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The Barstow Police Department did not immediately respond Saturday to ABC News' request for comment.

Meanwhile, the video, posted online by attorney S. Lee Merritt, shows the Mustang apparently pinned between two marked Barstow Police Department cruisers and then slowly reversing into one of them as a fusillade of bullets can be heard firing.

\"PHOTO:
Elyce Gray
PHOTO: Diante Yarber, 26, was driving this Ford Mustang when Barstow police officers shot into the vehicle and killed him.
>

Merritt has been retained by the family and has already declared that they are going to pursue a lawsuit for Yarber's shooting death, according to KABC.

\"Video evidence shows the black Ford Mustang Yarber was operating backing slowly away from police when they opened fire,\" he told the station.

He also told KABC that the officers' \"firing over 30 rounds into a car occupied by four unarmed pedestrians in a crowded Super Walmart parking lot in the middle of the day was massively irresponsible and reckless.\"

Police argued the footage of the Mustang slowly reversing into the police cruise only shows the moments after Yarber allegedly rammed the squad car.

Anthony Riley, a public information officer for the Barstow Police Department, said in the statement that one officer involved suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

A woman in the Mustang struck by the gunfire was airlifted to Loma Linda Medical Center, according to the statement. The other two men in the car exited the vehicle and were detained by Barstow Police.

\"PHOTO:
Elyce Gray
PHOTO: Diante Yarber, 26, was driving this Ford Mustang when Barstow police officers shot into the vehicle and killed him.
>

Yarber's family released footage of the gunshot-riddled Mustang showing bullet holes on the cracked front windshield. The camera also pans over the side window where the interior of the car is completely destroyed in the aftermath of the shooting.

\"PHOTO:
James Quigg/Daily Press via AP, FILE
PHOTO: Friends and family of Diante "Butchie" Yarber mourn as protesters filled the parking lot of the Barstow police department in this April 10, 2018 file photo in California.
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Yarber's death comes several weeks after a separate police-involved fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. On March 18, two Sacramento cops fired 20 shots at Stephon Clark, who was only carrying a cell phone.

That killing was followed by a spate of protests and civil unrest.

Editor’s note: The headline on an earlier version of this story misstated the location of the shooting. It was in the Walmart parking lot.

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