NC prosecutor won't file charges against deputies in Brown Jr. shooting or release body cam footage.
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« on: May 18, 2021, 11:46:23 AM »

https://apnews.com/article/nc-state-wire-shootings-f34de258510be2f3c6332e92d53eec67

"ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina sheriff’s deputies were justified in their fatal shooting of a Black man in April because the man ignored their commands and drove his car directly at one of them before they fired any shots, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Andrew Brown Jr.’s actions caused deputies to believe it was necessary to use deadly force, District Attorney Andrew Womble told a news conference. He said he would not be filing criminal charges against any of the deputies, who were trying to take Brown into custody while serving drug-related warrants at his house."

Not surprising, but also not good for Elizabeth City. A lot of people felt like releasing the body cam footage was a no-brainer, but this decision could cause tensions in the city to get worse.
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« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2021, 12:01:09 PM »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/18/gabriel-adkins-police-urinating-property/

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Last month, Elizabeth City, N.C., council member Gabriel Adkins held back tears as he delivered a speech to his colleagues hours after police fatally shot Andrew Brown Jr., saying that he feared he might be next.

Now, after joining protesters demanding that video of the shooting be released, he claims police are targeting him. Twice last week, Adkins said, surveillance video at a funeral home he owns showed a police officer in uniform urinating on his property.

“I’m completely furious that any member of the sheriff department would think these acts are acceptable,” Adkins told The Washington Post in an email. “This is a funeral home. A place where we house family’s loved ones. I have lost all trust and respect for our sheriff department.”
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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2021, 12:08:01 PM »

Why not release the footage and prove that the shooting was justified?

Believe or not, if they could show that it was, the temperature would cool off like it has in a few other cases. I remember a particular incident in Pennsylvania(?) that people protested for a little while and then dissipated nce it was demonstrated that the cops had no choice.
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2021, 12:12:36 PM »

Well yeah. Cops don't like accountability. They don't believe they need to justify their actions. The Floyd verdict only went the way that it did because of the nationwide uproar. They know people will get burnt out and won't make the same amount of noise for every case. That's how they get away with this.
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2021, 12:38:22 PM »

Well yeah. Cops don't like accountability. They don't believe they need to justify their actions. The Floyd verdict only went the way that it did because of the nationwide uproar. They know people will get burnt out and won't make the same amount of noise for every case. That's how they get away with this.
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« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2021, 01:50:35 PM »

 Release the video!
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« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2021, 02:11:36 PM »

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« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2021, 02:38:05 PM »

Well yeah. Cops don't like accountability. They don't believe they need to justify their actions. The Floyd verdict only went the way that it did because of the nationwide uproar. They know people will get burnt out and won't make the same amount of noise for every case. That's how they get away with this.

Do you think it is because of average Americans sporting around with Thin Blue Line masks, etc., validating the police's refusal to change their toxic culture?
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« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2021, 03:42:28 PM »

The video is out
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« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2021, 06:11:45 PM »
« Edited: May 18, 2021, 06:16:47 PM by GP270watch »

 That looked like a hit. This country is seriously nuts. The amount of disproportionate force to use for something as stupid as a "drug raid". Who was this dude, was he El Chapo?

 Video is capturing how pitiful and brutal so many American systems are.
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« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2021, 06:18:09 PM »

That looked like a hit. This country is seriously nuts. The amount of disproportionate force to use for something as stupid as a "drug raid". Who was this dude, was he El Chapo?

 Video is capturing how pitiful and brutal so many American systems are.

The war on drugs is a complete waste of money and is a failure, and the Southern U.S. always has these draconian drug laws

Tom Cotton loves this stuff
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« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2021, 08:02:40 PM »



I posted a thread earlier but I had a feeling the family lied about some details. Brown was in the wrong to begin with, although his intentions were not to murder the cops. The shooting would have been justified, if it was 5 seconds earlier but by the time the cops shot he was already on the run and didn't touch a cop.

Also the large force seems relatively extreme for a drug-crime.
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