Editorial Roundup: North Carolina Winston-Salem Journal. May 1, 2021. Editorial: Police video law leads to mistrust The tortuous slow drip of police video footage in the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City has confounded national media, which have struggled to explain this state’s convoluted police video law to the rest of the country. Welcome to North Carolina. And if it’s any consolation to our visitors, we don’t get it either. As counter as the law is to the spirit of trust, open government and accountability, that’s how we roll here. And it needs to end.