Federal prosecutors have determined that they won't file any charges against a police officer who fatally shot a man who defied orders by stepping out of a car during a traffic stop with his hands raised.

The December 2014 shooting of Jerame Reid in Bridgeton was captured on a patrol car's dashboard camera.

U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced on Monday that an investigation by his office determined that there was insufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges. He said that the office found no charges were warranted after viewing the evidence as a whole.

On the video, Officer Braheme Days removed a gun from the car and pulls his weapon. Days shouts for Reid to put his hands up and not move, but Reid steped out of the vehicle with his hands up.

Prosecutors have said that Days fired seven shots and his partner, Officer Roger Worley, fired once. But only the shots fired by Days struck Reid.

Prosecutors said that the shooting lasted approximately 2 seconds, and Reid was hit in the chest and left arm.

A grand jury in Cumberland County declined to indict the officers last summer.

Reid's shooting stirred anger in Bridgeton, a struggling, mostly minority city of 25,000 residents south of Philadelphia. It occurred after the killings of black men in New York and in Ferguson, Missouri, that triggered months of turbulent protests, violence and calls for a re-examination of police use of force.

Reid's family has reached a tentative settlement in a federal lawsuit that still must be approved by a judge.

By Prakriti Neogi