NC - Andrew Brown Jr., 40, fatally shot by sheriff’s deputy, Elizabeth City, 21 Apr 2021

[MsBetsy]

My brother and nieces live in Elizabeth City. Everyone is on edge and expecting the worst. The trouble releasing the video and then only being able to view one body cam from far away and that one heavily redacted only throws fuel on the fire, IMO.
I don't see how the Sheriff Department can justify shooting a man in the back, through the back car window.

I don't understand why officials haven't made any further statements. They must have had time to investigate and review the body cam footage to at least be able to say whether or not the officers will be facing charges.

They need to either condemn their actions or give a reason why the shooting was justified. I can't imagine why seven police officers can't arrest one man without killing him. Did they consider the vehicle backing up an immediate threat to their lives? What about before that, when he allegedly had his hands on the wheel when they first started shooting? What happened before that? The public needs more details, and soon. Imo

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Geena Arevalo
@GeenaA_WAVY
NEW: The legal team for Andrew Brown’s family say an independent autopsy shows Brown died from a gunshot wound in the back of his head. They say there were 4 bullet wounds to his arm. @WAVY_News

 

[imstilla.grandma]

It starts at about 17:00

 

[sds71]

Jason Marks
@jasonmarkswavy
Here is where the attorneys say Brown was shot.

 

[MimosaMornings]

Andrew Brown shooting: family describe him as a loving father with a sense of humor

I hope none of the children were in the home at the time of the shooting.

Andrew Brown Jr. search warrant: Drug deals captured on camera weeks before fatal police shooting

 

[GarAndTeed]

I really want to know why 7 officers are on admin. leave & 3 were fired; very suspicious. Plus, since when do they shoot people in the back/side of the head?

 

[cvaldez1975]

Andrew Brown shooting: family describe him as a loving father with a sense of humor

I hope none of the children were in the home at the time of the shooting.

Andrew Brown Jr. search warrant: Drug deals captured on camera weeks before fatal police shooting

re: second link.. so? arrest him then. (general so not you MM )

 

[sds71]

@dani__battaglia

FBI spokeswoman Shelley Lynch confirmed via email that the FBI has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr.

Agents will work closely with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina and the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice to determine whether federal laws were violated," FBI spokesperson Shelley Lynch says, according to The News & Observer's Danielle Battaglia.

 

[Sillybilly]

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[imstilla.grandma]

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20691726/brown-autopsy.pdf

Andrew Brown Jr. Was Shot 5 Times, Once in the Back of the Head: Independent Autopsy

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The video was obtained through a FOIA request by FOX8 sister stationWAVY. It is not the deputy body camera video. Officials have yet to release that to the public.

In the city-owned video, Elizabeth City Police Chief Eddie Buffalo provided to WAVY News 10, you can see deputies arriving in the back of a pickup truck on Wednesday, April 21. The city camera is mounted on a utility pole along Brown’s street.

The truck turns toward Brown’s driveway. You can hear deputies yell, “Get your hands up.”

The video begins to glitch at this point and audio drops out for about 20 seconds. This is reportedly when the gunfire is taking place. Buffalo told WAVY News the loud sounds caused the camera to glitch.

What you can’t see is what Brown’s attorneys described after they watched the body camera footage. They said the deputies jumped out and surrounded Brown’s car. At some point, they started shooting. Brown was in his car with his hands on the steering wheel, according to the family. Brown was shot four times in the right arm and then once in the back of the head, a private autopsy released by the family shows.
New video shows deputies arriving to serve warrant at Andrew Brown’s home | myfox8.com

 

[SBops]

The video was obtained through a FOIA request by FOX8 sister stationWAVY. It is not the deputy body camera video. Officials have yet to release that to the public.

In the city-owned video, Elizabeth City Police Chief Eddie Buffalo provided to WAVY News 10, you can see deputies arriving in the back of a pickup truck on Wednesday, April 21. The city camera is mounted on a utility pole along Brown’s street.

The truck turns toward Brown’s driveway. You can hear deputies yell, “Get your hands up.”

The video begins to glitch at this point and audio drops out for about 20 seconds. This is reportedly when the gunfire is taking place. Buffalo told WAVY News the loud sounds caused the camera to glitch.

What you can’t see is what Brown’s attorneys described after they watched the body camera footage. They said the deputies jumped out and surrounded Brown’s car. At some point, they started shooting. Brown was in his car with his hands on the steering wheel, according to the family. Brown was shot four times in the right arm and then once in the back of the head, a private autopsy released by the family shows.
New video shows deputies arriving to serve warrant at Andrew Brown’s home | myfox8.com

Disgraceful. Why was all that manpower needed to arrest one man for a victimless crime?

