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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police refused under mounting pressure Thursday to release video that could resolve wildly different accounts of the shooting of a black man, as the National Guard arrived to try to head off a third night of violence in Charlotte.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said that releasing police dashcam and body camera footage of the killing of 43-year Keith Lamont Scott could undermine the investigation. He told reporters the video will be made public when he believes there is a “compelling reason” to do so.

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“You shouldn’t expect it to be released,” Putney said. “I’m not going to jeopardize the investigation.”

An undisclosed number of National Guardsmen assembled in Charlotte, sent in by Gov. Pat McCrory after a second consecutive night of racial unrest that seemed at odds with Charlotte’s image as a diverse, forward-looking banking capital of the New South.