North Carolina judge denies public release of body camera videos in fatal shooting of Andrew Brown

North Carolina Judge denies public release of body-camera video in fatal shooting of Andrew Brown

A judge has denied a request from a North Carolina county sheriff and multiple media outlets to immediately release the body camera videos purporting to show sheriff's deputies fatally shooting Andrew Brown, a 42-year-old Black man. Pasquotank County Superior Court Judge Jeff Foster issued his ruling after hearing arguments for and against releasing the videos, including a plea from the local district attorney to reject the request because it could jeopardize the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation's ongoing probe of the deadly April 21 confrontation outside Brown's home in Elizabeth City. While Foster said the videos will not be publicly released, he found that Brown's family, specifically his adult son, Khalil Ferebee, should be allowed to see all of the footage. But he wants at least 30 days to pass to give investigators time to complete their probe. The judge ordered that all faces and other potentially identifying features such as badges and name tags be blurred out in the footage. Pasquotank County authorities informed Foster that there are four different body camera videos and a police dash-cam video that capture the shooting.