they saw a man sitting on a curb with a woman and they believed he had a gun.

They got out of the car, told him not to move and to drop the weapon but he got up and fled.

They chased after him saying, drop it or we'll shoot you but the man continued to run.

Audio was released where you can hear the man yelling, please don't shoot me and saying something to the effect that he didn't do anything wrong.

But eventually this man he was killed and neighbors, residents and family members were furious and called for these police officers to be charged.

But now body camera footage has been released and it is totally raw and you can see the man did actually have a gun and after he is killed police come up and kick the gun away.

Even after this activists and family members are still calling for the police to be charged.

So today the question I have is how does a narrative like this persist?

Is it faulty reporting that makes people believe these police were guilty before any evidence had come to light?

And how have activists responded in the wake of evidence proving the man did in fact have a gun and not only that but he was actually pulling it out of his waist when he was killed.

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First the most updated version of the story from CBS News. Minneapolis Police released body camera videos in fatal shooting of black man.

In a photo it says body camera footage released Sunday 29th by Minneapolis Police Department of the fatal shooting of Thurman 11's on June 23rd.

In this photo you can see one officer is pointing his weapon, another officer is further back you can see the officer here.

And in this analyzed video you can see a red circle around some kind of image. Now I can't tell what that is.

But apparently this is showing the gun in his hand. Authorities in Minneapolis released body camera videos on day from two police officers in the fatal shooting of a 31 year old black man.

The graphic footage shows Thurman blevins shot from behind after a frenetic foot chase and what appeared to be a gunness hand.

Officers Justin Schmidt and Ryan Kelly were responding to a 911 call the man firing a gun into the air on the city's north side June 23rd.

The video shows them pulling their cruiser up and a man blevins seated on a curb near a woman with a child in a stroller.

And the officers pull up one says he's got a gun.

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