A Fayetteville State University faculty member s role helping students get NASA internships is only the latest tie between the university and space agency.
“Disgusting” and “embarrassing,” said commenters on social media, who identified themselves as Elizabeth City State students, parents and alumni and students at other HBCUs.
Some people noted the painful relationship between Black communities and police throughout American history and particularly over the last year, in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many other Black Americans, including Andrew Brown Jr., a Black Elizabeth City resident, who was shot and killed by a county sheriff’s deputy on April 21. Protesters have been peacefully marching in the city ever since and calling for the release of body camera footage from deputies who executed a search warrant on Brown and killed him, and more transparency from police and county officials about the shooting.
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Social justice activists in North Carolina’s Elizabeth City are circulating a petition to remove police from the area as small business owners are losing earnings due to the same curfews and protests that have prompted officials to seek outside help from other jurisdictions.
The city has seen nightly protests since the police-involved slaying of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man who was fatally shot in the back of the head as deputies were trying to arrest him.
The Change.org petition is demanding that out-of-town officers who were sent to aid local police responding to nightly unrest be kicked out of the dorms at Elizabeth City State University, a local historically black college, or HBCU.