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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 sheriff's 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 outside his home on April 21, began at about 3 p.m. at the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City, ...

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 footage to the public for legal reasons. A North Carolina judge also denied requests to publicly relea...

(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 April 21, as deputies served a warrant for drug charges. Coming one day after former Minneapolis police...

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 unlawful as the organizers did not file the necessary notifications to local officials and the crowd w...

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 Sheriff's deputies shot and killed Brown on April 21 while executing search and arrest warrants.  Demonstrators dispersed around 10:30...