Video: Police Shoot Unarmed Black Man

Newly released footage has revealed the moment a man was shot dead during a police traffic stop in New Jersey as he got out of a car.

The footage, captured by a police dashboard camera, shows officers making a traffic stop in Bridgeton, New Jersey, on 30 December.

But the situation becomes increasingly tense as one officer warns his partner that he has seen a gun in the glove compartment of the Jaguar car.

Officer Braheme Days repeatedly shouts at the passenger "show me your hands!" while warning him not to "reach for something" inside the vehicle.

He then appears to reach into the car and remove a gun, but the passenger, Jerame Reid, gets out of the vehicle and is shot several times.

Officer Days and his partner have been placed on leave pending a Cumberland County prosecutor's office investigation.

The shooting has sparked protests in Bridgeton and comes after months of demonstrations over the killings of unarmed black men by white police officers in New York and Ferguson, Missouri.

In the footage, the officers pull over the Jaguar for going through a stop sign.

Officer Days steps back, pulls out his gun and tells the men inside the car to "show me your hands".

He then appears to reach inside the car and remove a handgun.

The driver, Leroy Tutt, can be seen holding his hands out of his open window.

Officer Days refers to Mr Reid by his first name and warns: "I'm going to shoot you! You're going to be dead! If you reach for something, you're going to be f****** dead!"

Mr Reid replies: "I ain't got no reason to reach for nothing, bro. I ain't got no reason to reach for nothing."

Officer Days shouts at Mr Reid not to move, but the passenger door opens and he gets out of the car with his hands held at shoulder height. The officers then fire at least six shots.

Walter Hudson, chair and founder of the civil rights group the National Awareness Alliance, said: "The video speaks for itself that at no point was Jerame Reid a threat and he possessed no weapon on his person.

"He complied with the officer and the officer shot him."

Mr Reid, 36, had spent 13 years in prison for shooting at New Jersey State Police troopers when he was a teenager. He was arrested in 2014 on charges including drug possession and obstruction. Officer Days was one of the arresting troopers.