mistakes but controlled his temper during the encounter was given a three day unpaid suspension. two different perspectives and one officer did not follow the tactics, training, professionalism and organizational standards. reporter: the police chief making it clear, their administrative investigation was separate from the federal criminal charges both officers were already cleared of. the police department released four videos from the night of the shooting including this surveillance footage from the sss convenience store. that is sterling at the front of the store sitting at a table where he is selling cds. minutes into the tape, he is seen conducting a transaction with an unidentified man. he removes a gun from the front pocket followed by money from the same pocket. within seconds, sterling is seen jokingly making a shooting motion towards the man. that night police were initially called to the asss con veesss c store. watch closely as things escalate
his gun is trained on sterling s head. i ll shoot you in your [ bleep ] head, you hear me? don t you [ bleep ] all right, hold up, you re hurting my arm. reporter: sterling then was pinned to the ground and tased twice. get on the ground! get on the ground! pop him again, howie. reporter: before being fatally shot. [ gunshots ] previously released cell phone videos recorded by bystanders show at this point in the encounter salamoni believed sterling was armed. a gun was recovered from sterling s body. but the federal and state investigations determined that the officer s actions were reasonable and couldn t prove that sterling wasn t reaching for a gun. salamoni s attorney tells me they will appeal the chief s decision to fire him as a matter of principle more than anything else. as this new video circulates, sterling s family is trying to keep his five children from seeing it. the family s attorney says
that sterling wasn t reaching for a gun. again, that was kaylee hartung with that disturbing story there. in florida, the widow of the gunman responsible for the pulse night club massacre is free. on friday a jury found noor salman not guilty of playing any part in connection with her husband s rampage in that club in 2016. omar mateen killed 49 people, wounded dozens others at the orlando night club. cnn s martin savidge has more from the courthouse. reporter: as you can imagine, this was an exceedingly emotional day for noor salman and for her family. inside of the courtroom just before the verdict was read, you could tell that she was frightened. no doubt about that. and family members themselves were holding on to one another as they waited for the verdict coming from the jury. when it was read, it was not guilty on all counts. and then the release and the tears began to flow and the family members began to hug.
the police department released four videos from the nice of the shooting including this this surveillance footage from the convenience store. that is sterling at the front of the store sitting at a table where he is selling cds. he is seen conducting a transaction with an unidentified man. he pulls a gun from his pocket followed by money from the same pocket. within seconds, sterling is seen making a shooting motion towards the man jokingly. that night police were called to the convenience store responding to a 911 call from a witness who saw a man with a gun. watch closely as things escalate quickly. from his perspective, you can see a brief struggle. then the gun is trained on sterling s head. don t you move, i ll shoot you in your head. you hear me? don t you move! don t move! all right. hold up. you re hurting my arm. sterling was then pinned to the ground and tased twice. get on the ground.
was just released. certainly. the first reaction to some extent is a surprise, because we had been led to believe that the body camera video wouldn t show us anything revelatory. now that we ve seen this video almost two years after the shooting, we see all types of new details that would have helped us interpret the shooting back in july 2016. what we see is the immediate escalation of the interaction by officer blane salamoni. we see alton sterling being stunned with a taser even as he was at least partially complying. in that moment when the officer tackles him to the ground leading to the shooting, it appears from this video that alton sterling was standing with his hands up. it raises questions about the police tactics even if this new video doesn t raise to the level of prompting legal charges. page, on one hand it s hard to watch the video. on the other hand, it s hard not to watch it, it is disturbing on so many levels. we know sterling did have a gun, that s important here