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| Tensions are rising in the shooting of Andrew Brown, Jr. |
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Elizabeth City has declared a state of emergency. The city is preparing for potential unrest after the family of Andrew Brown, Jr. got to see a portion of the police shooting.
His family is saying it was an execution.
Seven deputies have been placed on administrative leave following the shooting, two others have resigned and one deputy retired, Wooten has said. Not all the deputies who were placed on administrative leave discharged their firearms, he added, but they were all part of the warrant operation.
The family is also angered over the body camera footage only showing 20 seconds of the shooting.
Brown, 42, was fatally shot by Pasquotank County sheriff's deputies in Elizabeth City on Wednesday when they attempted to serve him with an arrest warrant, the sheriff's office said. It appears that they shot him when he was trying to flee. He was unarmed and his family said he's wasn't trying to kill police officers with his vehicle.
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| Brown's family calls it an execution. |
Few details -- and no video -- have been released publicly about the shooting. In dispatch audio from that day, first responders can be heard saying a man had gunshot wounds to the back. A copy of his death certificate says he died as a result of a gunshot wound of the head.
On Monday afternoon, after an earlier delay, Pasquotank County Attorney Michael Cox showed Brown's family and attorneys a short clip from one deputy's body camera that family attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter said showed an "execution."
Cherry-Lassiter said the video was 20 seconds long and shows deputies shot at Brown as he sat in his vehicle with his hands on the steering wheel. "He wasn't reaching for anything, he wasn't touching anything, he wasn't throwing anything around," she said.
Brown then put the vehicle in reverse and backed out of the driveway, and deputies shot at him as he drove off, she said. The vehicle, riddled with bullet holes, crashed into a tree, she said.
The family's attorneys decried the lack of transparency and disrespect in only showing a short clip from a single deputy's body camera. About seven or eight deputies, each presumably equipped with a body camera, were on scene, Cherry-Lassiter said.
In a video statement posted to Facebook, Pasquotank Sheriff Tommy Wooten said: "This tragic incident was quick and over in less than 30 seconds, and body cameras are shaky and sometimes hard to decipher. They only tell part of the story."
The sheriff has said there were "many" body cameras at the scene.
Chief Deputy Daniel Fogg said it would be inappropriate to comment on the case until all the evidence is collected.
"They are trying to hide something," civil rights attorney Ben Crump said. "They don't want us to see everything."
Crump has dealt with a lot of high profile cases going back to Trayvon Martin. His most notable cases include Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Daunte Wright and Atiana Jefferson.
Bakari Sellers, a Brown family attorney, said Cox tried to prevent several of the attorneys from viewing the video in the first place.
"Mr. Cox told me, a grown Black man, that he was not fucking going to be bullied," Sellers said.
According to North Carolina law, law enforcement body camera footage can only be released to the public with a court order.
Elizabeth City declared a state of emergency Monday morning amid concerns that the video's release could lead to civil unrest. According to the city's emergency proclamation, city officials will also file a formal request with the sheriff's office for the public release of the video.
Folks are concern that civil rights attorney Ben Crump is getting too much attention. He is now involved in the latest police shooting of an unarmed person of color. Some Black leaders and the far-right enablers of color are calling him an "ambulance chaser."
Let's first start off with Leo Terrell, a former civil rights attorney turned far-right enabler of white supremacy. He's already on the attack of Crump involved in the Brown police shooting.
Tamir Rice's mother Samaria Rice had also called out Crump for showing up at every police killing of a person of color.
"I'm tired of you Black Lives Matter (Tamika Mallory and crew) bitches that's riding on these families' back and y'all ambulance chasing (Ben Crump and Lee Merritt) too; y'all have fuck up our fight. Y'all can kiss my ass too....," she said. "Make it make sense, You can't [be] working with the devil [so] why is easy to do!" Fuck y'all!"
Protests are happening in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Los Angeles, Nashville, Columbus, Knoxville, Spotsylvania County, Virginia and Elizabeth City. These areas are the scenes of high profile shootings.
