North Carolina City Where Andrew Brown Jr. was killed Backs Black Lives Matter Mural
Black Lives Matter painted on a Washington, D.C., street (Image: Twitter)
Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man, was killed in April by a sheriff’s deputy in Elizabeth City, N.C. The town is now asking artists to pitch ideas for a ‘Black Lives Matter’ street art project.
The project would be painted on the street in front of the Pasquotank County sheriff’s office, WAVY reported. Councilman Darius Horton introduced the idea. He remarked that he hoped the project, which would paint the words “Black Lives Matter” on the length of Colonial Avenue outside City Hall in downtown Elizabeth City, would send a message to the community that “yes all lives matter, but right now black lives matter”.
An eyewitness says deputies fired at Andrew Brown Jr. multiple times as he tried to drive away from them last month. The car skidded out of Brown s yard and eventually hit a tree, said Demetria Williams, who lives on the same street. (May 4)
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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.
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.