The sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr. while attempting to serve an arrest warrant will not face charges, District Attorney Andrew Womble said Tuesday.
Womble presented his findings as the final word on the issue, going so far as to say body cam footage WILL NOT be released.
Who didn’t see this outcome coming?
Wombles wobble but they won’t indict.
“He could comply, or he could try to flee. And when he tried to flee, he put their lives in danger.”
Such BS. So now fleeing = threatening officers lives? worthy of summary execution? JFC.
It is a two-tiered Justice System. No way it is not.
Time to call in the Civil Rights Division.
It was his own fault for having my Brown as a last name. How about releasing that “dead skunk” video for the world to see?
That’s an extrajudicial execution. Nobody fired when the car briefly backed up, so there is no justification for anyone being behind the car. Then the car stops briefly, so that threat is over. The car then moves forward but turns left to avoid running into the cops, who open fire on him from both sides and behind with nobody in front of the car. Then they continue firing well after the car is past them.
It’s not a justified shooting.
If the investigtion is over, no reason to keep the tapes from the family (and the lawyers) and the public/press.
Already been done. I’d kinda like to see the DA included in that investigation.
Absolutely!
All men of color have to do is comply, right…?
Why is it that black people have to apologize for being murdered?
As with Tamir Rice and so many of these situations, the police created the situation they then acted upon. You feel you are serving a high-risk warrant, but you apparently didn’t have any of the many deputies on hand stand watch over any vehicle on the property? That would be failure #1 here, and I think they knew it - better to fire away than explain back at the station how you let the suspect hop in his car and drive away.
Also, Mr. Womble, I believe the judge is going to have the final word on what video footage gets released, and your statements otherwise aren’t bolstering your case.
“District Attorney Andrew Womble Saves His Job while Furthering His Political Ambitions”
FIFY
Nobody’s fooled. This motherfucker would have been DONE…career over…kaput…in NC were he to bring charges. Now, instead, he’ll be hailed as the hero who helped cause more “BLM Antifa riots” that the GQP Trump KKKult and police departments will use to generate white Christian nationalist propaganda.
What are you talking about? Never seen a murdered black person apologizing, pride gets the best of them…
…and this is why we make a federal case of it.
Womble argued against the release of body camera footage in court last month, telling a judge that releasing the video could bias the investigatory process. “You cannot swing a skunk in front of a group of people and then ask them not to smell it,” he said.
That definitely raises more questions in my mind that it assuages. If the video doesn’t show “bad” things happening for the prosecution’s (lack of) case, how would it be like a skunk that shouldn’t be smelled? If that’s his argument, I question his ability to think and act logically and reasonably.
The perspective from this body cam certainly doesn’t help Brown. Which makes me wonder why not show the rest. If it’s such a clean and legit shooting, let’s see all the other angles, not just the one.
No criminal charges filed, a civil lawsuit paid out by the taxpayers of Elizabeth City, no consequences for the trigger happy officers, and we’ll all meet back here for the next shooting of a black man in a few weeks if not days.
That video will be handed over in civil discovery. And it won’t pass any smell tests then either.
They’ll try to figure out some excuse not to hand it over for the civil case. Or lose it between now and then.