Pressure is mounting on authorities to publicly release police body camera video of a shooting at a school in the Tennessee city of Knoxville that left a student dead and an officer wounded.
Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon on Monday repeated her call from last week for the local district attorney to authorize the release of video footage of the April 12 shooting at Austin-East Magnet High School in the East Tennessee city.
The mayor said the video was essential to restoring trust in police. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation initially said the student fired at police before he was killed, then later said the bullet that wounded an officer did not come from the student’s gun.
District attorney Charme Allen has declined to release the video, saying it could damage the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s probe into the shooting.
Activists also have pushed for release of the video, along with three of the four officers involved in the shooting. At least three other students of the school have died in off-campus shootings this year. The school remained closed Monday.