Andrew Brown Jr. shooting: BLM protesters stage 'economic boycott' in Elizabeth City, NC
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Black Lives Matter protesters threatened with an "economic boycott" in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on Wednesday, after a local prosecutor announced that the deputies who shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr. last month while serving drug-related search and arrest warrants will not be charged.
For the economic boycott scheduled for Wednesday, protesters aim to not spend money in Pasquotank County in order to put pressure on Womble to call on a special prosecutor to take a second look at the investigation into Brown’s death, WAVY reported. Pasquotank NAACP President Keith Rivers shot back that the deputies’ actions "were unjustifiable" in the shooting of Brown. "If this is looked at through the lens of the victim, which is Andrew Brown Jr. and his family — and not the justification of the sheriff’s deputies actions — that this should go forth to a grand jury and let them decide whether or not it needs to be in the courts," Rivers told WAVY.More Related News
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