 

[Reasonable & Just]

The video was obtained through a FOIA request by FOX8 sister stationWAVY. It is not the deputy body camera video. Officials have yet to release that to the public.

In the city-owned video, Elizabeth City Police Chief Eddie Buffalo provided to WAVY News 10, you can see deputies arriving in the back of a pickup truck on Wednesday, April 21. The city camera is mounted on a utility pole along Brown’s street.

The truck turns toward Brown’s driveway. You can hear deputies yell, “Get your hands up.”

The video begins to glitch at this point and audio drops out for about 20 seconds. This is reportedly when the gunfire is taking place. Buffalo told WAVY News the loud sounds caused the camera to glitch.

What you can’t see is what Brown’s attorneys described after they watched the body camera footage. They said the deputies jumped out and surrounded Brown’s car. At some point, they started shooting. Brown was in his car with his hands on the steering wheel, according to the family. Brown was shot four times in the right arm and then once in the back of the head, a private autopsy released by the family shows.
New video shows deputies arriving to serve warrant at Andrew Brown’s home | myfox8.com

So do the police normally just pack into flatbeds and ride around like that? Doesn't seem safe for them, and seems like an unnecessarily menacing (and unprofessional) look.

 

[SBops]

So do the police normally just pack into flatbeds and ride around like that? Doesn't seem safe for them, and seems like an unnecessarily menacing (and unprofessional) look.

I agree. It is like we see in clips of third world countries. And for a drug sale warrant?

 

[oceanblueeyes]

People shot to death by U.S. police, by race 2021 | Statista

“Sadly, the trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 213 civilians having been shot, 30 of whom were Black, in the first three months of 2021.”

My eyesight is poor,and I'm on my cell, but does it list the circumstances on each one this year?

Does it state if they were armed with a lethal weapon at the time like a knife, or firearm or other type of weapons?

I'm not familiar with this site, but the last stat I read from the DOJ iirc 9 unarmed AAs were shot, and killed with around 27 white, Hispanic were unarmed when shot.

Out of 335M total population officers shoots, and kills around a thousand on average each year.

We are already in the second quarter.

TIA MM.

Jmho

 

[MimosaMornings]

My eyesight is poor,and I'm on my cell, but does it list the circumstances on each one this year?

Does it state if they were armed with a lethal weapon at the time like a knife, or firearm or other type of weapons?

I'm not familiar with this site, but the last stat I read from the DOJ iirc 9 unarmed AAs were shot, and killed with around 27 white, Hispanic were unarmed when shot.

Out of 335M total population officers shoots, and kills around a thousand on average each year.

We are already in the second quarter.

TIA MM.

Jmho

I am on my cell also and did not see that information.
Sorry I couldn’t be of more assistance.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

I agree. It is like we see in clips of third world countries. And for a drug sale warrant?

Looked more like a gang drive-by shooting to me. I was blown away by what we saw. In a family neighborhood? Maybe I don’t get out much but you’d have thought they were on a military mission. Seeking a terrorist. In Afghanistan.

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

Andrew Brown Jr. search warrant: Drug deals captured on camera weeks before fatal police shooting

Andrew Brown Jr. – a Black man fatally shot as sheriff's deputies executed a warrant in Elizabeth City, N.C., on April 21 – was described as a drug dealer in the Pasquotank County area and had a criminal rap sheet over 180 pages long and dating back to May 1988, according to a copy of the search warrant and other records obtained by Fox News.

 

[SBops]

Andrew Brown Jr. search warrant: Drug deals captured on camera weeks before fatal police shooting

Andrew Brown Jr. – a Black man fatally shot as sheriff's deputies executed a warrant in Elizabeth City, N.C., on April 21 – was described as a drug dealer in the Pasquotank County area and had a criminal rap sheet over 180 pages long and dating back to May 1988, according to a copy of the search warrant and other records obtained by Fox News.

So he deserved to be executed?

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Search Warrant
https://www.wavy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/04/SNews-Scann21042618150.pdf

https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/29/56/0c44697042df98dc85064163c206/search-warrant-part-1.pdf

https://www.wavy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/04/SOE_42621_Corrected.pdf

Photo: Attorneys for the family of Andrew Brown Jr.,…

Attorneys for the family of Andrew Brown Jr., Wayne Kendall, left, and Ben Crump hold a news conference Tuesday, April 27, 2021 outside the Pasquotank County Public safety building in Elizabeth City, N.C., to announce results of the autopsy they commissioned. The attorneys say an independent autopsy shows that Brown, a Black man, was shot five times, including in the back of the head. Brown was shot Wednesday by deputies serving drug-related search and arrest warrant. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)
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