North Carolina District Attorney Announces Deputies Actions In Fatal Shooting Of Andrew Brown Jr ‘Justified’

Protests erupted throughout North Carolina after the Pasquotank District Attorney announced that deputies would not be charged in connection to Andrew Brown Jr’s fatal shooting. Brown’s family is urging the Justice Department to intervene after Pasquotank District Attorney Andrew Womble announced that deputies who fatally shot Brown were justified in using deadly force. In a statement yesterday, attorneys for the family said “we certainly got neither transparency nor justice today, we request that the federal Department of Justice intervene immediately.”

During his announcement, Womble played four body camera videos to the public for the first time. Previously Brown’s family, members of the community and Pasquotank Sheriff Tommy Wooten called for those videos to be released to the public. Yesterday, Wooten also announced that the three deputies who fired at Brown while attempting to serve the search warrant will also be reinstated and retrained but that disciplinary action would be taken against the deputies who responded to the scene.