Demonstrations continue as community awaits bodycam footage from Andrew Brown Jr. shooting
“Come out and talk to us. We just want people to come out and talk to us,” said organizer Kirk Rivers. “Are you just going to continue to let us assume what took place?”
The Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office was attempting to serve an arrest warrant on Brown on Wednesday morning when a car pulled away and deputies fired shots, the office said in a video statement. There are still many questions surrounding the incident that follows other protests across the nation over the deaths of Black men at the hands of police officers.
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Officials on Thursday faced growing pressure to release details about the death of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man who was fatally shot by law enforcement on Wednesday morning in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
Brown was unarmed, said Harry Daniels, the Brown family s attorney. Witness accounts paint a picture of an unlawful, unjustified killing in which multiple law enforcement officers shot as Brown fled the scene in a vehicle, Daniels said at a Thursday press conference.
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Witnesses describe chaotic scene as deputies shot at Andrew Brown Jr.
Neighbors on Thursday described a chaotic scene of North Carolina deputies trying to serve a warrant, a car pulling away and shots fired leaving one man dead.
The shooting took place Wednesday morning in a working-class neighborhood of Elizabeth City in the northeastern corner of the state.
The Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday in a video statement that its special operations and tactical team was attempting to serve an arrest warrant on Andrew Brown Jr. when the shooting occurred.
“Our deputies attempted to serve the arrest warrant. They fired the shots. They’ve been put on administrative leave until we know all the facts,” Sheriff Tommy Wooten said.
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