The Andrew Brown shooting bodycam video shows an execution, lawyers for his family say.
Facebook Andrew Brown Andrew Brown Jr. is a North Carolina man whose family and family attorneys say was “executed” by sheriff’s deputies who were serving drug-related search and arrest warrants in Elizabeth City and fired at his car. Outrage has erupted because authorities have not released the bodycam video from the shooting to the public. Authorities have released very few details about what happened to Brown. Brown’s family and lawyers were allowed to see a partial excerpt – only 20 seconds – of the video. The mayor declared a state of emergency as protests grew. In North Carolina, releasing the bodycam video publicly requires the approval of a court. The sheriff has petitioned a court for its release. Here’s what you need to know: Andrew Brown Jr. Was Shot in the Back of His Head, Attorney Says A Black man killed by authorities in North Carolina had his hands on his car steering wheel when he was shot, a family attorney said Monday after watching body camera video. Attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter watched a 20-second portion of body camera video with the family of Andrew Brown Jr. on Monday. She said Brown did… 2021-04-26T21:19:35Z Attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter said in a news conference that Brown was not threatening officers when he was shot. “Let me be clear. This was an execution,” she said. “My dad got executed just by trying to save his own life,” said Khalil Ferebee, one of Brown’s children. “Those officers were in no harm of him at all.” “It was a straight-up execution,” said attorney Wayne Kendall. He said it’s against police protocol to shoot into a moving vehicle not posing a threat to officers. The shooting occurred around 8:30 a.m. on April 21, 2021, WAVY reported. In their initial news conference, authorities declined to provide any details beyond saying the fatal shooting occurred in a search warrant execution and releasing Brown’s name. Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II said, “it’s been a tragic day.” He said it started with a search warrant by deputies. “Andrew Brown Jr. was fatally wounded during this search warrant,” he said. An outside agency is investigating. The deputy who fired was from Pasquotank County and is on administrative leave. “It is tremendously early in this investigation,” Wooten said, promising that eventually all of the details “will come out.” Masha Rogers of the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation promised a thorough investigation. She said authorities would not answer any questions about the details of the case because it was “early in this investigation.” The local district attorney called it a “tragic day.” In the news conference, Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for Brown’s family, said: “We do not feel that we got transparency. We only saw a snippet of the video… Why couldn’t the family see all of the video? They only showed one body-cam video, even though we know there were several.” Crump added: “What is on this video that is so damning that you would risk losing your job so the people can’t see the video? What is it?” He mentioned the Derek Chauvin conviction. “Is that the reason they’re trying to hide the video? Because they don’t want accountability?” Crump asked. He asked “why they keep killing so many unarmed black people who are running away from them? Don’t we have a right to due process?… Sheriff Wooten just show the video.” Andrew Brown Jr.
