Last week we told you about a police shooting in North Carolina that left a black man dead as he was reportedly trying to escape. Police had had arrived to conduct a search warrant.
According to Fox News, “the search warrant for Brown’s home in Elizabeth City states that a drug task force had been watching him for more than a year and had confidential information from an informant about buying crack, meth and heroin.”
There were few other details about what actually happened from officials, but a neighbor claimed that police shot the man as he was driving away in his vehicle. Which of course has caused outrage.
Whether that’s what really happened, we don’t yet know. But today is the day the police bodycam footage will be released and the mayor has already declared a state of emergency:
FOX NEWS – Elizabeth City, North Carolina officials declared a state of emergency Monday ahead of the possible public release of body camera footage of the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. during a drug-related warrant executed by sheriff’s deputies last week.
Brown’s family and their attorneys were expected to be privately shown the video at the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office Monday morning and hold a news conference immediately following.
Ben Crump, the high-profile civil rights attorney who secured the $27 million civil lawsuit in Minneapolis for the family of George Floyd, as well as attorneys Harry Daniels, Bakari Sellers and Brown’s relatives, will be present.
Ben Crump is the race-baiting hack family lawyer that first got national attention for representing the family of Trayvon Martin. So he’s going to inflame the situation as much as possible, which means there probably will be riots, looting and burning.
I’ve been checking Twitter and thus far, the family hasn’t received a private showing of what happened yet. It was originally scheduled for 11:30am, however police said something needed to be redacted and thus they needed more time:
NEW: Pasquotank County, N.C. authorities say they're working to "blur faces" from bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of #AndrewBrown. They say they "hope" that process is done today, and they will show the footage to the family after that process is complete. pic.twitter.com/BBzfaYPFzj
— Sarah McCammon📻 (@sarahmccammon) April 26, 2021
We’ll bring you that footage as soon as it’s released so you can see what really happened.