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Black man shot 10 times by Virginia sheriff s deputy who had given him a ride an hour earlier, family says
A police shooting in Northern Virginia, where a Black man was shot 10 times, is now the focus of a state police investigation. Isiah Brown, 32, is in critical condition after he was shot while making a 911 call in the middle of the night.
A sheriff s deputy can be heard saying drop the gun on the body camera footage, but an attorney for Brown and his family said the sheriff s deputy who fired the shots mistook a cordless house phone for a gun. His family also said the same deputy had assisted Brown a short time before the shooting.
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The family attorney for an unarmed man shot and wounded by a Virginia sheriff’s deputy said the shooting occurred because of a “failure of communication” between 911 dispatchers and deputies on the scene.
Isaiah Brown, 32, was shot by a Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s deputy while Brown was on the phone with 911 dispatch, David Haynes, the Brown family attorney, said in a news conference in Spotsylvania Courthouse on Monday morning.
Haynes said the deputy opened fire after mistaking Brown’s cordless phone for a gun.
Brown had “communicated very clearly to dispatch that he had no weapon and there’s no reason that the deputy should not have been informed of that,” Haynes said.
Attorney describes Isaiah Brown shooting as âfailure between officers, 911 dispatchâ
Isaiah Brownâs family demands all audio of encounter with deputies to be released Isaiah Brown (Source: The Cochran Firm) By NBC12 Newsroom | April 26, 2021 at 1:12 PM EDT - Updated April 26 at 7:51 PM
SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WWBT) - The attorney for Isaiah Brownâs family says the shooting was a failure between officers and the 911 dispatcher.
âThis was clearly a failure between dispatch and the officers who arrived on the scene,â the Brown familyâs attorney, David Haynes of The Cochran Firm, said. âThe deputies made terribly, grave and basic policing errors.â
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