FBI will investigate police killing of Andrew Brown
Protestors take to the streets for the 4th straight day calling for the release of body cam footage of the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City, North Carolina on April 24, 2021. - Eyewitnesses say that Brown Jr. was shot and killed by Pasquotank County Sheriff deputies as he was attempting to evade them while they were serving him a warrant. The department has released few details over the incident as members of the community ask for transparency and the release of body cam footage.
((Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) (Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images))The FBI on Tuesday announced it will conduct a federal civil rights investigation into the death of 42-year-old Andrew Brown, Jr., a Black man whom North Carolina police shot and killed last Wednesday while serving an arrest warrant.
The investigation will be a collaboration between the Department of Justice, the US Attorney’s Officer for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and the Charlotte, North Carolina, division of the FBI, a bureau spokesperson said on Tuesday.
“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,” Shelley Lynch said. “As this is an ongoing investigation, we cannot comment further.”
