A day after North Carolina’s governor declared a state of emergency amid violent protests following the police killing of a black man, Charlotte’s police chief said Thursday the agency will not publicly release video footage of Keith Lamont Scott’s death.

A black officer from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department killed Scott, 43, on Tuesday outside an apartment complex while serving a warrant on somebody else. The officer, who has been placed on administrative leave, said Scott had a handgun as he got out of a vehicle and did not follow orders to drop it. Friends and family members maintain Scott was carrying a book—an assertion flatly denied by Kerr Putney, the police chief. At a press conference, he said the authorities retrieved a handgun Scott “was holding in his hand when he got out of the vehicle.”

Shooting victim Keith Lamont Scott (credit: Facebook)

The chief is currently investigating the incident, which is yet another instance of police shooting a black man in the US. According to various watchdog sources—the Washington Post, The Guardian and the Killed by Cops database—between 706 and 844 people have been killed by US cops in 2016. Of that total, the North Carolina ACLU notes 194 deceased black Americans.