SECONDS BEFORE KILLING
Andrew Brown latest – Video shows ‘militarized’ police fleet rushing to black man’s home before shooting
NEW video released by Elizabeth City shows the seconds before Andrew Brown Jr.'s police shooting death in which a "militarized" sheriff's car is seen racing down a quiet residential street before his fatal shooting.
The City Council for the city shared the video a week after shooting and after just as many days of backlash from the public demanding the
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In the video released, which appears to be taken from a street camera on a residential street, a Pasquotank County Sheriff's vehicle is seen driving the quiet tree-lined road with several deputies clad in tactical gear.
Seconds later, the car turns the corner and pulls into a driveway, just as the video pauses for a few seconds and jumps to deputies outside of the vehicle shouting inaudibly.
Sirens are heard in the background just as more law enforcement personnel appear in the video rerouting traffic.
Civil Rights attorney Ben Crump, who shared the video and was able to secure $27 million for the family of in a civil suit against the city of , called the deputies "militarized police."
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"Just-released footage of the militarized police force rushing to kill Andrew Brown," he . "This has become a constant sight across America, the evolution of policing that's now terrorizing communities of color!"
to serve drug-related search and arrest warrants.
according to an independent autopsy led out by attorneys for Brown's family.
It wasn't until Monday when his family was sitting in his car when he was shot.
Chantel Cherry-Lassiter, a lawyer for Brown's family, said deputies had "numerous assault rifles at the scene."
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Brown tried to back out of the driveway to avoid the deputies when he was shot, Cherry-Lassiter said, which eventually caused him to crash into a tree.
"We watched this over and over and over to make sure we were sure about what was going on and what was transparent," Cherry-Lassiter said.
"He finally tries to try to get away and he backs out – not going toward the officers at all. At no time in the 20 seconds that we saw was he threatening the officers in any kind of way."
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