Body-camera video of the incident could settle the dispute over whether Scott was armed, but police and city officials have declined to make the video public. Although the increase in the use of body cameras has led to more shootings being captured on film, most of those videos are not immediately released to the public. Those numbers represent an increase from 2015, when out of 990 fatal police shootings, The Post was able to identify 71 that were captured by body camera, 14 caught on dash camera and 70 with some other type of video. However, more fatal police shootings being caught on camera does not mean that the public is seeing more of those videos than last year. Some videos, especially those filmed by bystanders, such as those of the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile earlier this summer, are released to the public quickly.

Source: Washington Post September 22, 2016 18:56 UTC