一个家庭42岁黑人上周死于北卡罗来纳州治安官代表在他家外面发射的枪林弹雨中的人周一说，人体摄像头视频显示他们的亲人被“处决”

七个孩子的父亲小安德鲁·布朗的家人和他们的律师说，县官员只给了他们一个20秒钟的警察身体摄像头视频剪辑。他们说，这段视频显示，多名治安官代表，其中一些人配备了高口径步枪，在布朗的手牢牢抓住方向盘的同时，向他的汽车发射了一发子弹。

布朗的儿子哈利勒·费比在他和几名家庭成员观看视频后说:“我爸爸只是为了救自己的命才被处决的。”。“军官们根本没有伤害他。它只是把事情搞砸了。”

这家人原计划在美国东部时间上午11:30看视频。但是在会议前一个小时，他们被告知一个意外的延迟。布朗一家的律师之一哈里·丹尼尔斯说，他在周一上午10点29分收到了帕绍坦克县检察官迈克尔·考克斯的电子邮件，称正在对视频进行编辑。

丹尼尔斯说:“地区检察官告诉我，这个家庭将会看到原始的录像，而不是编辑过的版本。”。“这些县政府官员正在收回他们做出的承诺。放磁带。如果你没什么好隐瞒的，就把带子拿出来。”

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2021年4月24日，在北卡罗莱纳州伊丽莎白市，示威者在抗议游行中举着标语，呼喊着

下午3点后，这些家庭成员被允许进入治安部门，但官员们拒绝让他们的大多数律师与他们一起观看视频，因为他们不是北卡罗来纳州律师协会的成员。伊丽莎白市的律师尚特尔·切里-莱西特最终被允许和布朗的亲戚一起观看录像。

该家庭的一名州外律师巴卡里·塞勒斯(Bakari Sellers)声称，当他和其他律师抗议并要求被允许观看视频时，考克斯据称斥责了他，并告诉他，“我不会被欺负的。”

“我们认为我们没有透明度。我们只看到了事件的一个片段。他们决定什么是相关的，”本·克伦普说，他是布朗家族的律师之一。

考克斯周一发表声明说，虽然州法律允许县政府私下向布朗的家人展示身体摄像头视频，但州法律“也允许我们在视频上模糊一些人的脸，这一过程需要时间。”

考克斯在声明中说:“为了保护积极的内部调查，这可能是必要的。”。

莱西特说，她和家人多次观看视频剪辑，并做了大量笔记。

“让我们弄清楚，这是一次处决，”切里-莱西特说。“安德鲁·布朗在他的车道上。警长的卡车把他堵在车道上，所以他不能离开车道。安德鲁把手放在方向盘上。他没有伸手去拿任何东西。他什么也没碰。他没有扔任何东西。他双手牢牢地握在方向盘上。”

她说视频剪辑是从副手跑到他的车前开始拍摄的。她说，她数了数，有五名副手站在汽车司机一边向布朗开枪，一边发出猥亵的尖叫，并命令他举手。

“他仍然坐在车里，被枪击时手放在方向盘上，”切里-莱西特说。

她说，布朗最终试图逃脱，以挽救自己的生命。他退出车道，绕过警长的卡车，远离副手。

“在这20秒钟里，我们没有看到他以任何方式威胁警察，”切里-莱西特说。"他试图躲避枪击。"

她说，当布朗驾驶一小段距离并撞上一棵树时，代表们追着车跑，并继续向他开枪。

“在汽车撞上树后，他们仍在向他开枪，”她说。

布朗在现场被宣布死亡。

“我们看了一个视频，20秒从bodycam。那里至少有八名警察。我们只看到了一个人体摄像头，”切里-莱西特说。

礼貌布朗一家

安德鲁·布朗在一张未注明日期的照片中。

参与上周三上午伊丽莎白市枪击事件的七名帕绍坦克县代表已被行政休假，而北卡罗来纳州调查局正在调查这起致命事件的情况。代表的名字还没有公布。

在布朗一家观看之前，伊丽莎白市市长贝蒂·帕克宣布紧急状态周一早上去她的城市。紧急声明于上午8点生效，帕克说它将持续“直到被认为不再必要”。

帕绍坦克县治安官汤米·伍登二世说，他希望提出一项动议，要求法官允许向公众发布视频。

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安德鲁·布朗的小女儿听代理律师本杰明·克伦普的话

“视频和音频片段似乎很有可能在不久的将来发布。为了确保我们公民及其财产的安全，市政官员意识到，在公开发布这段视频后，该市可能会出现一段时间的内乱，”身为黑人的帕克说。

帕绍坦克县的县城伊丽莎白市的市政府办公室周一关闭，包括预算工作会议在内的政府会议被取消。

尽管自布朗去世以来，伊丽莎白市已经连续五天发生和平抗议，但帕克还是下达了命令。

帕绍坦克县治安部门公布了该镇18000人枪击案的一些细节。

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代理律师哈里·丹尼尔斯和本杰明·克伦普，代表安德鲁·布朗的家庭

官员们说，枪击发生在4月21日上午8点30分左右，当时来自帕斯夸塔克县和戴尔县的代表前往布朗的家，试图向布朗送达逮捕令，逮捕令源于一项毒品重罪调查。

当布朗试图开车离开家时，代表们向他的车开火。911调度记录了第一个响应者，说布朗是在背后被枪杀的。

布朗家人的律师说，他的后脑勺中枪，他们计划委托进行独立尸检。

伍登拒绝透露有多少议员开枪。

枪击发生在前明尼阿波利斯警官德里克·肖万因2020年5月25日46岁黑人乔治·弗洛伊德的死亡被判二级无意谋杀、三级谋杀和二级过失杀人罪的一天后。

布朗的家人说，警方在布朗的车辆或家中没有发现武器或毒品。

伍登承诺对布朗家发生的事情保持透明。

“如果我的任何副手违反了任何法律或通过调查得出的任何政策，他们将被追究责任，”伍登说。

Andrew Brown's son says 20-second bodycam video shows his father being 'executed'

The family of a42-year-old Black manwho died in a hail of bullets fired by North Carolina sheriff's deputies outside his home last week said on Monday that body camera video shows their loved one being "executed."

