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Mourners pay tribute to Andrew Brown Jr. with march to memorial service Mourners honor Andrew Brown Jr. in peaceful march UP NEXT Amid ongoing protests over the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. by North Carolina sheriffs deputies, loved ones and supporters of the 42-year-old Black man marched on Sunday afternoon to a museum for a public viewing of his body and memorial service. © Joe Raedle/Getty Images The memorial service and public viewing for Brown, who died in a hail of gunfire out...

Andrew Brown Jr. shooting exposes disconnect between majority rural White county and its mostly Black city For more than a week, protesters have marched in the streets of a small, quaint, North Carolina city that has been rocked by the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. Civil rights leaders and attorneys have converged on Elizabeth City demanding answers and justice after Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office deputies fatally shot Brown and the department said it could not release body camera fo...

(RNS) — Many of North Carolina’s prominent clergy have called for police reform and accountability in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin. But the killing of Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old man shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies in eastern North Carolina’s Elizabeth City, a town of 18,000 people on the bend of the Pasquotank River, is personal. Brown died of multiple gunshot wounds — at least one to the back of the head — on Apr...

Avery Harvey, one of two protestors arrested in Graham this week, and several other community activists gathered in Court Square Thursday night to speak out against the city’s protest ordinance and call for the community to continue protesting what they called the city’s violation of their constitutional rights. On Tuesday, Harvey, of Graham, and Theresa Draughn, of Burlington, were arrested while attending a protest on Court Square in Graham. According to police, the protest was deemed un...

The mother of Eric Garner spoke to members of the North Carolina community Monday. Author: Eugene Daniel (WVEC) Updated: 12:23 AM EDT April 27, 2021 ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Protesters spilled into the streets of Elizabeth City for the sixth consecutive day Monday, as the small North Carolina community continues its calls for the public release of body camera footage of the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr.  Pasquotank County Sheriffs deputies shot and killed B...

Attorney Ben Crump presented an autopsy display, showing Cox had four bullet wounds. Author: Lea Wilson Updated: 6:14 AM EDT March 18, 2021 HIGH POINT, N.C. — The family of a man who was shot and killed by a Davidson County Sheriffs Office deputy in plain clothes spoke Monday after receiving the results of the victim’s autopsy. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, North Carolina activist Rev. Greg Drumwright, and members of Fred Coxs family delivered statements a...

HIGH POINT — More than a hundred protesters Friday morning gathered at the old Brentwood Elementary School — across the street from the church where a Black teenager was shot

North Carolina Congressman Ted Budd the focus of Occupy Grahams protest Share Updated: 11:33 PM EST Jan 13, 2021 Share Updated: 11:33 PM EST Jan 13, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript PROTESTERS TOOK TO THE STREETS IN GRAHAM TONIGHT ANGRY AT A LOCAL CONGRESSMAN FOR VOTING AGAINST CERTIFYING THE ELECTIO WXII’S JUSTIN SHRAIR WAS THERE AND HAS THEIR MESSAGE FROM ALAMANCE COUNT >> THESE PROTESTERS ARE PART OF AN ORGANIZATION CALLED OCCUPY GRAHAM. ON WEDNESDAY THEY M...

Alamance Judges Affirm Press Access To Hearings by Associated Press The Alamance County Courthouse. PAUL GARBER/WFDD FILE Judges in North Carolina have announced new procedures for reporters to access hearings less than two weeks after a newspaper publisher was handcuffed and ordered out of a courtroom. The News & Observer reports that Alamance County judges announced the policy after the newspaper and two other news outlets, the Alamance News and Triad City Beat, asked the ...

Dear Alamance: Cut the Shit, Sincerely INDY Alamance County Courthouse But when Boney—the white-haired publisher of the conservative-leaning Alamance News—tried to cover a local court case, the judge demanded that he leave. Moments later, bailiffs cuffed the bespectacled publisher and forced him out of the building. They weren’t gentle about it, either. We’ve been watching heavy-handed and racist law enforcement practices unfolding publicly in Alamance County for years now....