Andrew Brown Jr. family files $30M lawsuit over shooting by deputies
By Chris Williams
Andrew Brown Jr. shooting: $30M federal lawsuit filed by family
The family of Andrew Brown Jr., who was killed by officers in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, have filed a federal lawsuit against the officers involved in the shooting.
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. - The family of a North Carolina Black man shot and killed by deputies has filed a $30 million lawsuit in federal court Wednesday. I want everyone watching to understand that for Black folk in this country justice is a verb. This is the first step in acting upon this is that first step in action, attorney Bakari Sellers said during a news conference Wednesday.
Andrew Brown Jr family files $30M lawsuit over shooting by deputies
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Not every person of color in the South was enslaved.
It is a point Marvin Tupper Jones, the executive director of the nonprofit volunteer preservation and research organization Chowan Discovery Group, explains in detail. A native of what he describes as the Winton Triangle in Hertford County, Jones traces his heritage to the late 17
th century.
Marvin T. Jones
“My oldest named ancestor was from India. William Weaver shows up around 1690,” he told Coastal Review. Weaver was the father of biracial children who were free.
“These were not enslaved people,” he said.
Citing the late Dr. Ira Berlin, a scholar and historian who studied slavery and race in America, Jones said that at the time it was not uncommon for European men and women to have children with partners of a different race. A professor of history at the University of Maryland, Berlin died in 2018. His books and research are widely credited with changing perceptions of the Black experience in Colonial and antebell
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