April 24 (UPI) -- Civil rights leaders called for the resignation of Sheriff Tommy Wooten in North Carolina's Pasquotank County Saturday after deputies from his office shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr. while serving warrants at the man's home Wednesday.
Keith Rivers, the president of the Pasquotank County Chapter of the NAACP, held a press conference Saturday criticizing Wooten for failing to release body camera footage of the shooting, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.
"The district attorney and the sheriff are elected and they have an obligation to us to let us see what is on those tapes," Rivers said. "You have an obligation to this family. Let them know."
Brown's family said they met with Wooten's office Friday but were not shown the body camera footage of his death, CNN reported.
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