The videos show a Greensboro police officer, identified as Cpl. Matthew Sletten, searching for a stolen car that drove off from a traffic stop. When the officer finds the white Nissan in a parking lot, it backs out quickly, clipping his patrol car. As the Nissan makes a hard turn away from the officer, Sletten fires three shots into the car.

Nasanto Crenshaw, 17, died in the Aug. 21, 2022, shooting. Last month, District Attorney Avery Crump said the officer would not face charges in the shooting.

On Tuesday, the Greensboro Police Department released more than 100 videos with hours of footage from body-worn cameras and dash cameras showing the shooting and response.

The video shows almost four minutes past between the shooting and when police started giving first aid to Crenshaw.

“District Attorney Avery Crump and the Greensboro Police Department have hidden the truth for long enough but now that this video is public, it’s undeniable. Even after they have tried to put their spin on it, the facts are clear. Cpl. Sletten’s life was never in any danger,” attorneys representing Crenshaw’s family said in a statement Tuesday. 

“Nasanto Crenshaw was never a threat. He was scared, unarmed and running for his life when this officer gunned him down and killed him,” they said.

The family sued the Greensboro Police Department last month for wrongful death and using excessive force.

The videos show the sequence of events: the officer initially pulled the Nissan over on West Market Street, but the car pulled away when Sletten got out of his patrol car.

When Sletten found the Nissan again in a parking lot, three people ran from the backseat. The Nissan backed up and hit the patrol car. As Crenshaw turned the car and accelerated again through the parking lot, Sletten fired his gun three times.

The Nissan came to rest in the parking lot as Sletten yelled for Crenshaw and a person in the passenger’s seat to get out of the car. The passenger got out and laid on the ground, the video shows, as Sletten held him at gunpoint and called for backup and an ambulance.

“Listen to me so I can get him help,” Sletten told the passenger in the video. “I am not going to hurt you but you need to listen to me.”

“Get me some cars here so I can render aid,” Sletten is heard saying on the video.

As soon as other officers get to the scene, Sletten tries to break open the driver’s side window on the Nissan, then tells another officer to “hit the unlock button.”

About four minutes after the shooting, officers pull Crenshaw from the car and begin giving CPR, the video shows.

The district attorney for Guilford County said Sletten acted in self defense and would not face charges.

“After careful review, although tragic, the use of deadly force by Cpl. Sletten under these circumstances was justified by both the common law principles of self-defense and also by the statutory provisions,” Crump wrote in a letter released March 30.

“The driver of the Nissan backed the car up and turned hard to the right causing the front left of the Nissan to collide with the patrol car,” the DA wrote. This happened just as Sletten was getting out of the car, he said.

The video shows the officer with his gun drawn yelling at the people in the car to get out.

“It is at that moment the Nissan began to accelerate toward Cpl. Sletten, whereupon he discharged his duty weapon three times striking the driver, Nasanto Antonio Crenshaw, three times,” the DA said.

Lawyers for Crenshaw’s family reject the DA’s interpretation of what happened.

“The wheels of the car were clearly turned away from Sletten and he simply wasn’t in the car’s path when he fired the first shot. The front of the car had passed when he fired his second and the car had passed entirely when he fired the third shot killing Nasanto,” they said.

“Cpl. Sletten and District Attorney Crump may not know the difference between a passing car and one trying to run you over, but the people do,” the attorneys’ statement said. “Prosecutors charge killers every day across America with less evidence than this video but apparently District Attorney Crump thinks a badge is a license to kill.”