Knox County DA says she will release video of police shooting of Austin East student today

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Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen said Wednesday she will release the police bodycam video from the shooting of 17-year-old Anthony J. Thompson Jr. today.

She said the investigation into the police shooting has been completed by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and all evidence has been collected. She has viewed the police and school security videos.  

She said she spent four hours with Thompson's family today. She said the family asked her not to release the tapes but she is standing by her word to release them.  

Allen has been under escalating pressure to let the public see the video. Investigators have released almost no details about what happened in a confrontation between the teenager and police officers in an Austin-East Magnet High School bathroom on April 12. 

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation released two differing accounts of what occurred, including an incorrect assertion that Thompson fired first at officers. 

Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon, Police Chief Eve Thomas, three of the officers involved in the shooting, the Knoxville branch of the NAACP and community activists have said they want the video released. 

The city of Knoxville asked a judge to clarify a local rule regarding whether it can release the video. 

Knox News was joined by nearly all Knoxville media outlets in a separate petition seeking release of the video.

Top media lawyers have said the DA can release the video if she chooses to do so. Allen said at a press conference last week that she will not release the video until she decides whether she will charge any of the officers in Thompson's death. 

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.