Mallory Thornton, of Durham, leads chants on a bullhorn while demonstrators marched peacefully in Elizabeth City, N.C., on Monday April 26, 2021, after family viewed 20 seconds of police body camera video of the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr. Brown was killed the week before by Pasquotank County Sheriff s deputies serving a warrant. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. The FBI launched a civil rights probe Tuesday into the death of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina, as his family released an independent autopsy showing he was shot five times, including in the back of the head.
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Attorney Bakari Sellers, shown here in April, said Wednesday that Brown did not get justice in life, and so far he hasn’t even gotten justice in death.” (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
ELIZABETH CITY, NC The family of Andrew Brown, Jr. has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Pasquotank County Sheriff s Office seeking damages of more than $30 million, according to reports.
Brown was shot to death in April by sheriff s deputies attempting to arrest him on drug charges. Decrying the fact he was unarmed, protesters descended upon Elizabeth City, making the incident a national story in the wake of numerous police deaths involving white officers encountering Black people.
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