NC District Attorney claims Andrew Brown shooting was justified
This is why we keep protesting.
Too many people with power over our lives think our lives don't matter.
District Attorney says deputies who fatally shot Andrew Brown Jr. were justified
(CNN)District Attorney Andrew Womble said Tuesday that the deputies who fatally shot Andrew Brown Jr. last month were justified in using deadly force, citing a North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation probe.
Womble said the shooting, "while tragic, was justified because Mr. Brown's actions caused three deputies to reasonably believe it was necessary to use deadly force to protect themselves and others."
Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by Pasquotank County sheriff's deputies in Elizabeth City on April 21 when they attempted to serve him with an arrest warrant, according to the sheriff's office.
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Womble, the district attorney for Pasquotank and nearby counties, has said Brown's moving vehicle made contact with law enforcement officers twice before the deputies opened fire. But the Brown family and their attorneys, who have watched body-camera and dash-cam videos of the shooting, say Brown was not a threat to the officers.
"It was absolutely, unequivocally unjustified," attorney Chance Lynch said last week. "Our legal team is more committed now to pursue justice ... because what we saw today was unconstitutional and it was unjustifiable."
A copy of Brown's death certificate says he died as a result of a gunshot wound of the head, and an autopsy commissioned by Brown's family specified the shot was to the back of his head.
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