Nonviolent but not peaceful protests aim to bring about change in Elizabeth City Martha Quillin, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
May 29 Marchers in Elizabeth City protesting the April 21 officer shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. quickly fell into a rhythm last Tuesday night, their feet and voices rising and falling almost in unison.
Through the streets of downtown, their now-familiar chants ricocheting off the old brick buildings. They returned again and again to a refrain that after five weeks of marching has become both a rallying cry and a solemn promise. No justice? they shouted. No peace! No justice?
DA Andrew Womble said no officers will be criminally charged.
Black Lives Matter protesters threatened an economic boycott in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on Wednesday, after a local prosecutor announced that the deputies who shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr. last month while serving drug-related search and arrest warrants will not be charged.
Protesters reacted to Tuesday s announcement by Andrew Womble, elected district attorney for Judicial District 1, with a march from the Pasquotank Public Safety Building, where the anticipated news conference took place. Womble, whose district covers seven counties of the northeastern part of the state, said the April 21 shooting that killed Brown while tragic, was justified.
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