The family members of Andrew Brown Jr., a father of seven, and their attorneys said county officials only offered them a 20-second clip of one police bodycam video. The footage, they said, showed multiple sheriff's deputies, some armed with high-caliber rifles, unleashing a fusillade into Brown's car while his hands were firmly gripped on the steering wheel.

"My dad got executed just by trying to save his own life," Brown's son, Khalil Ferebee, said after he and several family members watched the video. "The officers were in no harm of him at all. It just messed up how this happened."

The family had planned to see the video at 11:30 a.m. ET. But an hour before the meeting they were informed of an unexpected delay. Harry Daniels, one of the lawyers for the Brown family, said he received an email at 10:29 a.m. on Monday from Pasquotank County Attorney Michael Cox that redactions were being made to the video.

"I was told by the district attorney that the family will get to see the raw footage, not the redacted version," Daniels said. "These county administrators are walking back the promises they have made. Show the tape. If you ain't got nothing to hide, show the tape."

The family members were allowed into the sheriff's department just after 3 p.m., but officials refused to let most of their attorneys watch the video with them because they are not members of the North Carolina Bar Association. Elizabeth City attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter was eventually allowed to watch the footage with Brown's relatives.

One of the family's out-of-state attorneys, Bakari Sellers, claimed that when he and other lawyers protested and demanded to be allowed to watch the video, Cox allegedly berated him and told him, "I'm not going to be f------ bullied."

"We do not feel that we got transparency. We only saw a snippet of the incident. They determined what was pertinent," said Ben Crump, one of the attorneys representing the Brown family.

Cox released a statement Monday saying that while state law allows the county to show the body camera video to Brown's family in private, state law "also allows us to blur some faces on the video and that process takes time."

"This may be done when necessary to protect an active internal investigation," Cox said in his statement.

Lassiter said she and the family members watched the video clip multiple times and made copious notes.

"Let's be clear, this was an execution," Cherry-Lassiter said. "Andrew Brown was in his driveway. The sheriff truck blocked him in his driveway so he could not exit his driveway. Andrew had his hands on his steering wheel. He was not reaching for anything. He wasn't touching anything. He wasn't throwing anything around. He had his hands firmly on the steering wheel."

She said the video clip began with deputies running up to his vehicle shooting. She said she counted five deputies on the driver's side of the car firing at Brown while screaming obscenities and ordering him to show his hands.

"He still sat there in his vehicle with his hands on the steering wheel while being shot at," Cherry-Lassiter said.

She said Brown eventually tried to get away to save his own life. He backed out of the driveway, maneuvering around the sheriff's truck and away from the deputies.

"There was at no time in the 20 seconds we saw where he was threatening the officers in any kind of way," Cherry-Lassiter said. "He was trying to evade being shot."

She said the deputies ran after the vehicle and continued to fire at Brown as he drove a short distance and crashed into a tree.

"They were still shooting at him after the car had already crashed into the tree," she said.

Brown was pronounced dead at the scene.

"We saw one video, 20 seconds from bodycam. There were at least eight officers there. We only saw one bodycam," Cherry-Lassiter said.

Seven Pasquotank County deputies involved in the shooting that erupted last Wednesday morning in Elizabeth City have been placed on administrative leave while the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation probes the circumstances of the deadly encounter. The names of the deputies have not been released.

In advance of the viewing by Brown's family, Elizabeth City Mayor Bettie Parker declared astate of emergencyfor her city on Monday morning. The emergency declaration went into effect at 8 a.m. and Parker said it will last "until deemed no longer necessary."

Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II said he is hoping file a motion asking a judge for permission to release the video to the public.

"It seems likely that the video and audio footage will be released in the very near future. In order to ensure the safety of our citizens and their property, City officials realize there may potentially be a period of civil unrest within the city following the public release of that footage," Parker, who is Black, said.

City offices in Elizabeth City, the county seat of Pasquotank County, were closed on Monday and government meetings, including a budget work session, were canceled.

Parker's order came despite peaceful protests that have occurred for five straight days in Elizabeth City since Brown's death.

The Pasquotank County Sheriff Department has released few details of the shooting in the town of 18,000 people.

The shooting unfolded about 8:30 a.m. on April 21 when deputies from Pasquotank and Dare Counties went to Brown's home to attempt to serve an arrest warrant on Brown that stemmed from a felony drug investigation, officials said.

Deputies opened fire on Brown's car as he attempted to drive away from his home. A first responder was recorded on 911 dispatch saying Brown was shot in the back.

Attorneys for Brown's family said he was shot in the back of the head and they plan to commission an independent autopsy.

Wooten declined to say how many deputies discharged their weapons.

The shooting occurred one day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man.

Brown's family said police found no weapons nor drugs in Brown's vehicle or home.

Wooten promised to be transparent about what occurred at Brown's home.

"If any of my deputies broke any laws or violated any policies that come out through this investigation, they will be held accountable," Wooten said.