Police are fueling outrage over Andrew Brown Jr.’s death by withholding information, experts say Joel Shannon, USA TODAY
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After deputies in North Carolina fatally shot a Black man last week, law enforcement offered promises of transparency. But few facts emerged – a void of information that raised suspicions and helped stoke national outrage, according to experts.
Andrew Brown Jr. was killed April 21 as sheriff s deputies tried to execute drug-related search and arrest warrants at his house in the town of Elizabeth City. Since then, little official comment has followed, despite pleas from Brown s family and mounting legal pressure.
The FBI is opening a civil rights investigation into the death of Andrew Brown Jr.
The announcement on Tuesday came after his family claimed that when the dad was shot dead by deputies, his hands were on his steering wheel.
“The FBI Charlotte Field Office has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the police-involved shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr.,” an FBI spokesman said.
“Agents will work closely with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina and the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice to determine whether federal laws were violated.”
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ELIZABETH CITY A North Carolina sheriff said Thursday that he has put four deputies involved in the case of a Black man who was fatally shot last week back on active duty after a review of body camera video showed they did not fire their weapons.
Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten announced in a news release that he has reinstated four of the seven deputies who were placed on administrative leave after the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr. The other three deputies will remain on leave until investigations are completed, Wooten said.
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(Reuters) â Four North Carolina deputies suspended over the fatal shooting of a Black man while trying to serve him with a search warrant have returned to duty after investigators found they never fired their guns, but three others who did will remain on leave, their sheriff said on Thursday.
Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten released the names of all seven deputies placed on administrative leave after the April 21 shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr., 42, in Elizabeth City, a riverfront town near the Virginia border.
Brownâs family and their lawyers have accused the officers involved in the deadly confrontation of using unnecessary lethal force against someone who posed no threat and was attempting to flee, characterizing the shooting as an âexecution.â