The Greensboro City Council has agreed to release portions of a video capturing a police officer's fatal shooting of a Vietnamese woman. The council also approved the state's first policy about releasing body-camera footage.
Greensboro's city manager will now have full responsibility over whether to release footage from cameras worn by officers.
The News and Record of Greensboro reports the measure passed by a vote of 6-2.
The motion was coupled with a decision to release footage of former officer Tim Bloch's shooting of Chieu Di Thi Vo from a confrontation in March of 2014.
The department had maintained that the video was technically part of Bloch's personnel file.
Vo's family watched the video last week and said it didn't match statements made by the police department.
Police chief Wayne Scott says the video, as well as 911 recordings and radio communications, will be presented in a media briefing next week. That briefing will be released via the city's public-access TV channel and website.
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