Members of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP met with Justice Department officials Thursday to request that they investigate the April shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr.
Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by Pasquotank County deputies in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as they were attempting to serve a warrant for his arrest. Nearly a month after Brown's death, Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble concluded that the shooting -- which Brown's family classifies as an execution -- was justified, saying Brown"recklessly" drove at the officers on scene while trying to flee arrest."Mr.
While Garland wasn't scheduled to be in the meeting Thursday with nearly a dozen NAACP delegates, Justice Department officials like newly confirmed Civil Rights Division leader Kristen Clarke and Gupta were in attendance, the Rev. Dr. T Anthony Spearman, the president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, said at a news conference after the meeting. Spearman said the meeting -- which lasted beyond the time slot it had been scheduled for -- went"exceedingly well.
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