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ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. – Family and friends of Andrew Brown Jr. will gather at a funeral service Monday to honor the life of the man fatally shot by North Carolina sheriff s deputies last month in a case that has drawn national attention amid calls for accountability and transparency.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is set to deliver the eulogy at the invite-only funeral at noon Monday. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is part of a team of lawyers representing Brown s family, and the Rev. William Barber II, leader of the Poor People’s Campaign, will also give remarks.
The eveningâs march wound its way through the flat streets of the majority Black city of roughly 18,000 in the stateâs coastal plain near the Outer Banks.
The crowd blocked off several intersections, chanting ârelease the tapeâ and â20 seconds, not enough,â in reference to the short clip of body-camera footage that Brownâs family have been permitted to see.
âYouâre just making it worse by not being transparent,â said Dustin Sidebottom, 50, an Elizabeth City resident who had been arrested protesting on Tuesday but was back on Wednesday, waving a large Black Lives Matter flag.
Sidebottom said officialsâ handling of the Brown case had created a breach of trust that will be extremely difficult to repair.
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