VIDEO: LAPD Releases Footage Showing Man with Gun Before Fatal OIS

Los Angeles police released surveillance video Tuesday showing an 18-year-old male suspect running from police while holding what appears to be a gun in his left hand just before he was fatally shot by officers in a police killing that has generated widespread protests.

The footage shows a man wearing sweat pants and sweat shirt crouching behind an SUV and pulling a handgun from his waistband. He then tucks the gun back into his waistband and runs around the corner of a strip mall as officers run after him.

The footage posted to the police department's YouTube channel does not show officers shoot Carnell Snell.  But police said the video supports the account Chief Charlie Beck gave Monday justifying the shooting.

The video was made public just as Black Lives Matter organizers gathered Tuesday morning to protest Snell's killing at a meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission. The board of civilian overseers convened at midmorning and was later called off after demonstrators interrupted speakers and shouted for Beck's resignation, the Associated Press reports.

Protester Melina Abdullah accused police of selectively releasing a portion of video to justify the shooting and "posthumously assassinate the character of our brother Carnell Snell."