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Demonstrators, led by clergy, march Wednesday, April 28, 2021 from Mt. Lebanon AME Zion Church in Elizabeth City, N.C., to the site where Andrew Brown Jr. was shot and killed by Pasquotank County Sheriff deputies. A Pasquotank County judge denied the petition by the media to release the body camera footage in the shooting of Brown Jr. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)
Tragedy hit Elizabeth City, N.C., with the death of a 42-year-old Black man, Andrew Brown, Jr. He was fatally shot outside of his home by Pasquotank County sheriffâs deputies when they attempted to serve an arrest warrant.
A controversial hire by Graham police has resulted in a pair of civil rights complaints lodged against the department.
The Rev. Curtis Gatewood, the founder of the Stop Killing Us Solutions Campaign run by an Alamance County-based nonprofit, this week filed complaints with state Attorney General Josh Stein and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. The complaints called on them to investigate the hiring of Doug Strader by Graham police.
Gatewood s complaint noted his belief that hiring Strader puts members of the community in danger.
While a member of the Greensboro Police Department, Strader was one of the officers involved in a 2018 incident in which a man died while under police custody. A controversial restraining method is alleged to have contributed to his death. In September, Greensboro officials formally terminated Strader for having fired his weapon at a car fleeing the scene of a crime at the corner of South Elm and Washington Streets. Graham police Chief