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Did Andrew Brown have a criminal history?
Updated: Apr 27 2021, 6:08 ET
ANDREW Brown Jr has been described as a career drug dealer who had a criminal rap sheet over 180-pages long.
The 40-year-old was fatally shot by a cop attempting to execute the search warrant on April 21 - sparking protests in Elizabeth City, North Carolina where the shooting occurred demanding transparency.
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Did Andrew Brown have a criminal history?
According to the search warrant signed off a day before his death, Andrew Brown had a criminal rap sheet dating back more than thirty years.
Now details of the search warrant that ultimately led to Brown s death has been revealed.
Andrew Brown, 42, was shot and killed in his car on Wednesday in Elizabeth City
His family were finally allowed to watch body cam from the incident on Monday
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said they saw just 20 seconds of the incident
Attorneys for the family said Brown was shot in the back of his head
They said he had his hands on steering wheel when eight officers opened fire
Calls are mounting for authorities to publicly release the bodycam footage
While law enforcement have released few details of the fatal shooting six days on, the force instead released the search warrant that brought them to Brown
FBI opens federal civil rights investigation into police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. after autopsy shows he was shot in the back of the head and his family call his death a modern-day lynching
Brown was shot in his car in Elizabeth City on April 21; his family had access to bodycam footage Monday
The bureau s Charlotte field office announced they had opened the civil rights investigation Tuesday
Agents will work closely with the Department of Justice to determine whether federal laws were violated
Following the news, lawyers for the Brown family said they have great faith in the investigation
They also called new footage of cops surrounding Brown Jr. s car an inflamed modern-day lynch mob