N.C. advocates demand sheriff resign, release footage of shooting
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Keith Rivers, the president of the Pasquotank County Chapter of the NAACP in North Carolina, held a press conference Saturday criticizing the Pasquotank County Sheriff s office for lack of transparency regarding the Wednesday shooting of Andrew Brown, Jr. Image via WAVY TV 10/YouTube
April 24 (UPI) Civil rights leaders called for the resignation of Sheriff Tommy Wooten in North Carolina s Pasquotank County Saturday after deputies from his office shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr. while serving warrants at the man s home Wednesday.
Keith Rivers, the president of the Pasquotank County Chapter of the NAACP, held a press conference Saturday criticizing Wooten for failing to release body camera footage of the shooting, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.
Kamala Harris takes a seat at NC lunch counter where 4 students made history in 1960 Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Apr. 20 RALEIGH The image said it all: the first Black vice president of the United States took a seat at the same Southern lunch counter where four Black college students sat on Feb. 1, 1960, leading to a wave of sit-ins across the country during the civil rights movement.
The moment captured in photos that gained attention nationwide came late Monday at the end of Vice President Kamala Harris s visit to North Carolina, where she pitched the Biden administration s new infrastructure plan.
This MLK Day, his message is as poignant as ever after Capitol racism, NC leaders say Martha Quillin, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jan. 16 In what is sure to become an iconic documentary photo, rioters climbing the west wall of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in their jeans and winter coats are starkly silhouetted against the building s pale gray stone.
As the siege played out for hours on laptops and TVs, many Americans who watched couldn t help but see another glaring contrast: the relative ease with which hundreds of mostly white supporters of President Donald Trump were able to illegally occupy the building that serves as the heart of American democracy on the day Congress planned to affirm the victors of the 2020 presidential election.