Charlotte police released body and dashboard camera footage of the shooting of a black man Saturday after nearly a week of sometimes riotous demonstrations and calls by the public see the video.

The dramatic video of the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott shed little light on what led to the confrontation with cops.

Charlotte Police Chief Kerr Putney said that he decided to release the footage after receiving assurances from the State Bureau of Investigation that it would not impact their independent probe of the shooting.

 The dash-cam footage was released Saturday by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department)

“The footage itself will not create in anyone’s mind absolute certainty as to what this case represents and what the outcome should be,” Putney said.

“The footage only supports all of the other information” such as physical evidence and statements from witnesses and officers, he added.

Police maintained that Scott was “an imminent deadly threat” to officers, although the video released never shows him raising his arms in a threatening way toward the cops.

On the dashcam video, Scott exits his SUV and takes a few steps backwards. He appears to be holding something in his left hand.

Evidence photo released on Saturday by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department) Evidence photo released on Saturday by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department appears to show a blunt. (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department) Evidence photo released on Saturday by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department shows a holster. (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Dep)   1 | 3  Evidence photo released on Saturday by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department) 

Seconds later, four shots ring out and the 43-year-old crumples to the ground.

Police released three photographs along with the video. One of a handgun, one of what appears to be a blunt and an ankle holster.

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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory announced that he supported Putney’s decision to release the tapes, citing similar reasons.

"I have been assured by the State Bureau of Investigation that the release will have no material impact on the independent investigation since most of the known witnesses have been interviewed," he said in a release.

 Kerr Putney, chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, right, and Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts resisted releasing the videos for four days following Tuesday's shooting. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

The videos, filmed by the dashcam and the body cam belonging to officers at the scene of the shooting, show the moments that led to the Scott’s death at the hands of Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer Brentley Vinson. Putney said he would only release footage that is "relevant" to the case.

The footage was made public following four nights of protests in Charlotte as demonstrators took to the streets and demanded the recordings be released. On Saturday, demonstrators took their protest to the police department chanting "No tapes, no peace." National figures on both ends of the political spectrum joined the chorus of those demanding for the footage to be released, including Hillary Clinton and Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani.

 Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot by Charlotte, N.C. police on Tuesday. (Facebook)

Scott's family viewed the police videos in private on Thursday but said the tapes left them with more "questions than answers," regarding whether the shooting was justified. Putney contended during Saturday's news conference that there is "no single piece of evidence that proves the complexities" of the case.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg officers encountered Scott on Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Village at College Downs apartment complex—they had been on their way to serve a warrant to someone else who lived nearby.

 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Dept. Police Officer Brentley Vinson, who shot Keith Lamont Scott, is on administrative leave pending an investigation. (Liberty University Footnall Media Guide)

Scott’s family and witnesses said that the 43-year-old father was reading a book in his car while waiting for his son to get off the school bus. But police have said that Scott was brandishing a weapon and ignored multiple commands to drop the firearm before he was shot.

Putney revealed on Saturday that officers saw Scott with marijuana in his car and that later they noticed he was armed.

 Scott's wife, Rakeyia Scott, released a cellphone video of the fatal shooting in which she pleads with officers to 'not shoot.' (Rakeyia Scott/AP)

"They look in the car and they see the marijuana" and then later the officers "perceived a lethal threat by a handgun," Putney said. North Carolina is an open carry state, meaning residents can be openly armed in public without a permit or license.

Heartwrenching cellphone video shot by his wife did not conclusively prove whether Scott was armed or aiming a weapon at officers. The shooting itself was obscured in her two-minute 44-second video.

 Protesters raises their fists as they march in the streets of Charlotte, N.C. on Friday. (Chuck Burton/AP)

On Friday, Putney said he would wait until he had “a compelling reason” to release the videos and felt the videos would further inflame the unrest in North Carolina's largest city.

Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts initially sided with Putney but reversed her stance on Friday, saying she believed the videos should be released.

The State Bureau of Investigation has taken over the probe into whether Vinson, who is also black, was justified in killing Scott.

The Department of Justice did not launch their own investigation into the shooting but sent four peacemaking officers to Charlotte to assist local authorities with the protests.

The unreleased footage could be subject to a new North Carolina that takes effect on Oct. 1, which will require the public to appeal to a judge to gain access to police video.

With News Wire Services

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