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Protesters call on the City of Graham to fire a controversial police officer.

Douglas Strader was terminated from the Greensboro police department in 2020 after he fired his gun at a fleeing vehicle.

Speakers at a Graham City Council meeting Tuesday demanded the firing of a city police officer after video surfaced showing him pinning a young man against a car during an arrest.

In North Carolina, a Familiar Pattern After the Police Killing of Andrew Brown, Jr. April 27, 20218:01 PM Benjamin Crump, one of the lawyers representing the family of Andrew Brown Jr., points to an autopsy chart that his team conducted showing where Mr. Brown was shot on April 27, 2021 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Joe Raedle/Getty Images On Monday, city officials in Elizabeth City, North Carolina announced that they would be declaring a state of emergency ahead of the potential release of body cam footage of last week’s police killing of Andrew Brown, Jr., an unarmed 42-year-old B...

Graham residents protest hiring of police offer previously fired in Greensboro Several people gathered at Graham's Centennial Park on Saturday to protest the Graham Police Department's recent controversial hire of officer Douglas Strader.  Strader was fired in September from the Greensboro Police Department after he was identified as one of several officers who fired shots at a car fleeing a crime scene. Greensboro officials let Strader go for what they described as "unnecessary use of deadly force."  Protestors at Saturday's rally also emphasized another incident in 2018 in which Strader...