Video shows unarmed man shot dead by police in New Jersey

The newly released footage from a police dashboard camera shows police in a 30 December stop that escalated quickly after one officer warned his partner about seeing a gun in the glove compartment of the Jaguar.

Bridgeton officer Braheme Days, who is black, screams over and over at the passenger, Jerame Reid, who is also black, “Show me your hands!” and “If you reach for something, you’re going to be f****** dead!”

The officer appears to reach into the car to remove the gun. But the brief standoff ends with Reid disregarding orders not to move, stepping out and getting shot.

The shooting has touched off protests in Bridgeton, a struggling city of about 25,000 people – two-thirds of them black or Hispanic – outside Philadelphia.

The case came after months of turbulent demonstrations and violence over the killings of unarmed black men by white police officers in New York and Ferguson, Missouri.